The following appeared in a letter to the editor of Parson City's local newspaper.
"In our region of Trillura, the majority of money spent on the schools that most students attend — the city-run public schools — comes from taxes that each city government collects. The region's cities differ, however, in the budgetary priority they give to public education. For example, both as a proportion of its overall tax revenues and in absolute terms, Parson City has recently spent almost twice as much per year as Blue City has for its public schools — even though both cities have about the same number of residents. Clearly, Parson City residents place a higher value on providing a good education in public schools than Blue City residents do." 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.
In a letter to the editor, the writer states that the quality of education is higher in Parson City than in the Public schools of Blue City. The argument is based on the fact that the amount spent on public education is greater in Parson City than in Blue city. However, the claim made cannot be verified based on the evidence provided in the argument and the following evidence are necessary to determine the viability of the claim.
To begin with, the writer did not mention the geographical and social environment of both cities. The social structure needs to be considered to analyze the situation presented above. For instance, the social rituals and the behavior of the family towards education can play a vital role in determining education quality. There might be some social groups that don’t give much priority to education in one city; while, in another city, people focused on education. If any of the above holds, then the argument is significantly weakened.
Similarly, the quality of education in Parson City is claimed to have better than the Blue city but based on what factors? Does the greater investment solely govern the quality of education? Of course not! For instance, the average grade of the students of Parson City may be greater or the passed-out students of the city are successful. More information is required so that we can be confirmed the educational quality of public schools in both cities.
In addition, the argument doesn’t mention the teachers’ quality. The teachers’ qualifications might be higher in one city while lower in another. Also, the quality of the student doesn’t depend on teachers alone but also on the students. What about the student's ability to gain information? Likewise, regarding all student of the same mental capacity is futile. If any of these have merit, then the argument as a whole doesn’t hold water.
In sum, the writer’s claim regarding the education quality of cities is unwarranted and the evidence provided is insufficient. Therefore, the aforementioned evidence needs to be provided in the form of systematic research to analyze the practicability of the argument.
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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: 21 15
No. of Words: 358 350
No. of Characters: 1737 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.35 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.852 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.706 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 132 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.048 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.55 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.762 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.315 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.371 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 253, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...ut also on the students. What about the students ability to gain information? Likewise, ...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, likewise, may, regarding, similarly, so, then, therefore, while, for instance, in addition, of course, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 6.0 28.8173652695 21% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 16.3942115768 177% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1803.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 354.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09322033898 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82718124866 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.468926553672 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 591.3 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.273525512 57.8364921388 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.15 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.70786347227 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.184534639095 0.218282227539 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0590150253433 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0767740260416 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109870626938 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0895259731498 0.0628817314937 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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