The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author' s argument is based on a number of assumptions and lacks any proper reasoning as to how or why limiting moped rental would help reduce the number of accidents.
Firstly, the author claimed that mopeds are a popular form of transportation on Balmer Island. However, they have not mentioned how they arrived at this conclusion. Was a survey conducted? Or have they approximated this based on their personal experience.
Further, while the author has mentioned the population increase to 100000, they have failed to provide a detailed statistics of the population which is imperative in order to discern whether this increase is significant, and whether this surplus consists of people who can drive mopeds at all.
The author has also failed to consider that the mopeds could be a form of public transportation like a taxi service. In such a scenario, curbing moped rentals would do nothing to reduce accidents as most taxi services use their own vehicles.
Their bold assumption that reducing the number of mopeds would lead to annual reduction in moped accidents like the neighboring island has three faults. First, simply reducing the number of vehicles isn' t sufficient to reduce accidents. The drivers as well as pedestrians need to be briefed on the importance of road safety time and again. Second, while this method may be successful during the summer months, if the frequency of accidents throughout the rest of the year is high, an annual reduction in unachievable. Finally, the author' s assumption that restriction on rentals will help reduce accidents in Balmer Island solely because it worked in another town portrays him as a naive person, thus reducing his credibility.
Although the author' s recommendation may be successful, they have failed to provide sufficient evidence to make a convincing argument as to how or why it may work.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, so, thus, well, while, as to, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1566.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 306.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11764705882 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88728403061 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.529411764706 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 66.4365586596 57.8364921388 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.857142857 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8571428571 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92857142857 5.70786347227 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.216227812909 0.218282227539 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0749790326374 0.0743258471296 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0761119437653 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0960555724649 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647133126266 0.0628817314937 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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 -- 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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