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.
The author presents an argument that an improvement in road projects in prunty county will reduce the number of accidents based on the results observed by improvement of roads in Butler county five years ago. Eventhough improvement in roads is mandatory for highway safety but failing to discuss the assumptions which were considered in arriving at the argument makes it weak.
Firstly, quoting that prunty county also requires an improvement in roads like bounty fails to explain or quote the current road conditions of Prunty county. It is possible that prunty county has wide lanes and smooth surfaces already. Moreover, we dont know if the geographical or demographic conditions of both the county' s are similar. If the author had compared the conditions of road in prunty and also the similarity of geographical conditions of both county's it would have strengthened the argument.
Secondly, the author states the decrease in accidents in bounty is 25% in past year eventhough the roads have been expanded 5 years ago, it is possible that the roads have become very old now and surface might be rough So improvement in roads doesn' t necessarily explain the exact reason for the decrease in road accidents in highways and also the author fails to explain if there are any other measures taken by government in decreasing the road accidents For example strict process for giving license thereby ensuring well trained drivers.
Finally, even if we consider both county' s are similar, the 25% decrease in accidents does not give a definitive figure of how many accidents are reduced in butler county. It is possible that the number is very less so in percentage it shows a higher value. Incase if the number of accidents in prunty is pretty high the reduction in terms of percentage may seem very less and might not be an effective method for preventing accidents.
To conclude, the author fails to provide substantial evidence thereby failing to persuade the readers in agreeing to the given argument. If the above stated statistics are compared for both the county' s and similarities are shown then the argument would have been stronger.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 250, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...d smooth surfaces already. Moreover, we dont know if the geographical or demographic...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'for example']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.269841269841 0.25644967241 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.185185185185 0.15541462614 119% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0820105820106 0.0836205057962 98% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0661375661376 0.0520304965353 127% => OK
Pronouns: 0.021164021164 0.0272364105082 78% => OK
Prepositions: 0.140211640212 0.125424944231 112% => OK
Participles: 0.0661375661376 0.0416121511921 159% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.71622325934 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0185185185185 0.026700313972 69% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.108465608466 0.113004496875 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.015873015873 0.0255425247493 62% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00529100529101 0.0127820249294 41% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2147.0 2731.13054187 79% => OK
No of words: 357.0 446.07635468 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.01400560224 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.57801047555 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.389355742297 0.378187486979 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.27731092437 0.287650121315 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.212885154062 0.208842608468 102% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.126050420168 0.135150697306 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71622325934 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 207.018472906 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.481792717087 0.469332199767 103% => OK
Word variations: 50.1916057821 52.1807786196 96% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 20.039408867 60% => OK
Sentence length: 29.75 23.2022227129 128% => OK
Sentence length SD: 116.025859187 57.7814097925 201% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 178.916666667 141.986410481 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.75 23.2022227129 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.16666666667 0.724660767414 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 57.481092437 51.9672348444 111% => OK
Elegance: 1.74757281553 1.8405768891 95% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.341862868844 0.441005458295 78% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.162004058733 0.135418324435 120% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.101410217532 0.0829849096947 122% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.678646046151 0.58762219726 115% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.158417191313 0.147661913831 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.16732116794 0.193483328276 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531372718447 0.0970749176394 55% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.360394578552 0.42659136922 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0849163787987 0.0774707102158 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233988869496 0.312017818177 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412531833728 0.0698173142475 59% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 14.657635468 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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