"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 above given prompt suggests that the store owners in Central Plaza think that the increase in popularity of skateboarding in Central Plaza has negatively affected their business. They are of the opinion that the increase in litter and vandalism has also deterred prospective customers from visiting their stores. There seems to be a hint that the store owners are attributing the increase in litter and vandalism to the skateboarders who frequent Central Plaza. They feel that if the city prohibits skateboarding in Central Plaza, their business will return to the previously high levels. It seems that the store owners are under a wrong conception that banning skateboarding would make their businesses return to the previously high levels. The loss in business can be attributed to several factors and it may happen that skateboarding is not one of them.
Firstly, it has been stated that the decrease in business is due to the skateboarders that have encroached upon Central Plaza. It seems that there is no base to such an acquisition. There could be various other reasons for the decrease in the number of people visiting Central Plaza. One of the possibilities would be the cleanliness in general. It is stated that there has been an increase in litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. There is a possibility that the authorized personnel are not doing their task of picking up the litter spread around Central Plaza. This could deter people from visiting the shops in Central Plaza. Or else, there could be a new shopping complex that has come up in the city with better services and stores, that might have attracted the former customers of Central Plaza towards it.
Secondly, the store owners are optimistic about the fact that the restrictions on skateboarding in Central Plaza would bring back their previously high levels of business. The proof for such a claim is found to be missing from the argument provided. The argument states that the number of shoppers has been declining at a steady pace over the past two years. On the contrary, the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. This would suggest that the skateboarders might have started frequenting Central Plaza when they realized that the number of shoppers visiting it has decreased considerably. This would mean that the reason for the decreasing number of customers should not be attributed to the increase in skateboarders.
Additionally, the letter above implicitly suggests that the shop owners of Central Plaza are attributing the increase in litter and vandalism to the skateboarders who have started to frequent Central Plaza. There is no definitive proof for such a claim. There could be another theory to this situation which would include miscreants entering the Central Plaza and littering the place all over. This could mean that the skateboarders are being wrongly accused by the store owners.
The store owners seem to point their fingers at the skateboarders for their drop in business and the lack of shoppers at Central Plaza. But their claims do not have evidences that are strong enough. The evidences have a lot of loopholes that prevents a reader from coming to a definitive conclusion.
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Comments
e-rater score 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: 27 15
No. of Words: 525 350
No. of Characters: 2642 1500
No. of Different Words: 203 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.787 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.032 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.768 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 135 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.444 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.483 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.296 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.325 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.49 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, in general, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 28.0 13.6137724551 206% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 49.0 28.8173652695 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2702.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 525.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14666666667 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78673985869 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81832294418 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.390476190476 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 815.4 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.0222451791 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.074074074 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4444444444 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14814814815 5.70786347227 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.45622488177 0.218282227539 209% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136593789136 0.0743258471296 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102103952087 0.0701772020484 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.281941544897 0.128457276422 219% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0701894574682 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => 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: 12.59 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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