In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
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 the prompt, the author stated that Prunty Country should undertake the improvement project: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving the visibility at dangerous intersections to improve highway safety as like as Butler Country do. The recommendation is drawn based on the success of the project taken by Butler Country, where fewer accidents occurred in last year than the previous year. Before admitting to this statement veritable, more evidence needs to present to dispel criticisms that can significantly weaken the conclusion.
Firstly, one question is raising about the car drivers of Prunty Country as they are not following the law to keep the speed limit within 45 miles. Will they keep the limit at 55 miles per hour if the highways are improved? What will be happened if they drive at a speed of more than 100 km? There is the possibility of transgression as they are not already obeying the law. So, if the drivers continue to drive at high speed, the alternative way won't work, and the situation will remain as in previous years.
Additionally, are the number of cars in Prunty Country and Butler Country the same? If there are more vehicles in the Prunty Country comparing its' roads and highways than Butler Country, numbers of car accidents won't decrease. It's common scenario happening accidents at busy highways more than the narrow roads where less transportation is used. If this is a fact for Butler Country highways, the recommendation given on the original argument will be flawed strongly.
Finally, another possible issue that can impair the conclusion of the prompt is the region of the Prunty Country is not the same as Butler Country. If they differ from one another, Prunty country is full of hills tracks while the flat and straight road is all over the Butler country. If this is true, judging the country which is not the same region isn't a rational decision. So, before coming to the conclusion, other issues should be taken into concern, or this nuance issue can damage the effectiveness of the new project.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to the reliance on several unwarranted assumptions Considering all these probable circumstances, before concluding, the author must think about probable hindrances. If more evidence takes the side of the project of highway improvement then it will possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation to improve the highway of Prunty County.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 414 350
No. of Characters: 2054 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.511 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.961 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.738 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 157 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.591 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.326 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 351, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...he country which is not the same region isnt a rational decision. So, before coming ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 239, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...r must think about probable hindrances. If more evidence takes the side of the pro...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, so, then, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2097.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 411.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10218978102 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81341388415 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506082725061 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 2.70958083832 369% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.7640389875 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.5 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8333333333 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.55555555556 5.70786347227 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22424765349 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738347421241 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736413744215 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124730220475 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.036630785526 0.0628817314937 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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