The following appears in a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg News:
"The tufted groundhog lives in the coastal wetlands of West Lansburg. Ancient records suggest that the tufted groundhog once numbered in the millions. Since they were declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2004, development along the coastal wetlands has been prohibited. Now local development interests are lobbying for the West Lansburg council to allow an access road to be built along the edge of wetlands. Neighboring Eastern Carpenteria, which had a similar sanctuary, has seen its sea otter population decline since the repeal of its sanctuary status in
1978. In order to preserve the region's biodiversity and ensure a healthy environment, the West Lansburg council should not allow the road to be built."
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.
In a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg News, a claim appears that the West Lansburg council should not allow the road to be built along the edge of the wetlands. The author claims that, a similar situation was seen in the Neighbouring Eastern Carpenteria, where the sea otter population was declined due to repeal of santuary staus and hence, if a road is built across wetlands of West Lansburg, same is meant to happen to the tufted groundhog living there. While the author's contention is logical considering the cosequences he stated to the neighbouring santuary, his arguments are rife with assumptions and flaws. They are not backed by any evidence, thus we are not in a position to conclude without futher information. The following evidence are required to back up the arguments made:
Firstly, the author bases his argument on the ancient records of the groundhog. He says that the ancient records suggest, the tufted groundhogs once numbered in millions in the wetlands of West Lansburg. He does not provide us with the information of the recent population of the animals living. There is a possibilty that, there are very few number of groundhogs left in the wetlands, or even the groundhogs are extinct. we are not aware of the fact. In this regards, a valid and accurate evidence on the current population of the tufted groundhogs living in the wetlands of West Lansburg is required to make an assessemt of the further arguments made by him.
Secondly, he argues that the sea otter population in Eastern Carpenteria has been decliend since the repeal of the sanctuary status. There is no concrete evidence backing up this assumption. We are unaware of the comparision scale that the author is considering currently. He says there has been a decline in the population of sea otter, but decline compared to when? Is it decline in population compared to millions of year ago, or a decade ago, or few months ago? We are unsure about this fact.
Thus, on procuring the exact intention of the author and facts regarding the same, we may be in a better position to validate the claim
Lastly, he claims that, in the neighbouring Eastern Carpenteria, which had a santuary, has seen its sea otter population decline since the repeal of the sanctuary status.
He has clearly made two assumptions here. First, he assumed that the decline in the sea otter population is due to the repeal of the santuary status. There could be many other reasons like the climate change, or the improper maintainence of the santuary, etc. Second, he makes an asumption that the repeal of the sanctuary status mean, there was development of along the sanctuary, like bulding road or other infrastructural activities. To validate this argument we require evidence on the actual underlying reasons on the decine of the sea otters and report on the developmental activites that have taken place around the sanctuary, since its repeal.
Hence, we are not in a position to conclude on the validity of the claim made by the author in this letter to the News editor. We require evidence on the current population of the groundhogs living in the West Lansburg, sea otter population trend in the past year, and proof that climatic conditions or other factors did not effect the decline in the sea otter population and only the developmental activities around had led to its decline. On collating such facts, we may take a forstance on the given prompt.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 478, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ufted groundhog living there. While the authors contention is logical considering the c...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 340, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'few numbers'.
Suggestion: few numbers
...re is a possibilty that, there are very few number of groundhogs left in the wetlands, or ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 423, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: We
...ds, or even the groundhogs are extinct. we are not aware of the fact. In this rega...
^^
Line 2, column 456, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...tinct. we are not aware of the fact. In this regards, a valid and accurate evidence ...
^^^^
Line 7, column 325, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[6]
Message: Did you mean 'affect'?
Suggestion: affect
...tic conditions or other factors did not effect the decline in the sea otter population...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 94.0 55.5748502994 169% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 16.3942115768 195% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2854.0 2260.96107784 126% => OK
No of words: 586.0 441.139720559 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87030716724 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92010537223 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75717648241 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 204.123752495 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.409556313993 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 904.5 705.55239521 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 4.96107784431 343% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.5187875607 57.8364921388 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.16 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.44 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.56 5.70786347227 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241247877922 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0713134702502 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126682981899 0.0701772020484 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11698943811 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.143082556786 0.0628817314937 228% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 478, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ufted groundhog living there. While the authors contention is logical considering the c...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 340, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'few numbers'.
Suggestion: few numbers
...re is a possibilty that, there are very few number of groundhogs left in the wetlands, or ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 423, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: We
...ds, or even the groundhogs are extinct. we are not aware of the fact. In this rega...
^^
Line 2, column 456, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...tinct. we are not aware of the fact. In this regards, a valid and accurate evidence ...
^^^^
Line 7, column 325, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[6]
Message: Did you mean 'affect'?
Suggestion: affect
...tic conditions or other factors did not effect the decline in the sea otter population...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 94.0 55.5748502994 169% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 16.3942115768 195% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2854.0 2260.96107784 126% => OK
No of words: 586.0 441.139720559 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87030716724 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92010537223 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75717648241 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 204.123752495 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.409556313993 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 904.5 705.55239521 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 4.96107784431 343% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.5187875607 57.8364921388 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.16 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.44 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.56 5.70786347227 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241247877922 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0713134702502 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126682981899 0.0701772020484 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11698943811 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.143082556786 0.0628817314937 228% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.