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 state assumed that the cleanup of the Mason River will definitely lead to an increase in the use of the river for water recreational activities. However, this conclusion is not well supported by the author and few questions need to be answered in order to prevent the government of the Mason State from spending unnecessarily.
First, the author sited a survey of the Mason City resident, but results of surveys are not always true. In fact some surveys may be over exaggerated or even not well taken. The survey taken may have be sampled on minority in the community or even given to residents that stay along the rivers side. Of course the latter residents would prefer swimming, boating and fishing compared to those that stay away from the river. To strengthen this argument, the author must be able to provide proofs for the survey of at least Ninety-nine percent of the residents to see if they would prefer water recreational activities.
In addition to this, the survey questionnaires may be vague to individual respondents. “Do you like water recreational activities?”, may not be termed as engaging in water sports like swimming and boating. Majority might have intense interest for watching those recreational activities and not engaging in them just like people do watch football without playing football. In a bit to address this, the questionnaire must be explicitly written to account for most of these questions on the citizens.
The author claims that the smell and dirt of the river has debarred citizens from using the river for sports, consequently a cleanup would foster this activities once again. These assumptions may not be true. The citizens close to the river might have been disturbed by the smell and hence will want the government of the country to clean the river up with alacrity. That does not mean they would use the river after clean up.
The River cleanup in the community will bring about a better health status of those leaving very close to the river but will not necessarily amount to the usage of the river for recreational activities. Although, it is a good thing for the state government to invest on health related programs(such as cleaning up the dirty and smelly river), but it does not mean that they should invest their money unnecessarily on making the river a recreational center without much proofs ; which will exhaust more funds. On this note, the author falls apart in his argument that a cleanup will lead to a frequent use of the river for sporting activities.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'exaggerated'.
Suggestion: exaggerated
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Message: Use past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...t well taken. The survey taken may have be sampled on minority in the community or...
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Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...the river a recreational center without much proofs ; which will exhaust more funds....
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e of the river for sporting activities.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'consequently', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'at least', 'in addition', 'in fact', 'of course', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.240343347639 0.25644967241 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.156652360515 0.15541462614 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0536480686695 0.0836205057962 64% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0665236051502 0.0520304965353 128% => OK
Pronouns: 0.019313304721 0.0272364105082 71% => OK
Prepositions: 0.128755364807 0.125424944231 103% => OK
Participles: 0.049356223176 0.0416121511921 119% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.7411239521 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0386266094421 0.026700313972 145% => OK
Particles: 0.00858369098712 0.001811407834 474% => OK
Determiners: 0.135193133047 0.113004496875 120% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0429184549356 0.0255425247493 168% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00643776824034 0.0127820249294 50% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2540.0 2731.13054187 93% => OK
No of words: 429.0 446.07635468 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.92074592075 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.57801047555 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.317016317016 0.378187486979 84% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.226107226107 0.287650121315 79% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.165501165501 0.208842608468 79% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.111888111888 0.135150697306 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7411239521 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 207.018472906 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475524475524 0.469332199767 101% => OK
Word variations: 52.3997756574 52.1807786196 100% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 23.8333333333 23.2022227129 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.118632719 57.7814097925 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.111111111 141.986410481 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 23.2022227129 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.833333333333 0.724660767414 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 46.4440559441 51.9672348444 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.72566371681 1.8405768891 94% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.38561670488 0.441005458295 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.161853371175 0.135418324435 120% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0875553958899 0.0829849096947 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.602256234526 0.58762219726 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.183433846623 0.147661913831 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.167556576686 0.193483328276 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0778891832899 0.0970749176394 80% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.448201358279 0.42659136922 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.135405477532 0.0774707102158 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.274881619957 0.312017818177 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0424440723137 0.0698173142475 61% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.87684729064 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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