The following appeared in a letter sent by a committee of homeowners from the Deerhaven Acres to all homeowners in Deerhaven Acres.
"Seven years ago, homeowners in nearby Brookville community adopted a set of restrictions on how the community's yards should be landscaped and what colors the exteriors of homes should be painted. Since then, average property values have tripled in Brookville. In order to raise property values in Deerhaven Acres, we should adopt our own set of restrictions on
landscaping and house painting."
In this letter a committee of Deerhaven Acres homeowners recommends that in order to enhance Deerhaven property values homeowners should follow certain restrictions concerning their homes' exterior appearance. To support this recommendation the committee points out that in the seven years since Brookville adopted similar restrictions property values there have risen. This argument rests on a series of unsubstantiated assumptions, and is therefore unpersuasive as it stands.
A threshold assumption upon which the recommendation relies is that Brookville home owners implemented Brookville's restrictions in the first place. The letter fails to substantiate this crucial assumption. If these restrictions were not implemented, then any change in Brookville's property values cannot be attributed to them. Accordingly, the committee cannot draw any firm conclusion about what effect similar restrictions would have on Deerhaven property values.
Even assuming that BrookviUe homeowners implemented these restrictions, the committee relies on the additional assumption that this course of action was responsible for the increase in Brookville property values. However, it is entirely possible that one or more other factors were instead responsible for the increase, especially since a considerable period of time has passed since Brookville adopted its restrictions. Property values are a function of supply and demand. Perhaps the demand for housing in the area has increased due to an influx of major employers. Or, perhaps the supply of housing has decreased. Either scenario would provide an alternative explanation for the increase in property values.
Even if it is assumed that BrookviUe's rising property values are attributable to the implementation of these restrictions, the committee fails to consider possible differences between Brookville and Deerhaven that might help to bring about a different result for Deer haven. For instance, potential Deerhaven home-buyers might be less interested in a home's
exterior appearance than Brookville home-bwers. For that matter, perhaps Deerhaven home-buyers would find consistent exterior appearance a distasteful feature in which case adopting these restrictions might actually tend to decrease Deer-haven property values. Without accounting for these and other possible dissimilarities, the committee cannot assume that what resulted in rising property values in Brookville would bring about the same result in Deerhaven.
In conclusion, to persuade me that Deerhaven should adopt the proposed restrictions the committee must supply clear evidence that the implementation of Brookville's restrictions, and not some other factor, was responsible for the rise in Brookville's property values. The committee must also provide evidence that other factors affecting home prices in the two areas are otherwise essentially the same.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 413 350
No. of Characters: 2433 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.508 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.891 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.178 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 200 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 153 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 130 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 95 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.737 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.25 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.526 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.358 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.567 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 323, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'restrictions'' or 'restriction's'?
Suggestion: restrictions'; restriction's
... years since Brookville adopted similar restrictions property values there have risen. This ...
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Line 5, column 353, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...crease, especially since a considerable period of time has passed since Brookville adopted its...
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Line 7, column 350, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a home' or simply 'homes'?
Suggestion: a home; homes
...home-buyers might be less interested in a homes exterior appearance than Brookville ho...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, also, but, first, however, if, so, then, therefore, for instance, in conclusion, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2478.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 413.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.0 5.12650576532 117% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.22265568692 2.78398813304 116% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479418886199 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 755.1 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.5288557143 57.8364921388 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.421052632 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7368421053 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42105263158 5.70786347227 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.205795398872 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0678625977082 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0738643861148 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124916918344 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0709008263216 0.0628817314937 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 14.3799401198 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.52 12.5979740519 139% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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