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The board of Teerbug Town has decided to add to the town budget for the upcoming year, funds to build three recreational facilities, a snowmobile trail, trail shooting and a putting green. The decision of the board is based on the questionnaire carried out by the board. The claim definitely holds some valid points, however, it is based on three unjustified assumptions that the 40% feedback represents the entire towns preference, the head of the house represents a family's preference, and that the current years preference will remain the same, of which unless sufficient evidence is provided, renders the argument unpersuasive.
Firstly, the argument is based on the assumption that the questionnaire feedback represent the entire towns preference. It is true that questionnaires are a very efficient way of obtaining feedback from the public. However, is this instance only 40% of the households provided feedback. This means that the majority of the household did not provide information on the facilities they would like. Different households have different people, and people have different preferences. There is no guarantee that the majority that didn't provide feedback have the same preferences as the ones in the results. Other people may prefer football fields or swimming pools for example. In such a case, the arguers claim, which is based on the assumption that the results represent the entire town, will be invalidated. In order to put the argument on a more sound footing, the arguer has to provide evidence, in the form of another questionnaire on the houses that did not initially provide feedback, that they have the same preferences
Secondly, the argument is based on the assumption that the head of the house has the same preference as all the people in that house. The questionnaire was answered by there head of the house. However, no data is provided on the basis of the answers. It is possible that the answers were the head of the house’ personal views and no other household member was consulted. In such a case, this argument is severely weakened because people have different preferences and so many not agree with the view of the head of their households. In order to validate the argument, the argue must show that the questionnaire feedback was based on the view of the entire household members by providing their signatures on the questionnaires.
finally, the use of the current years feedback, assumes that peoples preferences will remain the same. we know that peoples preferences change, there is no guarantee that what people like the current will not change the following year. In making a decision based on the current years preferences, the board is assuming that people will like the same things the following year, yet m it is possible that the people may want to try something new the following year like play tennis or play basketball. In order to validate the claims, the board must prove that the preferences will not change.
In conclusion, the argument is based on the assumptions that the feedback represent the towns preference, the head of the house preference represents what the entire household wants. In order to substantiate the claim, the board must provide data showing that the majority that didn't provide feedback in the questionnaire also have the same preferences and that the head of the house holds the same preferences as the entire household.
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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: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 565 350
No. of Characters: 2791 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.875 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.94 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.763 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 182 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 150 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 116 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 73 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.565 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.385 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.522 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.531 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 273, 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.
...questionnaire carried out by the board. The claim definitely holds some valid point...
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Line 1, column 417, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'towns'' or 'town's'?
Suggestion: towns'; town's
... the 40% feedback represents the entire towns preference, the head of the house repre...
^^^^^
Line 1, column 467, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...erence, the head of the house represents a familys preference, and that the curre...
^^
Line 1, column 512, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...amilys preference, and that the current years preference will remain the same, of whi...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 103, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'towns'' or 'town's'?
Suggestion: towns'; town's
...tionnaire feedback represent the entire towns preference. It is true that questionnai...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 525, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... is no guarantee that the majority that didnt provide feedback have the same preferen...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 757, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...based on the assumption that the results represent the entire town, will be inval...
^^
Line 5, column 569, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...lds. In order to validate the argument, the argue must show that the questionnaire feedba...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Finally
...ir signatures on the questionnaires. finally, the use of the current years feedback,...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 33, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...res. finally, the use of the current years feedback, assumes that peoples preferen...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 104, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: We
...oples preferences will remain the same. we know that peoples preferences change, t...
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Line 9, 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.
...hat the preferences will not change. In conclusion, the argument is based on th...
^^
Line 9, column 88, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...umptions that the feedback represent the towns preference, the head of the house ...
^^
Line 9, column 90, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'towns'' or 'town's'?
Suggestion: towns'; town's
...ptions that the feedback represent the towns preference, the head of the house prefe...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 151, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... head of the house preference represents what the entire household wants. In orde...
^^
Line 9, column 186, 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.
...sents what the entire household wants. In order to substantiate the claim, the bo...
^^
Line 9, column 281, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...ide data showing that the majority that didnt provide feedback in the questionnaire a...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, as to, for example, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 13.6137724551 191% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2865.0 2260.96107784 127% => OK
No of words: 563.0 441.139720559 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08880994671 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84718761053 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.380106571936 0.468620217663 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 873.9 705.55239521 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 17.0 8.76447105788 194% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 85.1681756729 57.8364921388 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.565217391 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4782608696 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.04347826087 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0187012100748 0.218282227539 9% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00624904596657 0.0743258471296 8% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0293106236855 0.0701772020484 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0152121432283 0.128457276422 12% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0304242864567 0.0628817314937 48% => 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: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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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