The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Clearview newspaper.
“In the next mayoral election, residents of Clearview should vote for Ann Green, who is a member of the Good Earth Coalition, rather than for Frank Braun, a member of the Clearview town council, because the current members are not protecting the environment. For example, during the past year the number of factories in Clear view has doubled, air pollution levels have increased, and the local hospital has treated 25% more patient with respiratory illnesses. If we elect Ann green, the environmental problems in Clear view will certainly be solved”.
As technological advancement progresses, so does some of the hazards that accompanies it. In the latter above, the writer contends that the population of factories in Clearview has increased over the years and this has invariably resulted in an increase in the amount of respiratory illnesses being treated in Clearview. In addition, the writer lends credibility to the fact that the members of the town council are negligent in their duty of protecting the environment and therefore a new mayor who is not a member of the town council should be elected. However, I aver to say that this argument is logically flawed and has failed to consider some counter factors.
The writer contends the voting of Frank Braun as the next mayoral candidate and instead suggested that Ann Green should be voted in as the next mayoral candidate because he is a member of the town council, reason being that; the members of the town council has renege on their duty of protecting Clearview. No evidence was provided to bolster this claim because we do not know if the responsibility of protecting Clearview is a responsibility of the members of the town council. Perhaps there is a task force in charge of the welfare of the town. In addition, the increase in factories might be in a bid to provide more job opportunities.
Furthermore, the writer lend credibility to his claim that the number of factories has increased over the years and hence the increase in air pollution. This assertion fails to recognize the fact that the air pollution could have been from other sources; perhaps lack of proper waste disposal management, lack of proper hygiene amidst the resident of Clearview or the use if insecticide or pesticide on their farm land. In addition, there is no proof that the air pollution is from the factories. The factory might even be located far from the residential area in Clearview.
In addition, the writer further corroborated his claim that not only has air pollution increased in Clearview, but also claimed that there is 25% increase in number of patient treated in the local hospital for respiratory illnesses. The people treated might not be residence of Clearview but rather people from neighboring town. The respiratory illnesses being treated can be asthma, obstructive pulmonary disease which might be due to genetics and not necessarily due to air pollution.
Lastly, the writer asserts that if Ann Green becomes the next mayor, the environmental problem would certainly be solved without providing any evidence to strengthen the claim. What if Ann Green was eventually elected and he made rules to cob air pollution and no one followed the rules? Rules without implementation are futile.
In conclusion, for the author to lend more credibility to hid claim, has to substantiate the fact that the air pollution is due to the increased number of factories, and also he has to present tenable reports that the increase in respiratory illnesses treated are due to air pollution and that the treated patients are residents of Clearview.
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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: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 507 350
No. of Characters: 2493 1500
No. of Different Words: 209 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.745 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.917 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.817 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 147 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 101 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.684 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.506 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.328 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.588 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.133 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 50, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...logical advancement progresses, so does some of the hazards that accompanies it. In the lat...
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Line 1, column 215, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ew has increased over the years and this has invariably resulted in an increase i...
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Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...iled to consider some counter factors. The writer contends the voting of Frank ...
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Line 2, column 143, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...gested that Ann Green should be voted in as the next mayoral candidate because he...
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Line 2, column 237, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... of the town council, reason being that; the members of the town council has rene...
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Line 2, column 275, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'reneged'.
Suggestion: reneged
...t; the members of the town council has renege on their duty of protecting Clearview. ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...id to provide more job opportunities. Furthermore, the writer lend credibility...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...from the residential area in Clearview. In addition, the writer further corrobor...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... not necessarily due to air pollution. Lastly, the writer asserts that if Ann G...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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...les without implementation are futile. In conclusion, for the author to lend mo...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...respiratory illnesses treated are due to air pollution and that the treated patie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, lastly, may, so, then, therefore, as to, in addition, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2542.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 507.0 441.139720559 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01380670611 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74517233601 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8908419119 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.428007889546 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 790.2 705.55239521 112% => 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: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 85.4217174148 57.8364921388 148% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.789473684 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6842105263 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.31578947368 5.70786347227 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219847442171 0.218282227539 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.063364558634 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0682214523218 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116420727572 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0491140656463 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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