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.
The first point that may have been overlooked is the fact that Mason City residents are already marking the mentioned activities (fishing, swimming and boating) as their favorite, despite the lack of maintenance of the Mason City River. This implicates that it is possible that there are other places (rivers/lakes) in the city for these activities to be carried out. Or, perhaps, the residents go away for trips to other cities to do these recreational activities, since it is nowhere mentioned that the residents like to do these activities in Mason City itself.
The residents have regularly complained about the river water quality and the river's smell, but never about the lack of these activities being offered at the riverside. This, again, implies that the main concern of the residents regarding the Mason City River is its cleanliness and ecological maintenance. It is valid and the most reasonable course of path for the state Government to decide to conduct cleanups of the river as a response to these complaints.
However, the statement which says that the use of the river water sports is sure to increase as a result of this clean-up, cannot be confirmed unless the points addressed in the first stanza are resolved. Perhaps the citizens prefer the Mason City River to be a peaceful and serene site and would not want to conduct recreational activities over here. Perhaps they do want the river to be cleaned so that they can conduct their activities, and in that case, of course, the statement will hold true.
The final statement that concludes that the state should devote more money for riverside recreational facilities, is dependent on several assumptions. Even assuming that the residents DO want the recreational activities to be conducted near the Mason City River, the following point needs to kept in mind: considering that the state will already devote some significant amount of money on the river clean up, it may not be wise for them to devote regular money on recreational activities, as that will not be a trivial cost. Even if the budget does permit it, there may be detrimental environmental effects of conducting these activities. It may be deleterious for the animals and plants residing in this water body.
Thus, the state should devote money for recreational activities near the Mason City River based on three broad factors - what the citizens actually want, what its budget permits, and the ecological consequences of conducting these activities.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 188, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (DO) must be used with a third-person verb: 'wants'.
Suggestion: wants
...ns. Even assuming that the residents DO want the recreational activities to be condu...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'thus', 'of course', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.25 0.25644967241 97% => OK
Verbs: 0.146929824561 0.15541462614 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0745614035088 0.0836205057962 89% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0482456140351 0.0520304965353 93% => OK
Pronouns: 0.030701754386 0.0272364105082 113% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118421052632 0.125424944231 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0438596491228 0.0416121511921 105% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.80574632751 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.030701754386 0.026700313972 115% => OK
Particles: 0.00438596491228 0.001811407834 242% => OK
Determiners: 0.131578947368 0.113004496875 116% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0263157894737 0.0255425247493 103% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0109649122807 0.0127820249294 86% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2508.0 2731.13054187 92% => OK
No of words: 411.0 446.07635468 92% => OK
Chars per words: 6.10218978102 6.12365571057 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.321167883212 0.378187486979 85% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.255474452555 0.287650121315 89% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.197080291971 0.208842608468 94% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.160583941606 0.135150697306 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80574632751 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 207.018472906 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462287104623 0.469332199767 98% => OK
Word variations: 49.8966014134 52.1807786196 96% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.039408867 70% => OK
Sentence length: 29.3571428571 23.2022227129 127% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.940791286 57.7814097925 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 179.142857143 141.986410481 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.3571428571 23.2022227129 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.857142857143 0.724660767414 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 54.9045881126 51.9672348444 106% => OK
Elegance: 1.82524271845 1.8405768891 99% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.464298917171 0.441005458295 105% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.174965981294 0.135418324435 129% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0647685863196 0.0829849096947 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.693469203097 0.58762219726 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.149055370586 0.147661913831 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.24504890129 0.193483328276 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0909210848094 0.0970749176394 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.528119528398 0.42659136922 124% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0527981513491 0.0774707102158 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.356647982515 0.312017818177 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0532887111733 0.0698173142475 76% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.87684729064 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 5.36822660099 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 8.0 14.657635468 55% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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