In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
My assessment on this argument indicates that, the argument seems plausible at the first glace but is not well reasoned. It can be drawn from the passage that though the speed limit on highways at Prunty country has decreased from 55 to 45 there is no change in the accidents taking place, it is clear that the people of Prunty exceed speed limit no matter what the barrier is. The speed barrier is not a matter of consideration but the driver’s intentions to regulate is.
Firstly, road improvement project undertook by the Butler was completed 5 years ago and the results are to be seen now, which is a great paradox. The results to show up immediately are the roads are widened, resurfaced, and visibility has been increased at the intersections. This implies that the reason behind the decrease in the road accidents is not due to the road widening or any other reasons. Further, we are unaware of the fact as to what are the other reasons which had made the decline possible. Butler country has a weak stand and cannot be good consideration.
Secondly, road conditions of Prunty are not know and hence any conclusion can’t be made in this regard. It would be insensitive to just implement the changes. The Puntry country has not seen any decrease in the accidents as has not taken necessary action on the drivers who are exceeding the speed limit. There has been no change done by the government to reduce their excess speed. Had the government taken some action it would have been easy to evaluate the reason behind the accidents.
Finally, the effort to reduce the speed limit goes into vane if there is none to fallow the limit. Implementing what Butler country has implemented might not change the scenario as the reasoning given by the author seems absurd. We need much more information to evaluate this argument.
Summing up, the author has given an insufficient data for the analysis. As the example given by the author is also absurd the argument doesn’t have a stand to be evaluated. It can be enhanced by detailed investigation there off.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 45, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'known'.
Suggestion: known
...ndly, road conditions of Prunty are not know and hence any conclusion can't be ...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d by detailed investigation there off.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'well', 'as to']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.245 0.25644967241 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.2075 0.15541462614 134% => OK
Adjectives: 0.05 0.0836205057962 60% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0525 0.0520304965353 101% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0225 0.0272364105082 83% => OK
Prepositions: 0.085 0.125424944231 68% => OK
Participles: 0.07 0.0416121511921 168% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.69582596004 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0325 0.026700313972 122% => OK
Particles: 0.005 0.001811407834 276% => OK
Determiners: 0.1425 0.113004496875 126% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0175 0.0255425247493 69% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0175 0.0127820249294 137% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2077.0 2731.13054187 76% => OK
No of words: 358.0 446.07635468 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.80167597765 6.12365571057 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.57801047555 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.326815642458 0.378187486979 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.22625698324 0.287650121315 79% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.173184357542 0.208842608468 83% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.117318435754 0.135150697306 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69582596004 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 207.018472906 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.469332199767 107% => OK
Word variations: 52.7750324224 52.1807786196 101% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 18.8421052632 23.2022227129 81% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8593986916 57.7814097925 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.315789474 141.986410481 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8421052632 23.2022227129 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.631578947368 0.724660767414 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 41.4678035872 51.9672348444 80% => OK
Elegance: 1.41592920354 1.8405768891 77% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.354597168577 0.441005458295 80% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.118929773087 0.135418324435 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.082915460934 0.0829849096947 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.568229281942 0.58762219726 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.173110775152 0.147661913831 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148674855887 0.193483328276 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0646918902591 0.0970749176394 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.471650900307 0.42659136922 111% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0549926631178 0.0774707102158 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.251122179394 0.312017818177 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0504837127779 0.0698173142475 72% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.33743842365 36% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.87684729064 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 14.657635468 89% => 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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