The following appeared in a letter to the school board in the town of Centerville.
"All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School. In the past two years, several accidents in and around Centerville have involved teenage drivers. Since a number of parents in Centerville have complained that they are too busy to teach their teenagers to drive, some other instruction is necessary to ensure that these teenagers are safe drivers. Although there are two driving schools in Centerville, parents on a tight budget cannot afford to pay for driving instruction. Therefore an effective and mandatory program sponsored by the high school is the only solution to this serious problem."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
As per the letter on the school board in the town of Centerville, it is mentioned that all students should take the course to learn the driving at Centerville High school. In the past couple of years, many accidents are reported where teenage drivers were seen involved. Additionally, parents of teenagers are not able to teach their children due to time constraints, might be due to work -life balance and unable to pay for driving course. So better way to resolve this problem can be the program sponsored by High School. This looks like very logical approach to solve the issue but on the closer look, there are some loopholes can be found.
First, the mentioned driving education course is mandatory for all students at Centerville High School but the references of any kind previous analysis of the surveys or collected data from those surveys have not been provided, which can justify accidents happened in the past are due negligence of teenagers. Authorities just assumed based on past few records that teenagers are responsible for accidents, which id quite unfair. It can be purely coincidence that they found involved in the accidents. Secondly, though this is a good initiative taken high school to provide a driving instruction, there is no records provided of the past trainings attended by teenagers from the town. Based on that information, teenagers and their parents can decide further whether they need this course or not.
Thirdly, as parents are unable to afford to pay for driving course, it can be very common that they are skeptical to enroll teenagers there. Eventually it will be expensive program for High School to sponsor if students don’t attend the same. It will increase the fees of the high school. Hence, the program for the students cannot be a solution as it will heavily affect the budget of students and letter does not provide any solution for this problem.
Lastly, another problem I could see that nobody can determine that rate of accidents will be mitigated at large scale even after the course. Additionally, accidents cannot be considered as only teenager’s fault, each time. They are aggressive and vulnerable due to their age. Therefore it is very much possible that even after enrolling and completing this course of driving education, they can be caught up in accidents due to rash driving or many other reasons. Therefore, the suggestion mentioned in the letter can be completely negated and better and affordable solutions needs to be provided by authorities of town of Centerville.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 423 350
No. of Characters: 2069 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.535 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.891 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.599 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.263 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.711 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.526 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.491 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.054 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
As per the letter on the school board in...
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Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...there are some loopholes can be found. First, the mentioned driving education c...
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Line 2, column 607, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are no records'?
Suggestion: there are no records
...chool to provide a driving instruction, there is no records provided of the past trainings attended...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...whether they need this course or not. Thirdly, as parents are unable to afford...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rovide any solution for this problem. Lastly, another problem I could see that...
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Line 4, column 292, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...essive and vulnerable due to their age. Therefore it is very much possible that even afte...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, if, lastly, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2123.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 422.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0308056872 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69499214051 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495260663507 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 657.0 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.7277294232 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.736842105 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2105263158 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42105263158 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27261851908 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907467346776 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107078352099 0.0701772020484 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18038982587 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.07266321852 0.0628817314937 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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