In order to vote in school elections in Lowville, you need only be a citizen, have lived
in the district for 30 days, and be over the age of 18. Concerned that the turnout at
recent school elections has been quite low, with only about 20 percent of eligible
voters coming to the polls, school officials have discussed changing the regulations
to require that voters be registered with the board of elections, as they must be for a
general or municipal election. They posit that voters who are registered are already
committed to the electoral process and thus are more likely to come to the polls for
school elections as well.
In school elections in Lowville, the voting candidate has been quite low, wherefrom eligible candidates only 20% willing to vote and coming to the polls. Primarily the school has a regulation that in order to vote, the person must be 18 years old or more and has to be lived in the district for 30 days. In order to solve the shortage of voters, the school decides to lower down the regulation and making it the same as general or municipal election requirement. The school community expects voters who registered and already committed to the elections process are more likely to come to the school elections polls as well. However, before this argument can be properly evaluated, two major questions must be answered.
First of all, does the standing candidate in the election a popular person? In another word, does the standing candidate has the capability to fight in the voting process? It might be possible the eligible people are not coming to vote, as they think the standing candidate is not popular or lacking valuable capabilities to became a candidate. Therefore people are not interested in voting at all. Therefore if the school makes the voting requirement as same as general or municipal election, still they could surprise with the lower result. For instance, in general, or municipal election, the candidate is very popular and people know he or she can do some incredible job. On the other hand, in school election the candidate is remarkably poor, therefore people are not interested to come to the poll for voting. If the above statement is true, then the argument does not hold water.
Secondly, what are the voting process liked by people? Nowadays people are very busy, it might be possible that people want to a online process rather came to the poll station. For example, most of the people are busy in 9 to 5 job and school voting time is in a weekday 10am to 4 pm. It might be possible that people in office have not had the chance to go to the poll station. Moreover, everything nowadays is going online. Therefore people in Lowville, might want also an online process for voting. Therefore changing the regulations to require that voters be registered, might not going to help to increase the voting number until or unless school makes the voting process online. If the above statement is true, the argument is flawed.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is flawed due to these unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the above-stated question with more evidence, then it might be possible to properly evaluate the argument.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 443 350
No. of Characters: 2087 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.588 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.711 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.54 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.261 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.314 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.696 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.317 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.489 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 122, Rule ID: DOES_NP_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'have'?
Suggestion: have
...other word, does the standing candidate has the capability to fight in the voting p...
^^^
Line 5, column 346, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...ble capabilities to became a candidate. Therefore people are not interested in voting at ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 400, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...le are not interested in voting at all. Therefore if the school makes the voting requirem...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 128, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...t might be possible that people want to a online process rather came to the poll ...
^
Line 9, column 427, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...r, everything nowadays is going online. Therefore people in Lowville, might want also an ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 503, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...want also an online process for voting. Therefore changing the regulations to require tha...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, well, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in general, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2157.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 443.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8690744921 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58776254615 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62085401443 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44920993228 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 695.7 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.2577311309 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.7826086957 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2608695652 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.82608695652 5.70786347227 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.287299141181 0.218282227539 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0816236024249 0.0743258471296 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0827716813981 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175789271589 0.128457276422 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.142938495724 0.0628817314937 227% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.32 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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.