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 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 argument assumes that Mason river had been abandoned and not in use for recreational centre because it stinks. The argument therefore use this as a petition/proposal to the Government to invest in cleaning the river water. However, the Government investing into this project would not have been questionable if there are enough reasonable evidence to support this assumption.
The Wason river could have been smelling and abandoned due to some environmental factors, for instance the water area could be releasing some toxic substances into the water, like much surphur. Therefore Government investing in cleaning the water would eventually be a waste, because sooner or later the water will go back to its stinking state. The environment factors needs to be put in place before even considering what to do to the water.
Moreso, the claim that the sports that need water area are more unique and greatly practised by the people is not given. What happens when money is deposited into the project and the people of the area did not eventually use it, because they have other favourites recreations they do. The people can love football and at the same time love swimming, they can choose to playball everyday and not swim everyday because of the changes in climatic factors. Putting Government resources in what the people have alternatives for, will not be a good thing to do, instead the money can be use for another pressing needs.
Cleaning the water is not a bad idea, but we have to ensure that after doing it, it will not lead to another issue that will affect the environment. For example what if the water is cleaned and it increase the inhabitation of animals that lives in water and therefore put the lives of anyone that go to recreate there in danger. A more resereved place would have been better or preferred by people in the environment. If the main purpose of cleaning the water is for recreation, the claim/assumption is not enough to substanciate the conclusion.
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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: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 339 350
No. of Characters: 1618 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.291 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.773 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.587 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 103 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.214 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.321 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.369 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.517 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.105 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 28, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...sumption. The Wason river could have been smelling and abandoned due to some environmental...
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Line 3, column 195, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...nces into the water, like much surphur. Therefore Government investing in cleaning the wa...
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Line 5, column 379, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...e swimming, they can choose to playball everyday and not swim everyday because of the ch...
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Line 5, column 401, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...hoose to playball everyday and not swim everyday because of the changes in climatic fact...
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Line 6, column 197, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'increases'?
Suggestion: increases
...ple what if the water is cleaned and it increase the inhabitation of animals that lives ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, therefore, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1658.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 337.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91988130564 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76824224451 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.477744807122 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 532.8 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
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: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.3682332683 57.8364921388 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 118.428571429 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0714285714 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.14285714286 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => 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: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.114542437374 0.218282227539 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0472427421502 0.0743258471296 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392564867398 0.0701772020484 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0763962814251 0.128457276422 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0180087003775 0.0628817314937 29% => 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: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => 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: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => 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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