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.
At the first glance authors argument about Prunty Country considering the measures followed by Butler County to attain highway safety appears to be covincing, but further reflection reveals that it is rife with holes and assumptions, and thus not strong enough to consider it as a suggestion.
To begin with, the argument states that Prunty County lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour last year on all county highways, and still the number of accidents has not decreased, and to support this claim the author provides reports from the highway patrol which state that many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. To strengthen his argument here the author needs to provide more evidence on where he got these statistics from , do the highway patrol reports account for the entire duration of the events , and if the increase in road accidents were because of people not following the speed limit or were there any other factors contributing for it. For instance, lower visibility on the highway during the night time , or that the road conditions have deteriorated over the years are proving to be a reason for these accidents.
Secondly, the author suggests that to over come problems faced by Prunty County it should consider following the project that was implemented by the Butler County five years ago. The argument is weakened by the assumption that both the Counties are the same in their geographic layout and that same improvements such as increasing lane widths , resurfacing rough surfaces and improving visibility at dangerous intersections can be made. To better evaluate the argument we would need more information about coast required for making all these improvements as it is not mentioned anywhere in the entirety of this article.
In order to fully evaluate this article, we need more evidence regarding the implementation of the said highway project in the Butler County. The fact that their roads still have a speed limit of 55mph and the percentage of accidents being reduced to 25% is not enough to strengthen this argument. Even if that were the case that 25% accidents have reduced , the fact alone isn’t sufficient to support the claim that the same project should be implemented in Prunty County. There might be other reasons for this , for instance that there might be other safety regulations enforced by the County council that have helped reduce the rate of accidents. Moreover, from where did he acquire the statistics about Butler County , how reliable is the source of this information. There might be a political agenda in this , where the success of implementation of the project is being boosted about.
To sum up , this argument is weak because it depends on assumptions made by the author regarding the cause of accidents in Prunty County, the geographical setting of both counties being the same, funds easily available with Prunty County to undertake such a huge highway development project and the success of the project implementation at Butler County. And a more detailed study and research about these factors id required to go ahead with the suggestions made.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 516 350
No. of Characters: 2554 1500
No. of Different Words: 233 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.766 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.95 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.622 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 187 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 34.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.465 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.353 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.148 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, then, thus, for instance, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 55.5748502994 131% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2604.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 515.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05631067961 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.763781212 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.688223513 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46213592233 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 807.3 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
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Sentence length: 34.0 22.8473053892 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.5122621996 57.8364921388 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 173.6 119.503703932 145% => OK
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Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 5.70786347227 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.31405930834 0.218282227539 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106645855836 0.0743258471296 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111478308023 0.0701772020484 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176543459286 0.128457276422 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107690841175 0.0628817314937 171% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.6 14.3799401198 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.97 48.3550499002 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 12.197005988 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.66 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 98.500998004 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 26.0 12.3882235529 210% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.1389221557 140% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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