The following appeared in a recommendation from the planning department of the city of Transopolis."Ten years ago, as part of a comprehensive urban renewal program, the city of Transopolis adapted for industrial use a large area of severely substanda

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The following appeared in a recommendation from the planning department of the city of Transopolis.

"Ten years ago, as part of a comprehensive urban renewal program, the city of Transopolis adapted for industrial use a large area of severely substandard housing near the freeway. Subsequently, several factories were constructed there, crime rates in the area declined, and property tax revenues for the entire city increased. To further revitalize the city, we should now take similar action in a declining residential area on the opposite side of the city. Since some houses and apartments in existing nearby neighborhoods are currently unoccupied, alternate housing for those displaced by this action will be readily available."

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.

The writer argues that in order to revamp the city further, the area of declining residential houses must be adapted for the industrial use. It is based on the premises that similar action in opposite side of the city had led to the establishment of factories, reduction in crime rates, surge in property tax and the residents that are currently living in the houses that would be cleared for the industrial house would be accommodated in the unoccupied houses that are available on nearby neighbourhood. The argument seems true at first sight, however, on deeper analysis it becomes clear that certain relevant aspects have not been taken into account, leading to a number of unverified evidences and logical flaws.

First such unverified evidence is the analogy between the outcomes achieved 10 years ago and the outcome that are to be expected to come in the future. However, there may be the case that conditions which were conducive 10 years ago are not present today which would make the argument unreliable. For instance, the conditions of the city 10 years ago was such that there were no industries despite the city being in the proximity to the sea. The industries were established because industries were export intensive and senior management of these industries opined that establishing a unit near to the sea would reduce the costs in transporting the goods from land to the ports. But the conditions are today such that the opposite side is very far from the sea and the establishment of industries may not happen because this would increase the costs of transportation for them. Therefore, in order to make the argument more reliable, the writer should collect the evidences from the research study on what prompted the industries to establish their presence then and should also demonstrate that the conducive conditions for business are present in the opposite side of the city as well.

Secondly, the writer’s argument is incorrectly based on the unverified evidence of sample of people that are willing to relocate to the new houses. However, it is possible that these residents object to the idea of relocation or the number of unoccupied houses are fewer to accommodate all these people which would make the argument irrelevant. This can be exemplified by the desire of these people to continue to live in their existing location because from this location the distance to the city where these people go for work is less or all modes of transportation is available from their homes to their offices. But from the proposed location, even the road is not well paved which would make their travel unpleasant. Therefore, in order to make the argument more valid, the writer should assemble the evidences from the sample survey of these resident to know their willingness and should also prove that they are inclined to move to a new location without objections or protest.

Finally, the writer has assumed arbitrarily the analogy between establishment of factories and increase in taxes. However, there may be important reason that taxes had increased for other reasons except these factories which would make the argument significantly weak. This can be illustrated by that authorities increased the tax rates in order to compensate the losses made to the natural resources such as clearing of forests for the industrial land and damaging the environment by releasing the discharge in the nearby rivers by these industries. But at the proposed location, no such natural resources are present which may hinder the authorities to raise taxes. Therefore, in order to overcome this flaw, the writer should compile evidences from the authorities on the factors contributed to increase in taxes and should assert that same factors are also available in the proposed location.

After close examination of the argument presented, it is apparent that the argument as it stands now is considerably flawed due to its reliance on certain unverified evidences. The recommendations in the above paragraphs show how this argument may be strengthened and made more logically sound in order to evaluate the viability of the proposed measure.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, for instance, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.6327345309 188% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.9520958084 170% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 13.6137724551 191% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 28.8173652695 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 102.0 55.5748502994 184% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 16.3942115768 195% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3492.0 2260.96107784 154% => OK
No of words: 680.0 441.139720559 154% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13529411765 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.10654576214 4.56307096286 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81664870868 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 204.123752495 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.407352941176 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1123.2 705.55239521 159% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.0073358721 57.8364921388 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 166.285714286 119.503703932 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.380952381 23.324526521 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132400945944 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0473749185178 0.0743258471296 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0573763240126 0.0701772020484 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0730519822579 0.128457276422 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537625781478 0.0628817314937 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.0 14.3799401198 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 48.3550499002 63% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 12.197005988 139% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 152.0 98.500998004 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 19.0 11.9071856287 160% => 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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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 680 350
No. of Characters: 3418 1500
No. of Different Words: 273 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.107 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.026 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.748 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 238 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 189 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 147 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 90 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.381 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.512 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.762 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.328 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.538 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.108 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5