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
The given argument talks about improving the highway safety of Prunty county. Here they have assumed that Prunty county should follow the footprints of Butler county for improving the highway safety as they have done five years ago.
First of all, direct comparison of two counties may not be valid, as the geographical nature, total area, population/ number of vehicles, the distinction between group of people who drive in these two specific counties may not be same. The survey needs to be done to gather data considering these points.
The conclusion made with decreased speed limit from 55 to 45 in all over the county since last year with the statement that this effort has failed. The statistical data has to be provided to agree to this conclusion of failure. The change has to be observed for more duration considering different factors such as weather conditions, visibility, etc.
Secondly, the suggestion of following Butler county in terms of improving highways does not provide any understanding of the difference between roads and other aspects to provide highway safety of these two counties. Moreover this improvement done by Butler county is before five years, which can not be compared with the current scenario.
The comparison of the road accidents of Butler county which decreased by 25% than last five years can not be correlated with the Prunty county. The comparison should be made with respect to road accidents during that particular year between two countys. The data provided here does not hold any value in order to agree with the suggestion to follow the footprints of Butler county.
Thus a proper statistical data with survey has to be provided in order to support the change and its implication.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 286 350
No. of Characters: 1416 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.112 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.951 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.559 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 106 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 67 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.716 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.372 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.59 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.11 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 148, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... statement that this effort has failed. The statistical data has to be provided to ...
^^^
Line 4, column 228, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...to agree to this conclusion of failure. The change has to be observed for more dura...
^^^
Line 6, column 218, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...e highway safety of these two counties. Moreover this improvement done by Butler county ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 255, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...at particular year between two countys. The data provided here does not hold any va...
^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...low the footprints of Butler county. Thus a proper statistical data with survey h...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, as to, such as, first of all, with respect to
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: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 11.1786427146 18% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1455.0 2260.96107784 64% => OK
No of words: 286.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08741258741 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62099963795 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 204.123752495 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.486013986014 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 445.5 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.6677356055 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.923076923 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 5.70786347227 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266038193452 0.218282227539 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0984370686982 0.0743258471296 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0907069487018 0.0701772020484 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137731597951 0.128457276422 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0812767780294 0.0628817314937 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 98.500998004 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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