The following appeared in a memo from the Mayor of the city of Hillview: " In order to alleviate the serious unemployment problem in our town, we should encourage Autotech to build its automobile manufacturing plant in our area. The Hillview landfill, whi

The mayor of the city of Hill view claims that Auto Tech should be encouraged to build its automobile manufacturing plant in Hillview, as this will help in alleviating the problem of unemployment in the town.He further suggests that the landfill which has been undeveloped for decades is a perfect site for this plant. According to his memo, such a facility will provide employment to thousands of Hillview residents who were left unemployed after Computech abandoned its national facility last year.He also suggests that urging the City Council, to authorize a large campaign to attract Autotech and to offer significant tax incentives will make Hillview an apt choice for the car manufacturing company.

Though the message the author tries to convey in his memo is conspicuous, the way he goes about it is flawed.At first glance, the argument seems cogent and convincing, but on closer inspection, we find that it is facile and specious.

At the very outset, the Mayor needs to answer the questions pertaining to the development of the landfill as the perfect site for the plant.IS the landfill huge enough in terms of size to accommodate the land requirement of a behemoth car manufacturing unit?Is the land firm and strong enough to bear the weights of huge machinery that will be placed over it for assembling the cars; since it is a land filled area?Had the mayor presented substantive evidence, corroborating his claim that the landfill is the perfect site for the manufacturing plant, his argument would have been tenable.

Further, he needs to assess the skill set of the people of Hillview who are unemployed now.If they were earlier employed in a software development company, are they willing to unlearn and learn the prerequisites for the car manufacturing company? Moreover, does Autotech actually need thousands of people for its new facility?Nowadays most of the car manufacturing processes are automated, with minimal involvement of humans, so will the new venture, actually generate employment?So, how is Autotech going to alleviate the problem of unemployment?

To bolster his argument, the mayor should have given us more information about what exactly does Autotech look for when it wants to set up a new plant,This information would be paramount in evaluating his proposition of offering tax benefits to the company, and also help us analyse and understand the efficacy of investment in the large campaign to attract Autotech to Hillview. If Autotech emphasizes on ease of accessibility to domestic markets, or well-connectivity with the rest of the cities, or easy procurement of raw materials as factors that influence its choice of a plant site, only tax benefits may not be lucrative enough for it to set up a plant in Hillview.

Thus, though the Mayor tries his best to raise advocate for encouraging Autotech to choose Hill View for setting up its manufacturing unit, his argument is filled with unwarranted assumptions, and many questions need to be answered. There is no conclusive information in his memo to espouse his view that Autotech will alleviate the serious unemployment problem that is plaguing his town.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, look, may, moreover, so, thus, well

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2648.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 512.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.171875 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75682846001 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0647213723 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486328125 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 819.9 705.55239521 116% => 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: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 51.0 22.8473053892 223% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 113.456599632 57.8364921388 196% => OK
Chars per sentence: 264.8 119.503703932 222% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 51.2 23.324526521 220% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 6.7 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
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Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.242977434166 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1114055142 0.0743258471296 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0648699124656 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126200142951 0.128457276422 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.075208400199 0.0628817314937 120% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 28.5 14.3799401198 198% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 19.71 48.3550499002 41% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 7.1628742515 204% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 23.2 12.197005988 190% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.59 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.9 8.32208582834 119% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 31.0 12.3882235529 250% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 22.4 11.1389221557 201% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 31.0 11.9071856287 260% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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argument 1 -- OK

argument 2 -- OK

argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 522 350
No. of Characters: 2582 1500
No. of Different Words: 246 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.78 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.946 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.923 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 178 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 148 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 115 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 67 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 47.455 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.608 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.41 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.768 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.161 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5