The following is a petition to the city council of Centerville:
"Over the past three years, there has been a marked increase in cases of 'sidewalk rage,' similar to the irrational anger drivers experience on the road, but instead among sidewalk walkers. The result is an increase in assaults, property damage, and disruptions of normal pedestrian traffic. In order to address this growing problem, the council must ban cell phone use on sidewalks. Not only do people texting or using their phones slow down pedestrian traffic, but they are also more likely to walk into the road or bump into other walkers. Children are especially vulnerable because they are too short to be easily seen. Middletown passed such a ban and not only have they heard no complaints, but the reported incidents of sidewalk crime has gone down significantly."
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 petition to the city council states that there should be a ban of the use of cellphones while walking on the sidewalk, stating that this will result in reduction of the number of sidewalk crimes in Centerville. This petition has a series of unsubstantiated claims and is therefore unconvincing as it stands.
Firstly, the author assumes that Middletown had imposed the ban because it was facing the same issue as Centerville, there exists a strong possibility that the ban was imposed because people were using the phones while crossing the roads, which led to a high number of accidents and deaths, and thus a ban was imposed so that pedestrians focus on the road and a large number of lives are saved. The reduce in number of reported incidents of sidewalk crime might be a cherry on the top of the cake. More detailed review on the reason for the ban in Middletown is needed in order to make a comparison.
Secondly, there is no reason mentioned for the sidewalk rage, it is clearly assumed that people, while using their phones are just clashing and a minor clash turns into a fight causing property damage, it is also possible that the rage occurs because there are a large number of pickpocketers, chain snatchers, thieves on the street which make an attempt to steal and might be noticed and then chased, the chase might lead to disruption of property as well. If this is the case, then strict laws and penalties have to be imposed in order for the rages to reduce.
Thirdly, the city might also be in a state of turmoil and there might be violent clashes between different groups going on, in such a case, the use of mobile phone is completely irrelevant. The ban even if it is imposed, might not be beneficial at all.
Additionally, it is also possible that the sidewalks are very narrow and on that there might be stalls outside the shops, blocking the shops' entrance, this might lead to conflicts between the shop owners and the stall owners daily, due to which a high number of rages are reported. In such a case, the stalls should be relocated in order to achieve the desired result.
Due the following reasons, the argument stands flawed and the decision can be made thoroughly only after a clarity has been provided on the doubts stated above. There needs to be a detailed report in order to make a right decision which will solve the issue being faced.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 361, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... that pedestrians focus on the road and a large number of lives are saved. The reduce in number o...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 396, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... and a large number of lives are saved. The reduce in number of reported incidents of side...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 262, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... that the rage occurs because there are a large number of pickpocketers, chain snatchers, thieves...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1966.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 422.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65876777251 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51548069655 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478672985782 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 618.3 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => 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: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 120.033230113 57.8364921388 208% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 151.230769231 119.503703932 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.4615384615 23.324526521 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.53846153846 5.70786347227 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.101639368066 0.218282227539 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.041250744586 0.0743258471296 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389247029768 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0600076710457 0.128457276422 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0405414995044 0.0628817314937 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.3799401198 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 48.3550499002 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.34 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 361, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... that pedestrians focus on the road and a large number of lives are saved. The reduce in number o...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 396, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... and a large number of lives are saved. The reduce in number of reported incidents of side...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 262, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... that the rage occurs because there are a large number of pickpocketers, chain snatchers, thieves...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1966.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 422.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65876777251 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51548069655 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478672985782 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 618.3 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => 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: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 120.033230113 57.8364921388 208% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 151.230769231 119.503703932 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.4615384615 23.324526521 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.53846153846 5.70786347227 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.101639368066 0.218282227539 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.041250744586 0.0743258471296 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389247029768 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0600076710457 0.128457276422 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0405414995044 0.0628817314937 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.3799401198 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 48.3550499002 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.34 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.