In the 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 water and the river’s smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up the 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.
It may be true that government can devote more money for riverside recreational facilities, but this argument stated by the author does not hold cogent reasons for increasing use of river. Also it is easy to understand why people require the river to be cleaned but this argument is rife with holes and assumptions so doesn’t cogent for increased funding.
Citing the survey author reports that the residents consider water sports as their favorite recreational activities, but scope and viability of that survey is in question as it may be that the conducted survey asked questions such as whether they preferred the river being used for water sports or hydroelectric dam built across it. Also it may have been conducted only on the people living riverside. It may happen that people may have opted for water sports because they like watching it rather than playing. Nothing specific is known about it. Unless and until the survey is reliable author fails to back his statement.
Author also states that people but don’t use river for swimming, boating and shipping but there is no concrete evidence that people don’t use river because it is not clean. Although complaints regarding water smell and cleanliness are received, but we don’t know whether there are numerous complaints or only or two complaints regarding it. One way of strengthening this argument is by conducting a survey asking people why they don’t currently use river?.
Based on the implications that people don’t use river because of its smell and its quality government has decided to clean the river. This decision is viable if the smell is produced by the harmful fluids eliminated by industries or factories but what if the natural substances or the geographical area are responsible for odor in such case even cleaning of water will be of no use.
Though clean water adds to city’s property value, increases tourism as well as healthy government can decide to fund for its maintenance but here this argument of author fails to convince the government for increasing the funds
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'such as', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.252777777778 0.25644967241 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.202777777778 0.15541462614 130% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0777777777778 0.0836205057962 93% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0444444444444 0.0520304965353 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0527777777778 0.0272364105082 194% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.133333333333 0.125424944231 106% => OK
Participles: 0.075 0.0416121511921 180% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.65499813212 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0194444444444 0.026700313972 73% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0694444444444 0.113004496875 61% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0222222222222 0.0255425247493 87% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0111111111111 0.0127820249294 87% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2075.0 2731.13054187 76% => OK
No of words: 342.0 446.07635468 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.06725146199 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.57801047555 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.380116959064 0.378187486979 101% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.263157894737 0.287650121315 91% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.195906432749 0.208842608468 94% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.12865497076 0.135150697306 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65499813212 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 207.018472906 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.514619883041 0.469332199767 110% => OK
Word variations: 54.1123831116 52.1807786196 104% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 20.039408867 65% => OK
Sentence length: 26.3076923077 23.2022227129 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.4350634066 57.7814097925 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.615384615 141.986410481 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3076923077 23.2022227129 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.769230769231 0.724660767414 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 52.6234817814 51.9672348444 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.53703703704 1.8405768891 84% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295519951155 0.441005458295 67% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.119040883098 0.135418324435 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0582817785831 0.0829849096947 70% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.606129134408 0.58762219726 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.200814177744 0.147661913831 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117016897415 0.193483328276 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0739153278793 0.0970749176394 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.263917854675 0.42659136922 62% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0258463540253 0.0774707102158 33% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.178575355768 0.312017818177 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.063734783205 0.0698173142475 91% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 14.657635468 68% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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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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