The council of Maple County, concerned about the county’s becoming
overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the
development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also
concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing,
could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county.
Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar
measure ten years ago and its housing prices have increased only modestly
since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted
restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago,
and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently
predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant
increase in housing prices in Maple County.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be
answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on
which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to
these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The council of Maple county is concerened about overdeveloping of the farmlands in this region, so they look for a measure to prevent overdeveloping. They predict that by putting restrictions on developing, the prices of houses will increase. In order to have a solid prediction, the council should answer some pointed questions.
First, is the economy in ten years and fifteen years ago the same as now? Based on what happened in many years ago, they cannot predict that the same happening would be plausible now. It’s possible that there was a depression ten years ago that restriction in developing houses, did not cause increasing in house’s price. Also, in fifteen years ago, it is likely that great economy encouraged people to buy houses and consequently the prices doubled.
Another question that is important to be answered that what was the diffreneces between Chestnut county, pin county and Maple county? The council should examine each county’s demographics, and the average income per household. Maybe the residents of Chestnut county had a low average income per household, and they could not afford buying houses and consequently the prices did not increase significantly. If the population of Maple county is lower than Chestnut county, and Maple’s residents have higher income, it will be more demand for buying house and the prices will be increased and vice versa. A blind comparison between several locations will not help the council to have a prescise prediction.
It’s important that Maple county’s council examine the opponents and proponents. Do they have conflict of interest? Are they biased or objective about developing housing in Maple county? If some of them are among builders that their profits have intertwined with this decision, will not be logical to consider their opinions. If opponents are among farmers, it’s possible that they dispute the developing of the farmlands. Because their futures and revenues are based on this decision.
All in all, to have a solid decision, the council should answer some questions and examine them. Opponents have claimed several statistics which without answering the important questions, the council of Maple county would not be able to predict correctly.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 357 350
No. of Characters: 1832 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.347 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.132 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.646 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.85 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.567 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.35 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.317 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.317 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.094 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 333, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to buy'.
Suggestion: to buy
...er household, and they could not afford buying houses and consequently the prices did ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, if, look, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1896.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 357.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31092436975 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77117324833 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487394957983 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 580.5 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.9355418143 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.85 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.2 5.70786347227 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.260105867435 0.218282227539 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0905923330093 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0949558181572 0.0701772020484 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157900012523 0.128457276422 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0712848207252 0.0628817314937 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
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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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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