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.
The author concludes, Use of mason river is sure to increase and thus, city government should allocate more funds to riverside recreational facilities. This conclusion is based on the evidence that resident's don't use the river for their recreation activities because of the quality and smell of the Mason River's water. The author's argument as it stands now is flawed and uses three main assumptions to reach this conclusion. Firstly, author assumes that if resident's do not use mason river because of it's quality and smell. It can be the case that resident's do not like to play in mason city river because of the weather condition of Mason city. It can also be the case that they only like that sports but do not actually ever try it themselves. If any of the two previous examples fill the assumption then it makes the argument weaker. Secondly, it is assumed that pouring more funds to cleaning the river will be successfull. It can be the case that smell and quality of water are the result of some minerals being dissolve in the water. If this holds true then any amount of money will not be able to clean up the river. Lastly, author assumes that there is a emergent need for cleaning up the river because resident's are complaining. It is possible that majority of resident's do not care if the river gets cleaned or nor and only a handfull of people whose buisness is effected by the quality of water are complaining. If this hold true there is no need to spent a huge amount of money because majority of people are not affected by it. In conclusion, the author assumes three main assumptions which need to be addressed before the statement can be considered veracious. If the author fails to provide evidence to fill the gaps then argument cannot be evaluated and hence, will be considered a hoax.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 321 350
No. of Characters: 1470 1500
No. of Different Words: 147 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.233 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.579 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.502 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 90 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 72 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.923 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.733 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.362 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 209, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...is based on the evidence that residents dont use the river for their recreation acti...
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Line 1, column 324, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...nd smell of the Mason Rivers water. The authors argument as it stands now is flawed and...
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Line 1, column 747, 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.
...do not actually ever try it themselves. If any of the two previous examples fill t...
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Line 1, column 1041, 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.
...e minerals being dissolve in the water. If this holds true then any amount of mone...
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Line 1, column 1162, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...r. Lastly, author assumes that there is a emergent need for cleaning up the river...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, thus, in conclusion
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 : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1486.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 320.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.64375 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54457142757 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.45625 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.1151600071 57.8364921388 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.0666666667 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3333333333 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.86666666667 5.70786347227 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 5.15768463074 19% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.18211668544 0.218282227539 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0720420442498 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0838089113336 0.0701772020484 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18211668544 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0628817314937 0% => 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: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.63 12.5979740519 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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