The following is a petition to the city council of Centerville:
"Over the past three years, there has been a marked increase in cases of 'sidewalk rage,' similar to the irrational anger drivers experience on the road, but instead among sidewalk walkers. The result is an increase in assaults, property damage, and disruptions of normal pedestrian traffic. In order to address this growing problem, the council must ban cell phone use on sidewalks. Not only do people texting or using their phones slow down pedestrian traffic, but they are also more likely to walk into the road or bump into other walkers. Children are especially vulnerable because they are too short to be easily seen. Middletown passed such a ban and not only have they heard no complaints, but the reported incidents of sidewalk crime has gone down significantly."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument
The petition to the city state council of centreville to ban the use of cell phones along the walkways is flawed in the following ways.
The argument assumes that the use of cell phone on the walkways is the only reason responsible for assaults and pedestrian traffic. The argument fails to recorgnize what other factors might cause the pedestrian trafic. For instance, people walking along the walkways tend to have their attension drawn to spots where they display or perform shows. This can cause trafic along the walkway too. People can stand indiscriminately along the walkway which can narrow the passage leading to bumping into each other and consequently assaults and even robbery due to the crowd. Until person writing the petition proves using cell phone to be the only reason for pedestrain trafic, only then can this argument be logically sound. Otherwise it is unwarranted.
Furthermore, the argument assumes that the law that worked in middletown will also be applicable in centreville. Considering that these two towns are separate and different regions has different people and standard of living differs. The people of meddletown may have better life and less struggle. Nothing much to worry about and someone from meddletown using the walk way might be for an evening stroll. In contrast, those who use the walkway in centreville might be in hast to meet up with work or working too hard that they are "emotionally charged" almost all the time due to how frustrating life is treating them and hence, bumping into each other easily results to assaults and trafic on pedestran lane. Until the author categorically describes the living situations in these two separate towns as being identical, otherwise, the argument is flawed in this aspect.
In conclusion, the assumptions that the use of cellphone along the walkway and the recommendation of adopting the law used in meddletown in centreville is not logically sound until proven otherwise, the argument is flawed.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 13 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 324 350
No. of Characters: 1631 1500
No. of Different Words: 169 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.243 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.034 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.67 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 114 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.609 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.467 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.338 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.338 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.107 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 132, 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.
...le for assaults and pedestrian traffic. The argument fails to recorgnize what other...
^^^
Line 2, column 721, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Otherwise,
...n can this argument be logically sound. Otherwise it is unwarranted. Furthermore, the ar...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, furthermore, hence, if, may, so, then, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1673.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 324.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16358024691 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82961744282 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521604938272 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 705.55239521 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.7085309276 57.8364921388 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.533333333 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0209945281315 0.218282227539 10% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00890535021139 0.0743258471296 12% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0286106578704 0.0701772020484 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0304814273858 0.128457276422 24% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0485849393676 0.0628817314937 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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