The following is a memorandum from the office of Mayor Harrison Smith Jones.
"In order to relieve Briggsville’s notorious traffic congestion, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones plans to build a multi-million dollar subway system. The subway will run through the major downtown areas, a part of the town where buses serve as the only form of public transportation. For years, residents have been complaining both about inconsistent buses, and the general lack of safety while riding the buses. Additionally, the subway will be running twenty-four hours a day. Since motorists will spend less time in traffic, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones expects to see an immediate increase in worker productivity, which will improve the economy of Briggsville."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
This memorandum from Mayor Harrison is commendable as it considers the plight of the citizens of Briggsville. However, the argument and the premise on which it is built are rife with flaws and gratuitous claims which render the recommendation unacceptable as a means to improve the economic state of the city.
Firstly, the argument makes an unwarranted assumption that citizens' time in traffic is the factor responsible for their low productivity. this is backed by the claim that reducing their time in traffic would immediately improve their work productivity. This claim fails to consider that not all workers go to work. For example, with the advent of technology, there is an increase in the number of workers who work from the comfort of their homes. Most tech workers now only require computer systems with stable power supply to work productivity. Therefore, there are other more important factors that affect worker productivity.
The argument also makes a specious assumption that public transportation is the only reason for the incessant traffic congestion. It further makes contradictions that the buses are not enough yet there is constant traffic congestion. This found in the claim that residents complain about the inconsistent buses. There are other factors that contribute to traffic congestion. For instance, there may be a higher percentage on non-commercial vehicles in on the roads. In this instance building a subway will not be a panacea for the incessant traffic connection. This renders the gratuitous assumption illogical and insufficient to back this reccommendation.
The argument also indirectly linked the poor economic state of the city to the traffic congestion observed. this is backed by the assumption that the increased worker productivity as a result of reduced traffic congestion will ultimately improve the economy of the city. there numerous other factors that affectbhe economy of the city such as revenue, corporate taxes and industrial development.
In conclusion, this recommendation by the mayor is specious because on further evaluation of the argument; the unwarranted association of the economic state of the city with the traffic congestion is not logical
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Comments
e-rater score report
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: 16 15
No. of Words: 344 350
No. of Characters: 1833 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.307 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.328 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.017 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.314 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.313 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.547 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: This
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
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Suggestion: There
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1876.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 344.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45348837209 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11365300667 2.78398813304 112% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.459302325581 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 584.1 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.574047849 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7368421053 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1052631579 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42105263158 5.70786347227 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.104743642351 0.218282227539 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0365157953415 0.0743258471296 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0487640786201 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0671308288012 0.128457276422 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0225291734183 0.0628817314937 36% => 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: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.03 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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