In a study of the reading habits of Waymarsh citizens conducted by the University of Waymarsh, most respondents said that they preferred literary classics as reading material. However, a second study conducted by the same researchers found that the type of book most frequently checked out of each of the public libraries in Waymarsh was the mystery novel. Therefore, it can be concluded that the respondents in the first study had misrepresented their reading habits.
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.
In this argument, the arguer claims that the Waymarsh citizens preferred mystery novel instead of literary classics and the first study's result was wrong. To justify the arguer's assumption, the arguer points out that the mystery novel books are more frequently checked in the public libraries according to the second study. The conclusion may seem logical at first glance. With a series of unwarranted and poor evidences and holes, the argument fails to convince us with such conclusion.
A critical issue involved in this argument is that the frequency of reading sone types of books cannot be severed as the proof of their preference, since people may just seek for the relaxation via reading mystery books. An appropriate example cannot be far away. For instance, students have to read a lot of textbooks during their school period. For the sake of passing the exam or finshing homework, reading textbooks spend the students' major time. However, I believe that nobody will answer they really like to read their textbooks. Therefore, the arguer should provide more accurate data regards of the altitude of the readers when they get books from public libraries.
Furthermore, those people who tend to say that the literary classics may just belie their real bias for reading. In reality, if you tell senior people you prefer to reading mystery novel, they may believe that you are not mature enough. In view of this, it is suggested that the arguer should conduct the investigation through more reliable schemes. Without providing credible evidences, the argument cannot be willing to be accepted by audiences.
Finally, even if the aforementioned assumptions on which the conclusion is based are credible, the argument merely relies on the argument that the Waymarsh citizens are more likely to read the mystery novel, and we are not informed any believable and professional evidences. In fact, those people who tend to read books in the libraries cannot represent the entire citizens, since many people perfer owing their books by purchasing from libraries or shopping malls. In view of this, the arguer is unable to obtain such paramount assumption without the information of the library user data.
Overall, the argument is unpersuasive and the arguer should provide more credible information to demonstrate the above conclusion. Otherwise, the hasility carrying out such results would pose negative impact on the validity of the proposed studies.
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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: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 394 350
No. of Characters: 2017 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.455 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.119 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.551 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.737 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.831 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.306 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 171, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguers'' or 'arguer's'?
Suggestion: arguers'; arguer's
...studys result was wrong. To justify the arguers assumption, the arguer points out that ...
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Line 3, column 165, Rule ID: PREFER_TO_VBG[1]
Message: Did you mean 'read'?
Suggestion: read
...if you tell senior people you prefer to reading mystery novel, they may believe that yo...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, really, second, so, therefore, as for, for instance, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2063.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 394.0 441.139720559 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23604060914 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63838438708 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535532994924 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.4338272699 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.578947368 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7368421053 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63157894737 5.70786347227 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => 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: 0.157424661858 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0445667276957 0.0743258471296 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0511124611351 0.0701772020484 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0788584152403 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0414468156296 0.0628817314937 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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