In surveys Mason City residents rank water sports (swimming, boating and fishing) among their favorite recreational activities. The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits, however, and the city park department devotes little of its budget to maintaining riverside recreational facilities. For years there have been complaints from residents about the quality of the river's water and the river's smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason River. Use of the river for water sports is therefore sure to increase. The city government should for that reason devote more money in this year's budget to riverside recreational facilities.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The survey argues that the city government should invest in riverside recreational activities and should include the plan in budget assuming that the usage of river for water sports will increase as the state has announced plans to clean up Mason River. However, it fails to lists evidences for the rise in usage and intersests of people in the river. It surely has following fallacies.
The survey did not provide any details about the flow conditions, depths and hazards in the river, also weather in the centre of the river. The river may be dangerous for the water sports which includes rafting because sometimes the flow might be unpredictable resulting in the loss of many lives. The survey clearly stated that the residents are interested in water sports but also stated they seldom used the river for that purpose. Hazardous conditions of the river and unpredictible flow of water might be one of the reasons. Moreover, there is information on the weather whether it is favourable for the people to enjoy sports therre.
Moreover, peoples' lives may be endangered if there are some dangerous water animals such as crocodiles, water snakes. Survey did not provide any information on water animals failing to provide evidence that the people use the river for recreation. Knowing the danger from these animals, people might have rarely used the river for the sports. Moreover, there may be algae and water plants that might bind and crush people touching them like veins. Even, the information on the plant growth in the river is not stated in the survey failing to provide the evidence.
The survey stated that the water sports ranked as their favourite recreational activities for the city residents but it is giving any proof that the same sport remains favorite among the people for the coming years. They may get fascinated by other sports such as sky-diving or hot-air-ballon which are available to them in the city instead of waiting for the river to clean up. Or they might get interested in video games and robotic games due to advancements in technology. There is no evidence of only development in riverside sports in the survey clearly lacking the proof for its argumeny.
To recapitulate, the arguments clearly lacks to provide evidences to prove the survey report is correct as it has many logical fallacies.
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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: 18 15
No. of Words: 390 350
No. of Characters: 1906 1500
No. of Different Words: 173 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.444 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.887 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.522 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 56 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.944 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.569 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 276, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'list'.
Suggestion: list
...an up Mason River. However, it fails to lists evidences for the rise in usage and int...
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Line 3, column 299, 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.
...le resulting in the loss of many lives. The survey clearly stated that the resident...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Two successive sentences begin with the same adverb. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...r the people to enjoy sports therre. Moreover, peoples lives may be endangered if the...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1952.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 390.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00512820513 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5955304728 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.44358974359 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 616.5 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.0919772465 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.444444444 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6666666667 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.77777777778 5.70786347227 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298869193703 0.218282227539 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0936590353388 0.0743258471296 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.082629166604 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159215488915 0.128457276422 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0814835954291 0.0628817314937 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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