The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author of the letter avers that skateboard users in Central Plaza are causing the significant decrease in the number of shoppers and the increasing of litter and vandalism in the plaza. While it may be true that the plaza should ban skateboarding at first sight, a closer review of the letter sheds light on a plethora of unanswered questions, which undermine the recommendation.
To begin with, the author attributes the reduce in the number of shoppers in Central Plaza to the growing popularity of skatebording. There is no evidence, however, to prove the causal relationship between the two. Many other factors can also contribute to the decline of shoppers. For example, may be the overall prices of products in Central Plaza has rised so much that many customers are no longer visiting the stores. Before these and many other questions alike are answered, it would be too reckless for the author to claim that skateboard users affect the business in Central Plaza.
Additionally, another point in the letter that need to be viewed with caution is that the city ought to ban skateboarding in Central Plaza due to the amount of litter and vandalism in Central Plaza. Again, this accusation is ungrounded, for it does not provide evidence showing that the damages are really caused by skateboard users. To answer this question, the store owners need to closely study the behavior of skateboard users in the plaza, in case that it is other people that has caused the litter and vandalism in the plaza.
Last but not least, while the city ought to come up with a solution to improve the business in Central Plaza, it does not necessary mean that skateboarding should be prohibited. Even though it is skateboarding users that are causing the current problem, there are still other policies that could serve as a solution. It is likely that skateboard users bring their friends to the stores, which could benefit the business. May be skateboarding can be part of culture in Central Plaza under proper guidance, attracting many other customers to the plaza. In order to come up with a good solution, store owners need to know the habit and needs of skateboard users, as well as preferences of other customers.
In sum, as the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has witnessed a dramatic drop, it is imperative for the city to save the business. Nonetheless, it is not advisable to blame the growing skateboard users in the plaza for the suffer in business. Prior to making any decision, the city and store owners in the plaza are expected to consider all the relevant questions, instead of making unlogical conclusions based on obstentious phenomena.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 38, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
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Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...owing skateboard users in the plaza for the suffer in business. Prior to making any decisi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nonetheless, really, so, still, well, while, for example, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2216.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 449.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93541202673 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60321845022 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73901530667 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438752783964 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 697.5 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.1992772042 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.111111111 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9444444444 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61111111111 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.368207440263 0.218282227539 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12904030357 0.0743258471296 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0934806148286 0.0701772020484 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233808871309 0.128457276422 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0386670711211 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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 -- 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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