In the last year’s mayoral election in Town T, candidate Miller led candidate Keating by a substantial margin in the polls leading up to the election. At the last minute, candidate Keating launched a widely viewed series of television advertisements that focused on preserving the natural environment of Town T, a topic neglected by candidate Miller. Subsequently, candidate Keating won the election by a narrow margin.
This year, if candidate Miller hopes to win the upcoming mayoral election, he must increase his coverage of the topic of preserving the natural environment of Town T.
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 author states that in order to win this year's elections, candidate Miller must focus more upon the issue of preserving the natural environment. This statement was concluded by the author on the basis of the results of the previous year's election, where candidate Keating beat candidate Miller at the last moment when Keating chose to address and launch television advertisements about the issue of preserving the natural environment, a topic which was neglected by his opponent Miller. Although for this conclusion to be valid, the following assumptions and questions need to be evaluated.
Firstly, does the conclusion made by the author take into account the relevance of the same issue of environment conservation for this year? There might be a possibility that the burning issues that require attention this year may be different from environment conservation like water conservation or spreading of a virus having deleterious effects on humans, pollution of the river which supplies the drinking water for town T, etc. Thus focusing on the same old issue which has been addressed in the previous year and if measures were already taken for it, then it may not grab attention or votes from the citizens of town T which in turn would not guarantee victory in this year's elections for town T. Thus if this assumption has any credit then the argument stated by the author is weakened.
Secondly, what if this year's opponent goes the extra length to ensure that no topics or concerns are left out while planning out his campaign? What if the opponent candidate is well prepared for addressing all issues that concern the people and yet are to be resolved? The previous year's election was won my Keating by focusing on the issue left out by the opposition which got him extra attention from the people and eventually their goodwill as well as their votes. So in such case this year merely focusing on the topic of environment conservation will prove to be futile which qualifies the author's conclusion.
Lastly, The author assumes that the audience for the campaigns will be the same. What if the citizens voting for the elections this year require focusing on issues other than just environment conservation? This would mean that the citizens would not be intrigued or swayed by Miller's increased coverage of the environment conservation topic. They might vote for the candidate that addresses the issues that concern them more this year. Thus this year's elections are largely contingent on the people comprising the voter's pool.
Thus simply assuming that just because people voted for the candidate who focused on the environment conservation topic won, would win this year too would be justified if the above questions are analysed and more proof is provided. The proofs would then help us evaluate the viability of the argument made by the author.
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Essay evaluation 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: 17 15
No. of Words: 474 350
No. of Characters: 2361 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.666 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.981 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.645 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 163 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 123 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 101 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.882 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.566 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.706 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.586 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.149 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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Message: Did you mean 'these'?
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...he basis of the results of the previous years election, where candidate Keating beat ...
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... in turn would not guarantee victory in this years elections for town T. Thus if thi...
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...nd yet are to be resolved? The previous years election was won my Keating by focusing...
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... prove to be futile which qualifies the authors conclusion. Lastly, The author assum...
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...ssues that concern them more this year. Thus this years elections are largely contin...
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Suggestion: Thus,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, while, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2395.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 474.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05274261603 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66599839874 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68250666588 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470464135021 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 728.1 705.55239521 103% => 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: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.2826156707 57.8364921388 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.055555556 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3333333333 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.15470386604 0.218282227539 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.056031212251 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0726407786645 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104619423214 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0787717169246 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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