"Two years ago the city council voted to prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. They claimed that skateboard users were responsible for litter and vandalism that were keeping other visitors from coming to the plaza. In the past two years, however, there has been only a small increase in the number of visitors to Central Plaza, and litter and vandalism are still problematic. Skateboarding is permitted in Monroe Park, however, and there is no problem with litter or vandalism there. In order to restore Central Plaza to its former glory, then, we recommend that the city lift its prohibition on skateboarding in the plaza."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author in his letter recommends to permit skateboarding in Central Plaza since banning it two years ago did not result in a significant increase in the visitors. He justifies his recommendation by citing evidence from Monroe park that skateboarding doesn’t lead to problems of littering and vandalism as suspected by the council. There are a number of questions that need to be answered to fully evaluate the author’s argument and recommendation is implemented.
First information we need to figure out is whether there was a decrease in vandalism and uncleanliness right after skateboarding was prohibited in the Central plaza? Littering can be a nuisance to everyone including the shops owners as well as the visitors. If a decrease was noticed perhaps skateboarders indeed were responsible for dirtying the place which no doubt would have negatively impacted the customer base. In such a case unbanning would again deteriorate the plaza’s environment and turn customers off.
Second, we need to find out if any plazas or stores opened in the vicinity of Central plaza that could be attracting the plaza’s customers and resulting in low number of visitors to the plaza? The author mentions that after prohibiting the skateboarding in the plaza there was indeed an increase in shoppers which gives support to the claim that some visitors were indeed turned off by skateboarding.However, he mentions that the increase was small. The small increase could be because of extra competition that plaza may be facing from nearby plaza or mall being opened. Hence, it is important to find out whether it is the extra competition causing low increase or just the banning of skateboarding.
It needs to be determined to what extent conditions in Monroe park and central plaza are similar. For example, whether the skateboarders visiting Monroe park belong to a different demographic. Alternatively, they may have more resources at their disposal to clean up after the skateboarders even if they are a source of littering and vandalism.
In conclusion, a number of questions need to be answered, to assess the viability of the author’s recommendation. These include whether any new mall opened in the vicinity, whether skateboarding leads to uncleanliness and vandalism and how similar is Central Plaza to Monroe plaza?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, well, for example, in conclusion, no doubt, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1983.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 372.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33064516129 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.30545377897 2.78398813304 119% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.486559139785 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 620.1 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3297601428 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.9375 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 5.70786347227 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.33146618397 0.218282227539 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102417409066 0.0743258471296 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610278450731 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181546150475 0.128457276422 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0292880333883 0.0628817314937 47% => 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: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.