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."
There are many aspects of the argument that are not supported by enough evidence. Are phones really the cause of sidewalk rage?
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It’s important to know exactly what is wrong with phones. Maybe people look down and text so walk slowly and don’t look where they’re going. Maybe people are distracted while walking and bump into other people. There are many possible reasons, and it’s important to know what those are. Otherwise we can’t imagine the effect that the new law will have.
Just because something worked in Middletown doesn’t mean it will work in Centerville.
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Middletown might be different from Centerville, so we don’t know whether the law will help in both places. Road rage can be a problem when people drive unsafely or even try to hurt others. Sidewalk rage can be dangerous too because pedestrians are not even protected by the car!
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It’s possible that people get mad and then destroy property. Or maybe they get in fights and end up destroying something accidentally. There needs to be more evidence of what is happening when someone has sidewalk rage. That way we can look at those events and see what the effect would have been if they had not been on their phone. Furthermore, the argument never specifies what the enforcement will be.
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Sometimes people do bad things because they don’t think they’ll be caught, or they don’t mind the occasional fine. We don’t know what this will cost because police already have other jobs, and they would have to monitor phone use. If they have to write too many tickets for pedestrian phone use, they might not notice other more serious crimes.
All of these issues could be resolved if we look at Middletown. We can find evidence about how phones cause problems and how the town handles the cost.
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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: 25 15
No. of Words: 316 350
No. of Characters: 1418 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.216 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.487 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.287 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 83 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 57 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 39 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 12.64 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.461 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.36 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.245 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.516 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 289, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Otherwise,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, if, look, may, really, so, then, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 55.5748502994 45% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1497.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 308.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86038961039 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38394612063 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.574675324675 0.468620217663 123% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.8473053892 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.860201082 57.8364921388 45% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 74.85 119.503703932 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4 23.324526521 66% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.55 5.70786347227 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0520971399961 0.218282227539 24% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0212360902171 0.0743258471296 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0412656990531 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0328506883479 0.128457276422 26% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0389539545437 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 14.3799401198 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 48.3550499002 151% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 12.197005988 56% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 10.61 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.79 8.32208582834 82% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 98.500998004 48% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 12.3882235529 36% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.1389221557 72% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.9071856287 59% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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