"Traffic here in Waymarsh is becoming a problem. Although just three years ago a state traffic survey showed that the typical driving commuter took 20 minutes to get to work, the commute now takes closer to 40 minutes, according to the survey just completed. Members of the town council already have suggested more road building to address the problem, but as well as being expensive, the new construction will surely disrupt some of our residential neighborhoods. It would be better to follow the example of the nearby city of Garville. Last year Garville implemented a policy that rewards people who share rides to work, giving them coupons for free gas. Pollution levels in Garville have dropped since the policy was implemented, and people from Garville tell me that commuting times have fallen considerably. There is no reason why a policy like Garville's shouldn't work equally well in Waymarsh."
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 conclusion that was stated by the author says that Waymarsh could solve the problem of delayed commuting time by simply adopting the Garville’s policy as the initial suggestions by the members of the town council seems to be ineffective and in turn could turn out to be a whole new problem. However, this conclusion might not hold water due to three unwarranted assumptions made by the author.
First of all, is the survey that was taken to show the average commute time based on scientific research? Does it consider multiple distinctive factors that might be different three ago? Perhaps people’s job might’ve changed to a different location which requires them to travel longer. It is possible that the condition of the roads were in much better shape three years ago and since then they’ve been deteriorating which could cause a delay in travelling. If any of the above examples turn out to be true, then the author’s assumption holds no water.
Second of all, is the professional population that commute in Garville same as Waymarsh? The policy has a rewarding system,where people are rewarded when they share a cab to work. Perhaps the working population of Waymarsh is superior where its city council can’t afford to reward every single individual a free gas coupons. It is possible that Waymarsh is comparatively a poor city with less resources,hence, making it impossible to implement any kind of rewarding system.If any of the above examples hold value,then author’s conclusion will be considerably weakened.
Finally, even if author’ unwarranted assumptions are true, will everyone feel comfortable or be content with sharing a cab with others? It is possible that every individual has a different route to take, so sharing a cab would rather increase their commute time. Perhaps the pollution caused was not entirely due to longer commute time but rather due to various activities. The above examples could make author’s conclusion unpersuasive.
In conclusion, due to the lack of any significant evidence such as scientific research on pollution and quality of roads over time, the unwarranted assumption made by author aren’t persuasive and are weak.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 360 350
No. of Characters: 1783 1500
No. of Different Words: 185 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.356 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.953 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.737 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.926 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.325 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.49 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.065 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 122, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , where
...marsh? The policy has a rewarding system,where people are rewarded when they share a c...
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Line 4, column 402, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , hence
...ratively a poor city with less resources,hence, making it impossible to implement any ...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 473, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: If
... implement any kind of rewarding system.If any of the above examples hold value,th...
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Line 4, column 512, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , then
....If any of the above examples hold value,then author’s conclusion will be considerabl...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, second, so, then, in conclusion, kind of, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1848.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 353.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23512747875 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95685849205 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543909348442 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 573.3 705.55239521 81% => 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: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.3337476312 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.5 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0625 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.70786347227 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.10655054053 0.218282227539 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0381663074693 0.0743258471296 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0371686793153 0.0701772020484 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0569844937834 0.128457276422 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324216931246 0.0628817314937 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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