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 author proposes that Prunty County should take the same measures that Butler County took to improve their highway safety. This proposition is based on an argument that the road improvement measures improved the highway safety of the Butler County and they recorded fewer accidents in the County. However, this argument is flawed and based on unwarranted assumptions which will be highlighted in the following paragraphs.
First, the argument that the implementing the kind of road improvement project done in Butler County will lead to the same effect in Prunty County is not entirely true. Butler County and Prunty County are not the same and may not have exactly the same characteristics. Perhaps, the road use rules and regulations and population may be different in both Counties and these factors may also be contributing to the highway safety. For example, if the Prunty County has a higher proportion of young people which may be reckless in driving, the road improvement might not still improve the highway safety. This argument would have been strengthened if the author provided an objective evidence to show that both Counties are exactly similar in all aspects.
Furthermore, the author claims that the road improvement project in Butler County solely led to the highway safety, however, there is not substantial evidence to support this claim. What if there were other factors that the County put in place that the author did not consider. For instance, the highway patrol in the Butler County may be stricter and the County might have enacted stringent laws for defaulters which makes the road users more cautious. Therefore, this argument might have been more effective if the author had holistically assessed other factors that might influenced the cautious road usage.
In addition, the author’s argument that because there were fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago automatically implies that there were fewer accidents is flawed. What if not all the cases get reported because the accident victims did not want to involve the highway patrol? What if the accidents were not ghastly or they did not involve destruction of the government properties, hence they were taken lightly? Therefore, the claim does not hold water. However, this would have been substantial if the author objectively assessed the accidents that occur on the highway rather than making assumptions based on the number of reported cases.
In conclusion, based on the above stated shortcomings, the author’s argument is flawed and the proposal is not logical. Further evidence will be needed to evaluate and improve the argument to make the proposal acceptable
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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: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 435 350
No. of Characters: 2229 1500
No. of Different Words: 177 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.567 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.124 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.56 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.895 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.198 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.842 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.364 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.364 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 121, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Further,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, still, then, therefore, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2277.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 435.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23448275862 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65595947931 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.413793103448 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 704.7 705.55239521 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2068061106 57.8364921388 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.842105263 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8947368421 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.68421052632 5.70786347227 135% => OK
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: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296492018845 0.218282227539 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107262262629 0.0743258471296 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0746830672538 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17727942399 0.128457276422 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0839542195722 0.0628817314937 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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