One very important question that needs to be answered before implementing the recommendation that the city should eliminate funding for the Orchestra is that, what are the current financial statements of the Orchestra ?. There are enormous assumptions in the author's argument which can refute the claim that Symphony "can flourish without the money" provided by the City government.
First, it is necessary to ask what are the current percentage of Symphony's budget do the private contributions account for?. If the private contributions are a meagre percentage of the total operating expenses, say 5%, a 200% increase amounts for 10% of the total budget. Symphony won't be able to survive in such a scenario without the city's funding or from other sources. Another question that needs to be answered is whether the private contributions are due to a swarm of individual contributions or one giant contribution from a big celebrity ?. Such giant contributions can be exclusive and it is unlikely to obtain such contributions every year. Are the contributions received are from the people of Grandview City?
In similar reasoning, it needs to be answered, whether the increase in ticket prices is sufficient enough to account for the rest of the budget. How much does the ticket price need to be increased to cover the operating expenses of the Orchestra?. Are the people attending the "concerts-in-the-park" willing to pay the extra ticket price that will be charged?. More research needs to be done before it can be decided that the funding for the Orchestra needs to be stopped.
The author states that the symphony has been "struggling financially for many years", despite the funding from the city. The reason for the symphony's long financial struggle has to be researched before deciding to eliminate the funding based on a single year's performance. Maybe the increased popularity of the Symphony is due to Guest/Star appearances. This will raise some serious doubts about the increased popularity of the Orchestra in the upcoming years.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
more arguments wanted:
For these reasons, we recommend that the city eliminate funding for the Grandview Symphony Orchestra from next year's budget.
We predict that the symphony will flourish in the years to come even without funding from the city.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 332 350
No. of Characters: 1677 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.269 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.051 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.926 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 124 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.483 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.125 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 260, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
.... There are enormous assumptions in the authors argument which can refute the claim tha...
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Line 5, column 150, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...account for the rest of the budget. How much does the ticket price need to be increa...
^^^^
Line 7, column 266, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...eliminate the funding based on a single years performance. Maybe the increased popula...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 473, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...of the Orchestra in the upcoming years.
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, so, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1756.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 329.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33738601824 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.36059775253 2.78398813304 121% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489361702128 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.5228576171 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.75 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5625 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.875 5.70786347227 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.294702946276 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108117453359 0.0743258471296 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0842989186795 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186254209251 0.128457276422 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0627689692251 0.0628817314937 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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