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.
The author has stated to improve the highway for safety purposes to control the accidental in Prunty County eg: increasing lane width, resurfacing the highway, and improve the visibility at a dangerous intersection. The author has concluded this based on the same issues that happen in Bulter County, they thereby improve the highway and the accident percentage was dropped by twenty-five percent in the past year. However, before this recommendation can be evaluated properly, three-question must be answered.
First of all, are Prunty County and Bulter County are roughly comparable? In other words, can circumstances from one highway to another highway be used to generalizations and predictions about the other? It is possible that the situation of Prunty and Bulter County may be dissimilar. Suppose Prunty County highway passes through the hilly terrain area and there as difficult turning road whereas the Bulter County highway is mostly straight roads. Moreover, the rules of Bulter County are way more strict than Prunty highway, so therefore the accident percent has been reduced over past years. If either of the statement has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, the author mentioned that last year Prunty County make the rule that there is a speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. Are these rules are followed properly?. It is possible that the speed limit board has not been visible to drive so that they should drive within the speed limit. However, they should make a big signboard with a speed limit so that drivers can view it properly. Moreover, they should also make a strict rule that if someone crosses the speed limit they should have pay the fine. For this, they should appoint an in charge to look over the rule, and simultaneously they also catch the driver whoever breaks the rule. If the above is true, then the argument does not hold water.
Finally, the author suggested that to improve the highway to overcome the problem of accidents. By improving the highway the problem of accidents can be diminished or wear out? It is possible that by making the highway better, the driver will increase his speed because the road has become nice. If the driver drives a car or truck faster there is more possibility of a happening accident. If either of the statement has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to the reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the three questions above and offer more evidence. (perhaps is able the form of a systematic study), then it will possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation to improve the highway of Prunty County.
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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: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 472 350
No. of Characters: 2321 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.661 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.917 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.634 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 178 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.522 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.246 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.783 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.301 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.514 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.095 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 2, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rly, three-question must be answered. First of all, are Prunty County and Bult...
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Line 3, column 96, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[2]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'circumstance'
Suggestion: circumstance
...roughly comparable? In other words, can circumstances from one highway to another highway be ...
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Line 3, column 529, Rule ID: SO_THEREFORE[1]
Message: Use simply 'so' or 'therefore'.
Suggestion: so; therefore
...re way more strict than Prunty highway, so therefore the accident percent has been reduced o...
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Line 9, column 211, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Perhaps
...uestions above and offer more evidence. perhaps is able the form of a systematic study,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, whereas, in conclusion, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2392.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 472.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06779661017 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71131813884 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476694915254 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 741.6 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.4818400695 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.6666666667 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 5.70786347227 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.355726954037 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0943108011039 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0944817874338 0.0701772020484 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182032735849 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0734323178806 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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