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.
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.
It is stated in the prompt that, number of accident in Prunty County has not decreased in spite of lowering speed limit. So it is suggested that Prunty County should take same kind of road project that Butler County completed five years ago because after that Butler County road accidents have reduced by 25 percent than previous year. However, before implementing this project idea some question must be answered.
To begin with, what is the population of Prunth County as compare to Butler Count? And what is the rate on increasing population in Prunth County as compared to Butler County? Maybe population of Prunth County is more than Butler County. If this is true than it is quite blatant that number of vehicles running on the road of Prunth County is more than Butler County so it is blatant that accident in Prunth County will be more than Butler County. Maybe Prunth County is developing area so population in that County is burgeoning day by day as compare to Butler County. If, this is true than there are more number of vehicles in Prunth County compare to Butler County. If we consider all these assumptions true, than no matter how wide road is constructed accident rate will not decrease.
Secondly, what is the geographical and climatic condition of Prunth County compare to Butler County? Maybe Prunth County is in high altitude region where they frequently exp rain. If this is true than it is blatant that road will become slippery and it will increase the rate of an accident furthermore, if Prunth County is located in high altitude area than it is very difficult increase the size of the highway. If, this all assumption is considered to be true then conclusion drawn from the prompt to increase the size of a highway does not hold water.
Finally, how frequently people in that area use highway? Or do they have any alternative highway or road which makes connection more flexible? Maybe, Prunth County have only one highway which is taken by all local people to go to their working place which is increasing more crowd on that highway due to it chance of accidents are increasing on the other hand in Butler County there is alternative road made so traffic is divide in half on their highway and that road which result into fewer accidents in that County. If, this happens to be true then conclusion drawn from the original argument are weakened and it does not hold water.
In conclusion, the evidence provided in this prompt is dubious as well as erroneous. If all above question are answered and more evidence is provided than it will help to make argument more strong.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 452 350
No. of Characters: 2110 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.611 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.668 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.386 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 159 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.944 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.386 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.596 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.196 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 571, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...day by day as compare to Butler County. If, this is true than there are more numbe...
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Line 3, column 713, Rule ID: COMMA_THAN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'then'?
Suggestion: then
...we consider all these assumptions true, than no matter how wide road is constructed ...
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Line 5, column 415, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...icult increase the size of the highway. If, this all assumption is considered to b...
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Line 7, column 637, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...re weakened and it does not hold water. In conclusion, the evidence provided in ...
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Line 9, column 199, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...will help to make argument more strong.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, in conclusion, kind of, as well as, in spite of, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.6327345309 173% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2160.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 452.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77876106195 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43553826902 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.396017699115 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 672.3 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.0885281268 57.8364921388 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 5.70786347227 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249742420659 0.218282227539 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0928265815669 0.0743258471296 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589766926472 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153036513088 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.069160123248 0.0628817314937 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.1 8.32208582834 85% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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