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.
The author of this argument suggests to abandon the Prunty County policy in decreasing the speed limit, and rather attempt to improve the quality of its roads to decrease the number of accidents it highways. However, he/she has based his/her argument on questionable evidences and does not provide a persuasive case for the proposed project.
First and fore most, the evidence needed to evaluate the success of the current policy, is the rate of accidents in Prunty county in comparison with a standard rate or at least the Butler country. Although some drivers is said to exceed the speed limit and the number of accidents has remained fixed, current number of accidents is not clear and one may not make sense how critical is the level of accidents in Prunty county and whether taking further actions in vital.
Furthermore, even the number of accidents is above the standard level, the author assumes that highways of Prunty County have poor quality and that is the main reason of accidents, thus they should follow the same policy as Bulter County. This is just an assumption and it is not supported by sufficient evidence. One can identify different reasons of accidents in Pruty country, vehicle conditions, bad weather condition, in sufficient alcohol test, to name but a few. Therefore, to strengthen his/her argument the author would better provide a full details of the reasons of accidents in Pruty county and highlight those that could have been avoided by better road conditions.
Eventually, the author associates the 25 percent decrease in accident of Bulter County with the road improvement projects carried out last year. The author also compares two statistics with 4 years gap. This hypothesis is flawed since during this 5 years, vehicles’ safety improves each year that might be an important contributor to that level of decrease. In addition, the author does not provide any information about other measures that were taken in Bulter County that might have resulted in decreasing number of accidents. Public awareness programs, alcohol test, better weather condition might have also be involved in such progress.
Based on the aforementioned flaws of this argument and numerous doubtful evidences, the author did not offer a persuasive case for initiating the road improvement project. To strengthen his/her argument, the author should frist provide comparison of the number of accidents with standard level or at least that of Bulter Country, and second, he/she should include detailed statistics regarding the contribution of all possible reasons in current accidents of Prunty county to identify the most effective action to take in order to decrease the number of accidents.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 617, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...etter weather condition might have also be involved in such progress. Based on ...
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Line 9, column 566, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...er to decrease the number of accidents.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'at least', 'in addition']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.296842105263 0.25644967241 116% => OK
Verbs: 0.147368421053 0.15541462614 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0778947368421 0.0836205057962 93% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0421052631579 0.0520304965353 81% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0126315789474 0.0272364105082 46% => OK
Prepositions: 0.130526315789 0.125424944231 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0357894736842 0.0416121511921 86% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.69974137916 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0252631578947 0.026700313972 95% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.111578947368 0.113004496875 99% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0210526315789 0.0255425247493 82% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0105263157895 0.0127820249294 82% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2718.0 2731.13054187 100% => OK
No of words: 435.0 446.07635468 98% => OK
Chars per words: 6.24827586207 6.12365571057 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.44367816092 0.378187486979 117% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.308045977011 0.287650121315 107% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.222988505747 0.208842608468 107% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.137931034483 0.135150697306 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69974137916 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 207.018472906 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489655172414 0.469332199767 104% => OK
Word variations: 54.6719643685 52.1807786196 105% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.039408867 75% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.2022227129 125% => OK
Sentence length SD: 80.2328832559 57.7814097925 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 181.2 141.986410481 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0 23.2022227129 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.724660767414 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 59.8045977011 51.9672348444 115% => OK
Elegance: 2.29166666667 1.8405768891 125% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.415428305366 0.441005458295 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.132592284476 0.135418324435 98% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0851152152202 0.0829849096947 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.588361157076 0.58762219726 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.196602309736 0.147661913831 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.177015528289 0.193483328276 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0959077423315 0.0970749176394 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.469124987702 0.42659136922 110% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0628488255451 0.0774707102158 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.305318190736 0.312017818177 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0675286205966 0.0698173142475 97% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.87684729064 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 5.36822660099 186% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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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