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.
As the water sports were ranked among their favorite recreational activity by the Mason City population and after the state plans to clean up the river's water, the argument claims that water sports will surely increase and the government should invest money to riverside facilities.However, there are complaints from the residents about the river's quality and smell,it does ensure that the usage of the river for water sport will increase. Therefore, we need to know in which position the water sports were ranked, the percentage from the population that complained about the river and if this complains have a straightforward relationship with the use of the river for water sports.
First, the water sports had been ranked among their favorite activities, but it does not mean that the population really practices this often or if they do it at Mason city's river. It's necessary to know which sports are most practiced by the population, to ensure that they really play this sports often. For example, skydiving could be someone favorite sports, but it does not means that the person do this frequently. So, we cannot ensure that the water sports pratice would increse by this statement.
Second, the argument cited complaints about the river's water, but it does not metion how many complaints the population did and how may people did it. It could been just a few people or a good percentage of the population. So, by the argument we cannot ensure that the complains represents a good part of the Mason city residents.
Third, We cannot ensure that these complaints have a direct relationship with the use of the water for sports. Maybe the residents were complaining because of the view or because they want to feel comfortable using the area around the river.
Finally, as we coud analyze, to clean up the river's water does not mean that the water sports will increase. If the city government invest the money at the riverside recreational facilities without looking for reasonable statistics about the population intention to use the river for sports, they could end up wasting money on something that the residents will not use. Moreover,they could receive complaints about the government money management as the government should invest in real demands of the residents.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 380 350
No. of Characters: 1869 1500
No. of Different Words: 153 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.415 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.918 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.549 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.861 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.437 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.437 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.23 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 283, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
...ld invest money to riverside facilities.However, there are complaints from the resident...
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Line 1, column 366, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , it
...dents about the rivers quality and smell,it does ensure that the usage of the rive...
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Line 1, column 386, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rs quality and smell,it does ensure that the usage of the river for water sport w...
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Line 2, column 379, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'mean'
Suggestion: mean
...omeone favorite sports, but it does not means that the person do this frequently. So,...
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Line 3, column 160, Rule ID: PRP_PAST_PART[2]
Message: Did you mean 'have been' or 'be'?
Suggestion: have been; be
...did and how may people did it. It could been just a few people or a good percentage ...
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Line 5, column 379, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , they
...hat the residents will not use. Moreover,they could receive complaints about the gove...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, so, therefore, third, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.6327345309 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1905.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 377.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05305039788 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72410306322 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.42175066313 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 582.3 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 93.4763147999 57.8364921388 162% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.071428571 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.9285714286 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42857142857 5.70786347227 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.280607468157 0.218282227539 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101748355053 0.0743258471296 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0913847604881 0.0701772020484 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162890912334 0.128457276422 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688130963165 0.0628817314937 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 28.5 12.3882235529 230% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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