The following appears in a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg News:
"The tufted groundhog lives in the coastal wetlands of West Lansburg. Ancient records suggest that the tufted groundhog once numbered in the millions. Since they were declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2004, development along the coastal wetlands has been prohibited. Now local development interests are lobbying for the West Lansburg council to allow an access road to be built along the edge of wetlands. Neighboring Eastern Carpenteria, which had a similar sanctuary, has seen its sea otter population decline since the repeal of its sanctuary status in 1978. In order to preserve the region's biodiversity and ensure a healthy environment, the West Lansburg council should not allow the road to be built."
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 argument, the author concludes that the construction of road access along the edge of wetlands will negatively affect biodiversity and healthy environment. This conclusion he made based on certain premises which of proven would hold water. However, such assumptions are not viable based on the three reasons.
Firstly, the author assumes that the road construction will enable access to the coastal wetlands of West Lansburg which will in turn contribute to the decline of tufted groundhog. For instance, the author assumes that human contact is detrimental to the life of the groundhog. What happens if studies shows that human and tufted groundhog relationship is not one that affects the former?
In addition, the author assumes that no other factors contribute to the decline of tufted groundhogs in the terrain. What happens if it's proven that certain animals feed on tufted groundhogs and that the population of this animals are significantly high? Take for instanc that the weather condition at this particular location is not good for the groundhogs or climate change has affected the wetlands region of Lansburg and this affected the population under study? This will no doubt undermines the premises on which the argument is based.
Lastly, the author assumes that the living condition resulting from the the decline at both Lansburg and Eastern Carpenteria are the same. This assumption seems very unlikely. If for example, tufted groundhogs at Eastern Carpenteria are subjected harsh weather conditions or there was pollution
Comments
e-rater score report
No. of Words: 244 350
Minimum 250 words wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 244 350
No. of Characters: 1280 1500
No. of Different Words: 122 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.952 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.246 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.684 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.769 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.35 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.346 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.575 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 219, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...d groundhogs and that the population of this animals are significantly high? Take fo...
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Line 5, column 394, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'wetlands'' or 'wetland's'?
Suggestion: wetlands'; wetland's
...hogs or climate change has affected the wetlands region of Lansburg and this affected th...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 69, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...hat the living condition resulting from the the decline at both Lansburg and Eastern Ca...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 69, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...hat the living condition resulting from the the decline at both Lansburg and Eastern Ca...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 237, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ed groundhogs at Eastern Carpenteria are subjected harsh weather conditions or th...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, so, for example, for instance, in addition, no doubt, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 55.5748502994 49% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1310.0 2260.96107784 58% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 244.0 441.139720559 55% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36885245902 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74688017798 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 204.123752495 59% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.495901639344 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 705.55239521 55% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.5144884217 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.769230769 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7692307692 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.92307692308 5.70786347227 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.219203412722 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0764277202335 0.0743258471296 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067008189778 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135572849226 0.128457276422 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0830507210682 0.0628817314937 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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