The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper."Membership in Oak City's Civic Club---a club whose primary objective is to discuss local issues---should continue to be restricted to people who live in Oak City.

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The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper.

"Membership in Oak City's Civic Club---a club whose primary objective is to discuss local issues---should continue to be restricted to people who live in Oak City. People who work-in Oak City but who live elsewhere cannot truly understand the business and politics of the city. It is important to restrict membership to city residents because only residents pay city taxes and therefore only residents understand how the money could best be used to improve the city. At any rate, restricting membership in this way is unlikely to disappoint many of the nonresidents employed in Oak City, since neighboring Elm City's Civic Club has always had an open membership policy, and only twenty-five nonresidents have joined Elm City's Club in the last ten years."

The author of this argument recommends that Committee should only allow residents in the city to be its memberships. To justify the recommendation, the author provides the following fact. Oak City residents pay city taxes, so they must able to be members of committee. In addition, in a recent meeting one who cites foolish objections, this show that they can not fully understand business and politics in the city. Therefore, if all members of committee are residents, the city will be better place for living and working. Scrutiny each of these facts, however, reveals that none of them lend credible supports to the recommendation.

First, the author mentions that none-residents members cannot comprehend the conditions, because a member who does not live in city has foolish idea. Nonetheless, it is entirely possible the idea of this non-resident member was logically, while other member could not comprehend it. In addition, the idea may put other members’ interest in the line. Moreover, if their idea was foolish, the author cannot generalize their conclusion to other all non-resident members in committee. Without considering these possible scenarios, the author cannot conclude that non-resident members can not understand business and policies in the city.

Second, the author claims that committee must be consisted of members, who live in the city, because they pay city taxes. However, letter fails to adequately support the claim that since only residents pay local taxes only they truly understand local business and political issues. In fact, it is quite possible most of people do not have enough knowledge about business and politicians, or even residents pay more attention on their profits instead to vote idea, which benefits for the city. Since the author provides no information of cause-and-effect relationship in this matter, his assertion can not unacceptable.

In the third place, the author climes residents can live and in a better condition, if all members in committee live in the city. Nevertheless, it is not necessarily the case. Progress of the city depend many factors such as industrial factories, educated members of committee, and economic conditions.

In sum, the argument is flawed logically and therefore unconvincing it stands. To strengthen the argument, the author must provide information about what a non-resident member cited in the committee. In order to evaluate better the conclusion it would be better to know more about the city’s condition, and its facilities.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 313, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the people') or simply say ''most people''.
Suggestion: most of the people; most people
...l issues. In fact, it is quite possible most of people do not have enough knowledge about busi...
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Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'nonetheless', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'third', 'while', 'in addition', 'in fact', 'such as', 'in the third place']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.263043478261 0.25644967241 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.121739130435 0.15541462614 78% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0826086956522 0.0836205057962 99% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0630434782609 0.0520304965353 121% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0369565217391 0.0272364105082 136% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.117391304348 0.125424944231 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0152173913043 0.0416121511921 37% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 3.01516280165 2.79052419416 108% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0217391304348 0.026700313972 81% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.102173913043 0.113004496875 90% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0326086956522 0.0255425247493 128% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0108695652174 0.0127820249294 85% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2537.0 2731.13054187 93% => OK
No of words: 397.0 446.07635468 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.39042821159 6.12365571057 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.39798488665 0.378187486979 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.309823677582 0.287650121315 108% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.249370277078 0.208842608468 119% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.173803526448 0.135150697306 129% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01516280165 2.79052419416 108% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 207.018472906 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491183879093 0.469332199767 105% => OK
Word variations: 53.3026377156 52.1807786196 102% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.039408867 105% => OK
Sentence length: 18.9047619048 23.2022227129 81% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.7199995429 57.7814097925 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.80952381 141.986410481 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9047619048 23.2022227129 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.809523809524 0.724660767414 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 49.8871296629 51.9672348444 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.78431372549 1.8405768891 97% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.389162087804 0.441005458295 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.109730971404 0.135418324435 81% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0610570900575 0.0829849096947 74% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.55309479526 0.58762219726 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.10598260478 0.147661913831 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161543685551 0.193483328276 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0682585649584 0.0970749176394 70% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.412578618402 0.42659136922 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.018519392504 0.0774707102158 24% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.27538738944 0.312017818177 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0374513078228 0.0698173142475 54% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 6.46551724138 124% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 14.657635468 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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