The following is a letter to the editor of the Waymarsh Times.
"Traffic here in Waymarsh is becoming a problem. Although just three years ago a state traffic survey showed that the typical driving commuter took 20 minutes to get to work, the commute now takes closer to 40 minutes, according to the survey just completed. Members of the town council already have suggested more road building to address the problem, but as well as being expensive, the new construction will surely disrupt some of our residential neighborhoods. It would be better to follow the example of the nearby city of Garville. Last year Garville implemented a policy that rewards people who share rides to work, giving them coupons for free gas. Pollution levels in Garville have dropped since the policy was implemented, and people from Garville tell me that commuting times have fallen considerably. There is no reason why a policy like Garville's shouldn't work equally well in Waymarsh."
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 author states that there are traffic problem in the Waymarsh and new policy has been proposed to address this issue but the author argues that in some other city a different policy has been implemented to address similar kind of issue and such policy should fit better in the Waymarsh city rather than the current policy which has been proposed. At first glance, this argument looks logical but if assessed carefully, this author's argument based on assumptions and rife with flaws.
First of all, the author assumes that the current road building proposal would disrupt the residential neighbourhoods. But did there any survey take place where it evaluates this problem? if there are any chances of disruption how much is it? The author did not provide here that information. The author needs to answer those questions to support his claim. Maybe it is the author's own imagination that disrupt may happen or maybe it is a very small area where disrupt may happen which is negligible.
Secondly, the author compares a policy which has been implemented in Garville city. But we do not have any information about the type of two cities. It is possible that both the cities are completely different in nature and the policy which was implemented in Granville cannot be done in Waymarsh. We need more information about those two cities to state the fact that the policy which was implemented in Granville will work better in Waymarsh as well.
Furthermore, in this argument, the author states people of Garville told him that the commuting times have fallen considerably. But we do not know the number of people. The author did not give any information from how many people he got that information. Maybe the number of people is very less and probably the policy only worked for their favor but for the majority of the people it did not make any difference or maybe the new policy made other people's situation even worse. In this case, such the information is inaccurate.
Lastly, Author's claim that the building new road is expensive but is it more expensive than providing free gas coupons which are implemented in Garville city. We do not have any information about this. And also author says pollution levels of Granville city have dropped after the new policy implementation. But the author did not provide any statistics from where he got that information. Maybe he is referring to some wrong source where it shows pollution levels have dropped but actually, nothing happened or maybe it became worse.
To conclude, maybe author's claim is correct but to prove his claim as valid he needs to provide certain information and answer above queries. Without further information, it can not be stated that the policy which was introduced in Garville will work better in Waymatsh than the proposed one.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 474 350
No. of Characters: 2292 1500
No. of Different Words: 203 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.666 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.835 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.506 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 159 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.609 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.694 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.696 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.552 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.156 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 43, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'problems'?
Suggestion: problems
...he author states that there are traffic problem in the Waymarsh and new policy has been...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 190, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
... place where it evaluates this problem? if there are any chances of disruption how...
^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...isrupt may happen which is negligible. Secondly, the author compares a policy w...
^^^^
Line 7, column 450, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'peoples'' or 'people's'?
Suggestion: peoples'; people's
...ence or maybe the new policy made other peoples situation even worse. In this case, suc...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, if, lastly, look, may, second, secondly, so, well, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 13.6137724551 169% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2349.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 474.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95569620253 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66599839874 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58245428375 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432489451477 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 742.5 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 67.2867000231 57.8364921388 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.875 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.75 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.70833333333 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0672488979866 0.218282227539 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0197596535085 0.0743258471296 27% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.029584682009 0.0701772020484 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0387210317494 0.128457276422 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0199531843782 0.0628817314937 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.24 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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