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.
it is stated that the residents of the mason city are likely to use the mason river more often for water sports once the river is cleaned and to support this cause the city government should devote more money in this year’s budget to the riverside recreational facilities. The author has reached this conclusion based on the survey conducted for the mason city resident’s, where they ranked water sports among their favorite recreational activities. also, the city has a river that flows through it, making it suitable to entertain the residents. however, before this recommendation can be evaluated two questions must be answered.
First of all, will cleaning the river really increase it’s use for water sports? Yes, people are interested in water sports but it’s also suggested that river has rarely been used for these pursuits. Nothing can guarantee that people complained about the river, for they wanted it used for water sports, rather being tormented by it’s foul smell and bad quality. it’s possible that people of the city didn’t find mason river exciting enough for water sports and that’s why it was never used for the purpose before. if either of these points has merit, then conclusion drawn in the argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, will devoting more money for riverside recreational facilities increase it’s use? mason river has a recreational facility but as stated it has been poorly maintained due to the small budget allocated to it. however, even when the facility was new people rarely used it for the purpose of recreation. Thus, it’s possible that people ranked water sports the highest for they prefer it in the ocean and not really in the river. if this were true allocating more budget is less likely to do much for the increasing the use of the river facilities.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is considerably flawed due to it’s reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. if the author is to answer the two questions above and offer more evidence, then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation to invest more in the riverside recreational facilities.
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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: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 358 350
No. of Characters: 1761 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.35 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.919 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.6 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 44.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.662 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.875 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.497 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.752 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.151 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, then, thus, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1846.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 357.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17086834734 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69694518426 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.478991596639 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 572.4 705.55239521 81% => 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: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4723454269 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.375 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3125 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.25 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 20.0 5.25449101796 381% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.375233911554 0.218282227539 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129889943377 0.0743258471296 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106830318687 0.0701772020484 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220220780026 0.128457276422 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.146034827272 0.0628817314937 232% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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