The following appeared in a memo from a budget planner for the city of Grandview.
"Our citizens are well aware of the fact that while the Grandview Symphony Orchestra was struggling to succeed, our city government promised annual funding to help support its programs. Last year, however, private contributions to the symphony increased by 200 percent, and attendance at the symphony's concerts-in-the-park series doubled. The symphony has also announced an increase in ticket prices for next year. Such developments indicate that the symphony can now succeed without funding from city government and we can eliminate that expense from next year's budget. Therefore, we recommend that the city of Grandview eliminate its funding for the Grandview Symphony from next year's budget. By doing so, we can prevent a city budget deficit without threatening the success of the symphony."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
This memo from the budget planner of Grandview city seeks to cut budget cost to prevent future budget deficit. While the recommendation is plausible, is it based on the assumption that Grandview symphony is self-sufficient based on their success last year Therefore there seems to be a prediction of next year’s success based on last year’s success. However certain questions have to be effectively answered to evaluate the recommendation. This response addresses a few of the required questions.
Firstly, how is the Grandview orchestra doing this year? That is In terms of their success. What is the attendance rate of the programs and how well acclaimed is the symphony? These questions are important to examine the current level of the orchestra. The argument is building solely on past success without considering the current situation of the orchestra. If the orchestra is performing better than, or at least as good as, last year, this recommendation may be considered plausible. However, it is important to also consider the performance trend in the last 5 years to accurate deduce that current success is constant and it is not transient.
Secondly, what portion of last year’s private contributors are interested in investing next and how many invested this year? This is important to assure that the current level of private funding will not decline. If this question cannot be answered positively, the assumption that the orchestra would be self-sufficient next year is faulty. This would eventually affect the success of the symphony.
Thirdly, what are the measures put in place to ensure sustained or increased level of attendance? This is to effectively ascertain that the numbers or attendees would not drop in subsequent years since half of the success determinant of the success of the symphony is the cost of tickets. A decline in attendance would imply that less people would but tickets; this would affect the funding of the symphony and by extension their success.
In conclusion, the recommendation by the budget planner has to be evaluated to endure that the supposed success and self-sufficiency of the orchestra is not transient; also that funding and financial support would be constantly available till next year. Ability to effectively answer these questions implies that that claim is accurate and the symphony would not be requiring government funding next year.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 384 350
No. of Characters: 1975 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.427 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.143 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.932 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.179 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.329 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.519 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.069 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 331, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, well, while, as to, at least, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2031.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 384.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2890625 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01406277 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447916666667 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 608.4 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.7462336434 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.55 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85 5.70786347227 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.20758483034 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.114974769828 0.218282227539 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0409219698476 0.0743258471296 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0563879530742 0.0701772020484 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0745141301342 0.128457276422 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0471510423775 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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