The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting

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The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.

The author of the argument purportedly asserts that Maple County has improved and council come up with an idea that farmland should be restricted but this idea will increase significantly the price of houses. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which some critical, yet ignored question need to be addressed.

First, the author contends that such limitation will terminate in high price of houses in Maple County. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since, a question that might arise is whether restriction of available farmland in county will decrease price of houses. One point that should be considered is that the author do not show any information about economic situation in county. Indeed, there is possibility that economic recession provide fertile ground for increasing the price of houses or perhaps other factor such as industrial purposes have influenced the price of lands. It is also important to say that the author do not show to the extent farmlands in County impact houses' price. In fact, maybe limitation of farmland do not increase the price of houses in residential area.

The author also attributes that chestnut county ten years ago enact such restriction and the price of houses increase gradually. Although it might seem tenable at face, it has some detects since you can always ask this question if chestnut county was overdeveloped same as Maple and also was in identical situation. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that maybe the demand for houses in chestnut were lower than in Maple ten years ago or perhaps Chestnut council had limited not only farmland but also everything related to the increasing of houses' price. Alongside that, there is possibility that Chestnut County benefited from best economic situation rather than Maple County.

Finally, as set forth by the author Fifteen years ago Pine County has restricted the residential houses and the price had increased notably. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if restriction of residential houses could prevent a County from overdeveloping. One point that should not go unnoticed is that perhaps Pine County had experienced economic recession in that era and after Fifteen years the price of houses decrease significantly overtime. Moreover, Maple County want to stop development by limit the farmland, which differ completely from residential area in Pine County.

Having scrutinized the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are a number of questions, having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 652, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'from the best'.
Suggestion: from the best
...sibility that Chestnut County benefited from best economic situation rather than Maple Co...
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Line 9, column 214, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...could add to the logic of each premise.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'while', 'in fact', 'such as']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.267223382046 0.25644967241 104% => OK
Verbs: 0.167014613779 0.15541462614 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.062630480167 0.0836205057962 75% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0751565762004 0.0520304965353 144% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0146137787056 0.0272364105082 54% => OK
Prepositions: 0.146137787056 0.125424944231 117% => OK
Participles: 0.0480167014614 0.0416121511921 115% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.70433415474 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0167014613779 0.026700313972 63% => OK
Particles: 0.00208768267223 0.001811407834 115% => OK
Determiners: 0.0939457202505 0.113004496875 83% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.027139874739 0.0255425247493 106% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0187891440501 0.0127820249294 147% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2741.0 2731.13054187 100% => OK
No of words: 444.0 446.07635468 100% => OK
Chars per words: 6.17342342342 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.385135135135 0.378187486979 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.277027027027 0.287650121315 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.209459459459 0.208842608468 100% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.130630630631 0.135150697306 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70433415474 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 207.018472906 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452702702703 0.469332199767 96% => OK
Word variations: 49.8731008899 52.1807786196 96% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 24.6666666667 23.2022227129 106% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2421947623 57.7814097925 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.277777778 141.986410481 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6666666667 23.2022227129 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.722222222222 0.724660767414 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 52.3693693694 51.9672348444 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.79674796748 1.8405768891 98% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.553202226975 0.441005458295 125% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.103416183861 0.135418324435 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0580385326761 0.0829849096947 70% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.590559186998 0.58762219726 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.139377166073 0.147661913831 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.24812262012 0.193483328276 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0860856656573 0.0970749176394 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.417845512382 0.42659136922 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0857012714797 0.0774707102158 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.392982817361 0.312017818177 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350280716484 0.0698173142475 50% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.87684729064 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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