The following is a memorandum from the office of Mayor Harrison Smith Jones.
"In order to relieve Briggsville’s notorious traffic congestion, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones plans to build a multi-million dollar subway system. The subway will run through the major downtown areas, a part of the town where buses serve as the only form of public transportation. For years, residents have been complaining both about inconsistent buses, and the general lack of safety while riding the buses. Additionally, the subway will be running twenty-four hours a day. Since motorists will spend less time in traffic, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones expects to see an immediate increase in worker productivity, which will improve the economy of Briggsville."
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.
The argument Mayor Jones makes that building a subway will relieve traffic and improve Briggsville's economy is deeply flawed. It bases it's conclusion on three major assumptions on the public transport system and the behavior of the public, which, when broken down, completely dismantles the validity of the argument.
First of all, the opponent assumes that a good deal of people will switch from bus transportation to subway transportation because of the better condition of the subways. However, this fails to take into account cost. Maybe the townspeople will still prefer riding buses after the subway is built becuase bus rides will be significantly cheaper. It is very likely that the subway rides will be expensive, due to the high cost of building the subway in the first place. If very few people opt to ride the subway in place of the bus, than nothing has changed ultimately.
Furthermore, Jones assumes that getting people off the buses will reduce traffic congestion. Even if the subway were to successfully convert bus riders to subway riders, it may still not affect traffic patterns. The majority of traffic congestion is not likely caused by only a few buses on the road; many more motorists ride cars than buses. Unless the whole town's bus operation shuts down, all the buses will still be running even if some customers leave. So with the same number of buses on the road, and no presumed affect on car drivers, the subway will not lessen traffic.
Finally Jones predicts that the subway will lessen time spent in traffic, thereby increasing worker productivity and the economy. At this point however, it is not known if traffic times will lessen at all. Hypothetically, if traffic congestion were to be reduced, worker productivity may not increase either. The most reduced traffic times can do is get workers to their destination faster. There is no concrete evidence that workers will be happier or more motivated to work once there. Thus, we can not conclude that the economy will benefit from the subway venture.
Ultimately the subway may not garner customers from the bus and may not alleiviate traffic at all. All these assumptions lead to an increadibly flawed conclusion.
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Suggestion: Finally,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, thus, first of all, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 33.0505617978 51% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 58.6224719101 68% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1848.0 2235.4752809 83% => OK
No of words: 367.0 442.535393258 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03542234332 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62711281527 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 215.323595506 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.528610354223 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.9336833652 60.3974514979 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.4 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.35 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216224230126 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0729118190688 0.0831039109588 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0630910781648 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123384642731 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0325787815166 0.0667264976115 49% => 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: 11.5 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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