In a study of the reading habits of Waymarsh citizens conducted by the University of Waymarsh, most respondents said they preferred literary classics as reading material. However, a second study conducted by the same researchers found that the type of book most frequently checked out of each of the public libraries in Waymarsh was the mystery novel. Therefore, it can be concluded that the respondents in the first study had misrepresented their reading preferences.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
While the survey and the research may prove to be fruitful initiatives to be able to understand reading habits of Waymarsh, the argument depends on three unsubstantiated assumptions that hinder the persuasiveness of the author's claim.
Firstly, the writer of the prompt assumes that all the people in Waymarsh go to public libraries to read, which causes a catastrophic inference for the writer. Why should people go to libraries just to read? In the end, reading is not a research issue. When the technology made the lives of people so easier, why should people bother themselves to go to libraries just to read something. Moreover, nowadays people don't even need material books anymore. There are many convenient ways to exploit this habit. Laptops, tablets, e-book readers and many more now supplant actual books. Thus, assuming that readers only read in libraries is an egregious mistake that can mislead the survey immensely.
Secondly, the author presumes that the respondents of the survey and library goers are the same people. Because of this mistake, correlation link between the survey and library check out results is broken, hence that leads to a misleading result. In addition, taking what respondents tell during the survey at face value can be erroneous. Initially, the survey should be reliable, valid and representative. For example, when the survey was conducted, how were the respondents chosen? Were they asked how many books they read in a month? And to be able to relate their interaction with the library opportunities, they should be asked how many times they visit public libraries. If these requirements are not met, evidently, the result will be unreliable.
Thirdly, the time of survey and the research on the libraries is not mentioned in the prompt, which brings questions into the minds of the people. If a ten year old survey's results were utilized for this research, it may be quite deceptive. Maybe the results of the survey was very representative and dependable, but after ten year period the tastes of the people of Waymarsh has changed. Maybe a mystery novel writer from Waymarsh became very famous, won Noble prize in Literature and altered the choices of people living in Waymarsh. Without additional information about when survey and research are done, expounding the results will be futile.
Overall, the results of the survey and research have too much dissimilarities and leave too many questions unanswered to use them as justification. Hence, the prompt is far from being cogent and persuasive without these problems addressed.
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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: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 419 350
No. of Characters: 2103 1500
No. of Different Words: 218 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.524 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.019 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.706 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: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.458 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.176 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.296 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.49 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 415, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ad something. Moreover, nowadays people dont even need material books anymore. There...
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Line 9, column 58, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...lts of the survey and research have too much dissimilarities and leave too many ques...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, while, for example, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2169.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 418.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18899521531 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81209995972 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533492822967 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 660.6 705.55239521 94% => 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: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.1112629137 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.375 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4166666667 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08333333333 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.149305982072 0.218282227539 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0495699800482 0.0743258471296 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0437413058129 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0859028942284 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412695794629 0.0628817314937 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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
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