The following is a memorandum from the office of Mayor Harrison Peter Jones. “In order to relieve Briggsville’s notorious traffic congestion, Mayor Harrison Peter Jones plans to build a multi-million-dollar subway system. The subway will run through the major downtown areas, a part of the town where buses serve as the only form of public transportation. For years, residents have been complaining both about inconsistent buses and the general lack of safety while riding the buses. Additionally, the subway will be running twenty-four hours a day. Since motorists will spend less time in traffic, Mayor Harrison Peter Jones expects to see an immediate increase in worker productivity, which will improve the economy of Briggsville.” Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The plan to build a subway system, in order to mitigate Briggsville’s traffic congestions is based on a number of unwarranted assumptions upon which the success of the plan depends. If any of these assumptions don’t hold true, the plan will fail to ameliorate the traffic congestions. Moreover, the argument about this plan leading to economic growth is reif with logical fallacies.
First and foremost, the subway will be built merely through the major downtown areas which already have a public transportation system. It is assumed that the most congestions occur in this area, and that providing a more reliable alternative to buses could mitigate the situation. Considering the fact that buses, despite apparently being an unreliable means of transportation, are present in this area, this assumption is likely to be false. The mayor’s office should investigate which districts and roads contribute more to the congestions instead of assuming that downtown areas should be the focus of the plan.
Moreover, it is assumed that the new subway system would necessarily be more consistent and safer than the buses. It is unlikely that this holds true. As the number of people who use the subway as a means of transportation rises, so does the rate of crimes occuring on the subway, such as pick-pocketing and theft. Similarly, as the subways get more crowded, the chance of delays and aberrations in schedules gets higher. Therefore, using the subway won’t necessarily be a more satisfying alternative to riding the bus. The government should allocate some budget to ensuring the safety and abundance of trains in the new subway system.
The argument about the immediate effect of the plan on the economy of Briggsville is fallacious. There is no logical causal relation between less traffic and an immediate improvement in the economical state of a city. Spending less time in traffic won’t necessary render the population more productive, and it certainly doesn’t happen in a short period of time. Not only does it take time for the plan to have a noticeable impact on the decrease of traffic congestions, but it also takes time for the citizens to adapt to the new situation and possibly become more productive. Therefore, expecting an immediate improvement in the economy is not logical.
All in all, the success of the mayor’s office’s plan to combat traffic congestions depends on a number of unstated assumptions. Furthermore, the argument about the immediate effect of less traffic on the economy is fallacious.
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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: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 415 350
No. of Characters: 2068 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.513 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.983 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.872 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 152 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.12 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.536 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.051 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 336, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
...the argument about this plan leading to economical growth is reif with logical fallacies. ...
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Line 7, column 347, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... it certainly doesn’t happen in a short period of time. Not only does it take time for the pla...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, first, furthermore, if, may, moreover, similarly, so, therefore, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2141.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 411.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20924574209 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99584034075 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489051094891 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.7832879486 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.05 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.55 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199468740693 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0601277406066 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551300325614 0.0701772020484 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1155358923 0.128457276422 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042727125682 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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