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 states that the popularity of skateboard had increased drastically. However, the author didn't explicitly mention the trend in usage of the skateboards in Central Plaza. We need to know how has the number of skateboard users been in Central Plaza. Has it been decreasing? Has it been increasing or has it remained the same? Has there been a drastic change? Without answers to these questions, we cannot for sure make a correlation between the sales in the Plaza and the number of skateboard users.
The store owner also mentions about the trend of sales over an exteded period i.e; two years. This time period is a considerable amount of time during which there could be other shopping complexes opening up in the vicinty of the Plaza which could have decreased the sales in the Plaza. So the question we should ask is: How has the development in the vicinty of the Plaza been? The store owner gives no information about the commercial activity in the vicinity of the Plaza which makes us skeptical about the recommendation given by the store owner.
We should also need answer to the question: How has the overall trend been in the purchasing power of the consumers? It is plausible that the sales in the Plaza have been decreasing because the region is under recession. If this is the case then, prohibiting skateboarding in the Plaze will not cause the effect that the store owner stated.
By mentioning in the context that the litter and vandalism had increased in the Plaze, the store owner suggests that this is due skateboard users in the Plaza. One question we need to answer here is that are the skateboard users responsible for litter and vandalism? If they are the culprits, then prohibiting skateboarding may decrease litter and vandalism eventually encourage people to shop in Central Plaza.
As we can see, the anwers to the above questions will help us evaluate if prohibiting skateboarding in Central Plaze will actually help increase the sales in the Plaza. It would be premature with the given information to come to a hasty conclusion that expelling skateboarding in the Plaza will improve sales.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 364 350
No. of Characters: 1731 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.368 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.755 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.707 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.158 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.618 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.368 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.589 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.253 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 100, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...reased drastically. However, the author didnt explicitly mention the trend in usage o...
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Line 1, column 335, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...increasing or has it remained the same? Has there been a drastic change? Without an...
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Line 17, column 87, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nd vandalism had increased in the Plaze, the store owner suggests that this is du...
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Line 23, column 111, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... if prohibiting skateboarding in Central Plaze will actually help increase the sa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, however, if, may, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1796.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 362.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96132596685 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74067677383 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455801104972 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 556.2 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.6238383528 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.5263157895 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0526315789 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.21052631579 5.70786347227 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.319395430891 0.218282227539 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114390095126 0.0743258471296 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530978960856 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185635420252 0.128457276422 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0609772554952 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.3799401198 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 12.3882235529 44% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.