The author concludes that sidewalk rage leads to increase in assault and property damage. However he give no reasoning for this. This conclusion needs to be supported with more evidence. Interviewing people involved in such incidents should shed more light on its cause. For example it is possible that a particular area experinces high pedestrian traffic during lunch hours. The restuarants are located far away from the offices and people are in a hurry to finish their lunch and get back to work. If this is true banning of cell phone usage will have no impact.
The author reasons that the sidewalk rage is caused by slow traffic movement and people bumbing into things. If this is the case this sidewalk rage should be seen in places where slow traffic is experienced in the absence of cell phones, for example crowded strests or events. cell phones can be one of the reson in slowing down the traffic but this conclusion needs to be supported with data and also it needs to be shown that cell phones are one of the major reason slowing down the traffic. As seen in the lunch time example above there are other reasons possible for a crowd.
One of the problems with the idea of banning cell phone is how to enforce the ban. This will most likely be done by monitoring the traffic either using cameras or deploying offices of the street. If this is true the example fo Middletown can fail. Middletown did report reduced incidents since the ban on cell phones but if it is using any kind of monitoring solutions to enforce the ban it is possible that people are better behaved and avoid such incidents knowing that they are being watched. No driver goes into a rage and causes damage infront of an officer.
- Over the past three years there has been a marked increase in cases of 039 sidewalk rage 039 similar to the irrational anger drivers experience on the road but instead among sidewalk walkers The result is an increase in assaults property damage 67
- Science and technology will one day be able to solve all of society s problems 75
- Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether or not you agree or disagree Be 75
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 304 350
No. of Characters: 1388 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.176 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.566 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.283 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 96 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 67 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 33 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 21 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.267 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.056 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.4 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.3 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.44 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.042 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 91, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ncrease in assault and property damage. However he give no reasoning for this. This con...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 102, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'gives'.
Suggestion: gives
...assault and property damage. However he give no reasoning for this. This conclusion ...
^^^^
Line 1, column 501, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...inish their lunch and get back to work. If this is true banning of cell phone usag...
^^
Line 3, column 278, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Cell
... for example crowded strests or events. cell phones can be one of the reson in slowi...
^^^^
Line 5, column 197, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ras or deploying offices of the street. If this is true the example fo Middletown ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 16.3942115768 18% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1413.0 2260.96107784 62% => OK
No of words: 304.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.64802631579 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31946618641 2.78398813304 83% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.506578947368 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 705.55239521 63% => 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: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => 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: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.5709938374 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.3125 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.0753326247104 0.218282227539 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0340999463645 0.0743258471296 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695679131744 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0540933133297 0.128457276422 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.014535118888 0.0628817314937 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 14.3799401198 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.69 12.5979740519 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.44 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 98.500998004 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 12.3882235529 44% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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