The following appeared in a recommendation from the planning department of the city of Transopolis.
"Ten years ago, as part of a comprehensive urban renewal program, the city of Transopolis adapted for industrial use a large area of severely substandard housing near the freeway. Subsequently, several factories were constructed there, crime rates in the area declined, and property tax revenues for the entire city increased. To further revitalize the city, we should now take similar action in a declining residential area on the opposite side of the city. Since some houses and apartments in existing nearby neighborhoods are currently unoccupied, alternate housing for those displaced by this action will be readily available."
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.
In the recommendation from the planning department of the city of Transpolis, it is mentioned that the revitalization of the city can be done by adopting the method which was successful in past- 10 years ago. The author made the assertion based on the evidence of the past on one side of the city. The argument superficially might seem plausible, however, in deep pondering the argument is rife with groundless assumption and the evidence provided are inadequate to check the viability of the claim.
Firstly, the author believes that the condition of the city in the past and as of now are similar. In other words, the locations are exactly comparable in all aspects which might not be the case. For instance, the industries available might be sufficient enough to fulfill the demand of the population of the city. Also, the labour needed for the industries might not be adequate to operate in the present days as the available might have been already used up. If any of the situations hold true, then the establishment of the industries will have repercussions only and eventually hamper the overall the economy of the city.
Similarly, even if both part of the cities are likely to have same structure in terms of geography and population, it is uncertain that the conditions of the past can be replicated in the mentioned manner. For instance, we cannot be sure that the situation can be repeated as the technological advancement and modernization plays great role in the industrilization. The industries that were suitable in the past can be of no use today. In other words, consider the fashion and trend of the youths in the past and present, are they have same style? Of course not. So, the industries that were producing the clothes and fashionable garment pieces now can be invaluable. If any of the above have merit, then the argument as a whole doesn't hold water.
Furthermore, what are the reasons for abandoning the houses in the city? Is the are prone to disaster? For instance, if the area is vulnerable to the natural disaster like flooding and get flooded in the rainy season, then it would be the absurd idea to establish the industries and try to replicate the success in the past. So, further evidience are required regarding the area prior to making contention.
In sum, the argument relies on numerous unwarranted assumptions and the evidence provided are insufficient; therefore, the further information in the form of systematic research needs to be provided in order to analyze the workability of the author claim.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 432 350
No. of Characters: 2063 1500
No. of Different Words: 208 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.559 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.775 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.863 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.278 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.324 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.324 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
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Line 4, column 76, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...r abandoning the houses in the city? Is the are prone to disaster? For instance, if the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, regarding, similarly, so, then, therefore, for instance, of course, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2116.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 431.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90951276102 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92736082145 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484918793503 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 684.9 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.5765243723 57.8364921388 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.8 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.55 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.70786347227 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.136826813214 0.218282227539 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0414848291841 0.0743258471296 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0547925883139 0.0701772020484 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0760856649919 0.128457276422 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0458393294161 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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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