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.
While it may be true that lowering speed limit on Prunty highways will not decrease car accidents; however, the author's argument does not make a cogent case. It is easy to understand that increasing lane widths and improving road condition will reduce accident numbers, but the arguer needs verifiable evidences to prove this recommendation.
First of all, the author mentions that lowered speed limit on all Prunty County to decrease the number of accidents has failed. However, the arguer does not mention about other factors that can affect the number of accidents on highways. There is possibility that police monitoring for speed limit has not been done very well in Pruntly County. In addition, the author does not talk about roads condition or weather condition in Prunty County which is important factor to pay attention to. To strength his/her suggestion the author needs to investigate about all possible reasons that can cause car accidents.
Additionally, the arguer assumes that same road improvement project that has been done in Bulter County is going to give the same result for decreasing the number of accidents on Prunty highways. This comparison is not logical because definitely there are many differences between two Prunty and Butler counties highways. For example, road condition, weather condition, traffic jam, number of lanes, and police force. Thus, the author needs to consider highway differences on two Counties.
Last but not least, the arguer indicates that Percentage of reported accidents on Butler County highways were decreased by 25 percent, but the author does not give any statistic information about traffic jam on Butler County. It is not logical to just look at percentage without considering other factors. It is possible that Butler highways are not crowded like five years ago which can be reason for declined accident numbers for last year.
The arguer can make this suggestion persuasive when he/she gathers information about similarities and differences between Prunty and Butler highways and other factors that can affect accident numbers. After answering these questions, the author can make such a conclusion.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 343 350
No. of Characters: 1784 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.304 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.201 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.577 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.438 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.254 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.365 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.365 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.087 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 113, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, may, so, thus, well, while, for example, in addition, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1825.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 341.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35190615836 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64808572272 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.49853372434 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8528556908 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.0625 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3125 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0625 5.70786347227 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26707558578 0.218282227539 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0914489605947 0.0743258471296 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0756817490591 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154552409934 0.128457276422 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0381922303393 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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