"Two years ago the city voted to prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. They claimed that skateboard users were responsible for the litter and vandalism that were keeping other visitors from coming to the plaza. In the past two years, however, there has only been 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 specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author of the argument purportedly highlights that in order to make economic situation of central plaza prosperous like as past, skateboarders should be banned in the Central Plaza because they caused vandalism and create some problems that people avoid to visit the Plaza. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which more well-established evidence needs to be given.
The first assumption that lacks some semblance of truth and can overtly be impugned is the fact that skateboarders were responsible for litter and vandalism in the Central Plaza. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since there is no sufficient evidence to support if the only cause of litter and vandalism were skateboarders. One point that should be considered is that the author does not show any information or evidence to the extent skateboarders were responsible. In fact, vast majorities of people visited the Plaza so, they might have been the main cause of vandalism, who knows? It is also important to say that skateboarders rarely have time to put for vandalism and litter. Indeed, they spend most of their time for recreation and skateboarding.
The author also asserts that during the past two years the number of visitors to Plaza diminishes drastically because of problems created by skateboarders. Although it might seem tenable at a face, it has some defects due to the paucity of evidence that would consolidate the premise the otherwise. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that myriads of people are interested in skateboarding. So, what if they visited the plaza because of skateboarders alongside with purchasing? There is a possibility that prohibition of skateboarders reduced the number of people in the plaza. As a matter of fact, skateboarders can be a great advertising and appeal a plethora of people.
Putting the two previous assumptions aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author, people working in the plaza face a decline in their revenue and income. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled evidence to support if skateboarders could decline incomes and create the recession. One point that should not go unnoticed is that maybe they confront a reduction in their revenue because of economic recession and inflation. What if their revenue increase dramatically after recovering from the economic recession?
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are some shreds of evidence, having been ignored by the author while the presence of which could add to the logic of each premise.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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flaws:
this essay topic needs to prove that prohibition on skateboarding in the plaza is the correct decision.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: ? Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 441 350
No. of Characters: 2213 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.583 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.018 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.884 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.646 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.299 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.51 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 253, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'avoid visiting'.
Suggestion: avoid visiting
...sm and create some problems that people avoid to visit the Plaza. However, the premises upon w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, well, while, in fact, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2269.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 441.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14512471655 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95897949791 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47619047619 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 714.6 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5244786902 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.047619048 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.61904761905 5.70786347227 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301347681275 0.218282227539 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0869356841528 0.0743258471296 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0732600349249 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153811695463 0.128457276422 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0967495921909 0.0628817314937 154% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.