The following appeared as part of an article in a Dillton newspaper.
"In an effort to bring new jobs to Dillton and stimulate the city's flagging economy, Dillton's city council voted last year to lower the city's corporate tax rate by 15 percent; at the same time, the city began offering generous relocation grants to any company that would move to Dillton. Since these changes went into effect, two new factories have opened in Dillton. Although the two factories employ more than 1,000 people, the unemployment rate in Dillton remains unchanged. The only clear explanation for this is that the new factories are staffed with out-of-town workers rather than Dillton residents."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The author has made a lot of assumptions in an effort to finding ways to bring new jobs and stimulate flagging economy of the city and the conclusion is based on these ambiguous assumptions. Firstly, the author made an assumption that reduction in city's corporate tax rate would more likely achieve the end result but he fails to address on how will the reduction support the assertion made earlier. He eventually did not explain on what proportion the assumption would aide to achieve the goal.
Secondly, the author cites that Dillton had allowed enormous relocation grants to any company that wishes to setup in Dillton. But inspite of this opportunity, only two factories have moved to Dillton which brings up many questions. Are there fewer companies due to unavailibilty of resources to construct the factory? and Is there huge discrepancy between the number of emplyees needed and the number of literates avaialble? By answering these questions and the anomalies associated with the argument, the author can narrow down more plausible conclusion.
Additionally, the later statement of the argument contradicts with the previous idea that inspite of the two factories opened in Dillton, the unemployment rate remained unchanged. The parochial view of the author made him to presume that the umenployment rates were unchanged because the factories started recruitment out-of-town. However, there are other viable reasons that might have encouraged or forced the factory employers to recruit employees from other residents.
The plausible reason behind the unchanged unemployment rate might attribute to the unknown proportion of the number of literates to the total number of population. Since the author stated that the unemployment rate is unchanged, it leads to an assumption that number of literates to the total population steadily increased that even if the factories employed Dillton residents, the unemployment rate remained unchanged.
Furthermore, the factories might required skilled employee in particular discipline in which Dillton might have lacked. For example, if the factoies need more computer professionals and the majority of the literates at Dillton are electrical engineers, this would have caused the employers of the factory to recruit people out-of-town.
Thus, there are many rivals to the conclusion of the author which can also play significant role in the unchanged employment rate, demanding the author to puruse on the other extreme factors that could considere
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'to set up'?
Suggestion: to set up
...ation grants to any company that wishes to setup in Dillton. But inspite of this opportu...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
... of resources to construct the factory? and Is there huge discrepancy between the n...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, in particular
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.6327345309 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2125.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 387.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.49095607235 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91992865455 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527131782946 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 663.3 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.6015367555 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.8125 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1875 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152379014424 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0494929974668 0.0743258471296 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531125278623 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0732938506068 0.128457276422 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0434266884518 0.0628817314937 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.5979740519 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.52 8.32208582834 114% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 98.500998004 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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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