The following appeared in a letter sent by a committee of homeowners from the Deerhaven Acres to all homeowners in Deerhaven Acres.
“Seven years ago, homeowners in nearby Brookville community adopted a set of restrictions on how the community’s yards should be landscaped and what colors the exteriors of homes should be painted. Since then, average property values have tripled in Brookville. In order to raise property values in Deerhaven Acres, we should adopt our own set of restrictions on landscaping and house painting.”
The prompt highlights the surge in the average property values in Brookville by three times within seven years by adopting various restrictions on landscaping of lawns and house painting. The argument suggests similar rise in Deerhaven Acres with the use of some set of constraints on the same. However, this argument is unconvincing because of the several reasons as it assumes only one reason for the success but there may be some other reasons as the adoption of rules regarding landscaping community yards and painting the exterior of homes can only add scenic beauty as seen by the outsider and may have less contribution towards the increase of average property values.
First of all, the given premises is based on the following assumption that the restrictions were obeyed in Brookville seven years ago and Deerhaven Acres decide to follow the same in present which is not correct because of the change in ample of situations in spam of seven years, for instance, effect on economy, change in interests of masses as it may happen that people may not be interested in buying properties.
Secondly, the argument assumes that the one and the only reason for the inclination in the value of properties in Brookville is the change in scenic beauty. Though it could be the reason, but there may be other reasons like the location of Brookville as it may be near to the shopping centers, airport, railway station and bus stand which may be attract the majority of population to buy properties in this region. Furthermore, there may be many infrastructural developments along with this in this area like development of hospitals, schools, improvement in security conditions and likewise many others. The argument can be strengthened by stating the given reason as one of the reason for the growth of the property values and suggesting some other possible reasons.
Finally, the argument fails to describe the various restrictions which the Brookville had followed and the conditions which the Deerhaven Acres is going to suggest for the attracting various individuals towards properties. There may be possibility that the conditions followed by the latter may not be appropriate for the achievement as that followed by the former. The argument can be made relevant by clearly describing the various restrictions imposed.
Thus, the argument is not logically convincing. The evidence in support of the conclusion has failed to provide information on the above mentioned argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 403 350
No. of Characters: 2045 1500
No. of Different Words: 179 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.48 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.074 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.841 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 123 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.132 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.369 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.635 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.08 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, likewise, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2082.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 403.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16625310174 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89730685475 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.461538461538 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 649.8 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 104.260427231 57.8364921388 180% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.153846154 119.503703932 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.0 23.324526521 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.92307692308 5.70786347227 174% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.133989023543 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0523124534858 0.0743258471296 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575644869246 0.0701772020484 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0853208124845 0.128457276422 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0680555549946 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.4 14.3799401198 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.3550499002 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.3 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => 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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