"Over the past two years , the number of shoppers in central plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many central plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in central plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in central will return to its previously high levels."
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.
A recommendation has been made for the city to prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza due to the fact that,
majority of the store owners in the central plaza believe that they are experiencing a decrease in sales, because of the corresponding increase in the number of skateboard users in the plaza.
For the recommendation to have its predicted effect, it would need to answer the question of cause and effect. How does the increase in skateboard users in the plaza affect sales? This argument does not say how the increase in the number of skateboard users affects the sales of the store owners. If the argument had said that as a result of the increased amount of the skateboarders, the shoppers were uncomfortable, or the place was rowdy for the shoppers. Then we can agree that a ban of skateboard users from central plaza, will lead to an increase in the sales of store owners.
Also, there is the question of things changing. Did the store owners change the goods they usually stock? or Did the store owners not listen to the needs of the shoppers, and stock up on what their customers want? As time changes, individual preferences changes. So this may also be a case of the store owners stocking up on the same thing over the years, and the needs of their customers has changed. If they do not attend to the needs of their customers, then a ban on skateboard users in the plaza will not bring the desired rise in sales.
Additionally, we have to address the vagueness of the recommendation, based on the fact that the store owners believe, that it is the rise in skateboard users, that caused their fall in sales, and led to increased vandalism and litter. Did the store owners see the skateboarders litter and vandalize the area? We cant base an argument just on peoples believe, which sometimes are usually wrong. An argument has to be backed up with facts. Had the argument said, that the skateboard users were actually seen littering and vandalizing the plaza, Which in turn made it unsafe for the shoppers to come to the plaza to shop. Then recommendation will actually give the predicted results.
Ultimately, the answers to the questions of cause and effect, things changing, and vagueness if answered from a neutral perspective, we would see that the recommendation may have the predicted results to an extent.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 405 350
No. of Characters: 1877 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.486 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.635 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.683 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 111 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 83 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.221 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.538 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.132 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 107, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
...rs change the goods they usually stock? or Did the store owners not listen to the ...
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Line 8, column 314, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...rders litter and vandalize the area? We cant base an argument just on peoples believ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, if, may, so, then, as to, as a result
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: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1937.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 405.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78271604938 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77922486312 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.42962962963 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 594.9 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.2768743417 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.947368421 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3157894737 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.78947368421 5.70786347227 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286257134724 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.083754794236 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101602343891 0.0701772020484 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177179499761 0.128457276422 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128159532314 0.0628817314937 204% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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