The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
"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 Plaza 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.
The letter from a Central Plaza store owner recommend that skateboarding should be
prohibited in the Central Plaza to the editor. Also, they assume that if skateboarding is
prohibited, then business of Central Plaza will increase. But, owner is predicting about
increase in sales without any evidence. The owner needs to find out answers of many
questions which will arise after going through his/her assumptions.
Firstly, Is Central Plaza shops mainly based on skateboarding business? If Central Plaza
contains many shops like Electronics shops, Clothing shops, Footwear shops, and Game
zone, then increase in popularity of skateboarding will not readily affect on Central Plaza
store owners. Even if the skateboard users are increasing, the overall market of Central
Plaza should not be decreased because of their other shops. Since there is no statistical
evidence is given about how much amount of loss they are getting from last two years,
owner’s assumption is not valid.
Secondly, Is there any competitor of Central Plaza giving great discounts and low prices?
Does Central Plaza completing the need of nearby people? If the opponent of Central
Plaza have latest electronics and things which people will buy on daily basis, then sales of
Central Plaza will eventually decrease. Will prohibiting skateboarding decrease amount of
crimes and vandalism in Central Plaza?
On what basis are store owners predicting that business of Central Plaza will return to its
previously high levels? Its not clearly mentioned that how much lose shop owners are
getting in Plaza. What if the complaints of Central Plaza has been increased and hence,
sales are going down. Shop owners need to take a systematic survey of customers about their needs and should look through all the complaints thoroughly.
All in all, there are many unanswered questions should be solved before prohibiting
skateboard in Central Plaza. With cursory assumption of skateboarding is the cause of
reducing sales, Owner should not recommend prohibit of skateboarding. Owner should
think of ways which will increase sales to higher level.
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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: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 333 350
No. of Characters: 1735 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.272 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.21 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.633 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 120 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.526 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.807 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.474 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.376 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.376 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.134 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 8, column 69, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'effect'?
Suggestion: effect
...arity of skateboarding will not readily affect on Central Plaza store owners. Even if th...
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Line 15, column 7, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'have the latest'.
Suggestion: have the latest
...ople? If the opponent of Central Plaza have latest electronics and things which people wil...
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Line 19, column 25, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
... return to its previously high levels? Its not clearly mentioned that how much los...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, look, second, secondly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1822.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 332.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48795180723 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69773268672 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 534.6 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.9378455264 57.8364921388 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.8947368421 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4736842105 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.68421052632 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 25.0 5.15768463074 485% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.431868928106 0.218282227539 198% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163967814302 0.0743258471296 221% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105580124025 0.0701772020484 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15079149003 0.128457276422 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.116179959203 0.0628817314937 185% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.5979740519 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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