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 argument asserts that mayor harrison is planning to build a multi-million dollar subway system to reduce the traffic congestion Briggsville. The argument is based on some assumptions which have to be proved before building such a huge progect.Following paragraphs will explain what those assumptions are, and how those assumptions are going to affect the argument.
First of all the before starting such a huge a progect, we should consider whether is it actually neccessary or not. Mayor should try to encourage people adopt car pooling and should encourage companies to change timings, such that a lot employees who use that road at a same time will be reduced.A sagacious man would not come to a conclusion of building a subway to solve the traffic problem without considering any easier alternatives. The argument also ignores the increase of traffic congestion while constructing the subway. Completing such a huge task cannot be done in a short span, so there will be increase in traffic problems because of the construction work.
The argument did not mention on how to tackle that problem. The argument says about building the subway which will run through major downtown areas. It assumes that the traffic is more in those areas without any proper data, which is not mentioned in the argument.
The argument also assumes that once the subway is built major population uses that, by which there will be a reduction in the traffic. Before making such an assumption it should consider what percentage of the population in those areas are willing to use public transport(subway) for their daily commuting. The argument also mentions the lack of safety when riding in busses and it assumes the safety is improved when they travel in the subway. The Mayor have mention on how he is going to improve the safety measures in the subway.
The Mayor also assumes that the reduced work productivity is just because of people waiting more time in the traffic. There can be other reasons as well like the offices might not be paying their employes properly ,etc. The argument says that it is gonna be a multi million dollar progect and it fails to mention if the government have that kind of money to build it.
So constructing such a huge project with out considering all the points mentioned above will be a ingenuous move. Proper data should be provided supporting the assumptions made in the argument. Only after validating those, such a huge project should be started.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: The argument asserts that mayor harrison is planning to build a multi-million dollar subway system to reduce the traffic congestion Briggsville.
Error: harrison Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: The argument is based on some assumptions which have to be proved before building such a huge progect.Following paragraphs will explain what those assumptions are, and how those assumptions are going to affect the argument.
Error: progect Suggestion: project
Sentence: First of all the before starting such a huge a progect, we should consider whether is it actually neccessary or not.
Error: progect Suggestion: project
Error: neccessary Suggestion: necessary
Sentence: Before making such an assumption it should consider what percentage of the population in those areas are willing to use public transportsubway for their daily commuting.
Error: transportsubway Suggestion: transport subway
Sentence: There can be other reasons as well like the offices might not be paying their employes properly ,etc. The argument says that it is gonna be a multi million dollar progect and it fails to mention if the government have that kind of money to build it.
Error: progect Suggestion: project
Error: employes Suggestion: employed
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 418 350
No. of Characters: 2022 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.522 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.837 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.621 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.665 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.359 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 248, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Following
...ved before building such a huge progect.Following paragraphs will explain what those assu...
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Line 3, column 298, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: A
...hat road at a same time will be reduced.A sagacious man would not come to a concl...
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Line 3, column 506, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the increase of traffic congestion while constructing the subway. Completing such...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... the safety measures in the subway. The Mayor also assumes that the reduced wor...
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Line 8, column 154, Rule ID: AS_ADJ_AS[1]
Message: Comparison is written "as well 'as'".
Suggestion: as
...fic. There can be other reasons as well like the offices might not be paying their e...
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Line 8, column 214, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ht not be paying their employes properly ,etc. The argument says that it is gonna ...
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Line 10, column 37, Rule ID: WITH_OUT[1]
Message: This word is usually written together. Did you mean 'without'?
Suggestion: without
... So constructing such a huge project with out considering all the points mentioned ab...
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Line 10, column 97, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... all the points mentioned above will be a ingenuous move. Proper data should be p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, if, may, so, well, while, 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: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2068.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 416.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97115384615 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72181206364 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478365384615 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 639.0 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.7790359674 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.842105263 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8947368421 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.68421052632 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17047441944 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0655814884036 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0824212775803 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100514373767 0.128457276422 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0554106918968 0.0628817314937 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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