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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
Author's proposal that city governmnet should assign some more money in the year budget to riverside recreational activities does sounds totally valid point for improved quality of life for residents and increase in city's property value. It is very easy to understand why city residents would want a clean water, but this argument is rife with holes and assumptions and thus, not strong enough to lead to increase in funding.
Firstly,Depending on a survey author argues that inspite of having huge intersets in water sports, people are not able to use the river because of the quality of water, but no proper evidence are provided regarding the survey as of how many questions where asked in the survey or how many people from the city actually partisipated in the survey. For example, the survey might only involve people who stay near to the river and hence they might be the only people who want to use the river for sports activities. The survey could have asked residents if they prefer using river for the water sports or would like to have a hydroelectric damn built, which may have swayed them to choose the river sports. There is possibilty that survey might have included only 2 questions on water sports and which is not enough to decide or come to conclusion.
Secondly, the author implies that residents do not use river for swimming, boating and fishing, despite of increased interest, because water is polluted and smelly. There is no concrete connection resident's lack of use and current state of the river made. Although there are complaints, it might be possible that complaints are from wide range of people or perhaps one or two people made lots of complaints. So , we dont jus do not know. To stengthen his/her argument author would get benifited from a normed survey by asking wide range of crowd , giving equal importance to people stying near to the river and as well as far from it.
A clean, beautiful river will often add city's property value and also gives a happy and healthy life for the residents of the city.For this reason, the government must decide to invest in imporving reiverside recreational activities. However this author's argument not likely significantly persuade the government to increase in funding.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => 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: 1910.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 380.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02631578947 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60019867328 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515789473684 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 589.5 705.55239521 84% => 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: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.5114317926 57.8364921388 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.923076923 119.503703932 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.2307692308 23.324526521 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4615384615 5.70786347227 183% => OK
Paragraphs: 16.0 5.15768463074 310% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 15.0 5.25449101796 285% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252874843891 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0882661851761 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0600375252082 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0827381347078 0.128457276422 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0666187870447 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.49 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.9071856287 151% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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