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.
The memorandum from Mayor's office aims at building the multi-million dollar subway system. Although the plan thought out is better for every individual, it has a few sour spots which might hinder the plan.
Firsly, the planned path for subway is to serve in major areas where buses are only form of transportation. Although, it might serve as another means for the people to travel from these regions, it does not serve any useful purpose. Public transportation will always work the way it worked before. The subway line will only serve to decrease the number of passengers of bus, and not the traffic caused by it.
Secondly, as the arguement largly focuses on the buses, there is very little mention of the cause of congestion in Briggsville. The usual culprits in a traffic congestion are private vehicles travelling through the roadways. If the subway line is served in the regions of heavy congestion for the above private vehicle owners, then and only then would it serve useful in decreasing the traffic congestion.
And lastly, there is no statistical data shown along with the memorandum to accompany that the safety issues in a bus ride are responsible in increased congestion in any way. The idea of a person who has started using his/her vehicle to stay safe from the safety issues in the bus could be infered, but there is no data to go along with. But it could also be inferred that the said person started commmute either by bicycle or carpooling with a colleague, which would not increase any congestion on the road. There are many ambiguities associated with it.
In order to relieve Briggsville of it's notorious traffic congestion, the Mayor's office need to lay out a carefully thought out plan for the metro system, which should be backed by the data of the places with more congestion and other reasons for it's increase rather than wasting time on rhetoric such as buses
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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: 14 15
No. of Words: 326 350
No. of Characters: 1539 1500
No. of Different Words: 168 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.249 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.721 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.527 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 108 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 70 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 43 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.541 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.429 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.316 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.604 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.065 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1578.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 325.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.85538461538 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60224027289 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.2772356615 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.714285714 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2142857143 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.70786347227 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.21882439219 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0786139656672 0.0743258471296 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0990551312752 0.0701772020484 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130468410185 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0783849544946 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => 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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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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