"In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County recently lowered its speed limit from 55 miles per hour to 45 on all major county roads. But the 55 mph limit should be restored, because this safety effort has failed. Most drivers are exceeding the new speed limit and the accident rate throughout Prunty County has decreased only slightly. If we want to improve the safety of our roads, we should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths and resurfacing rough roads. 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 argument states that Prunty highway lowered speed limit with the goal of improving highway safety last year and the effort has failed. Thus, author provides another solution that the county should implement similar strategy implemented by another county five years ago and expects that the highway safety will be improved. The author also provides few data to substantiate the claim. However, a careful scrutiny reveals the support and basis provided are not credible. Hence the argument can be considered incomplete and unsubstantiated.
Firstly, the argument assumes that efforts by the county has failed on the basis that accident has not decreased. However, we cannot be sure that the accidents are due to speed and the purpose of speed limit could be something else too. Regarding accidents, there may be other unconsidered facts and scenarios. For instance, many drivers may not be licensed or experienced. we do not know if such security measured are properly analyzed and maintained by county. It is also equally possible that many drivers drive while drinking and causing the accidents which may also explain why many drivers are exceeding speed limit.
Furthermore, no information is provided about the demographics of the counties compared and without proper analysis, it cannot be asserted that a solution that worked fr Butler country is certain to work in Prunty County. It also not clear about the current condition of roads in Prunty County and it is equally essential to determine the demand of expansion of road and its necessity before making such judgment.
Furthermore, the data provided in the argument are not clearly detailed and are equivocal. The author mentions 'many' drivers are exceeding limit, but we do not have idea about its absolute value, it could be lesser than previous year or could be more but its uncertain. Likewise, it is mentioned that the Butler county completed similar road improvement project five years ago, but the comparison has only made for past year. we do not know if the project had improvements in highway safety immediately after the project was completed and comparing only last year's data is not sufficient.
In conclusion, although it is likely that a road improvement project may bring some change in the Prunty County, it cannot be claimed with certainty. A proper analysis of the current condition of roads is required to access the need of further improvement. Also, the basis provided from Butler county is not reliable since we cannot be clear about the impact it had on the road safety merely from evidences provided.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not exactly
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 423 350
No. of Characters: 2126 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.535 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.026 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.58 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.5 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.889 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.307 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.541 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.112 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 474, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...rt and basis provided are not credible. Hence the argument can be considered incomple...
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Line 2, column 345, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rios. For instance, many drivers may not be licensed or experienced. we do not kn...
^^
Line 2, column 375, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: We
...rs may not be licensed or experienced. we do not know if such security measured a...
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Line 4, column 425, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: We
...comparison has only made for past year. we do not know if the project had improvem...
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Line 4, column 558, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...t was completed and comparing only last years data is not sufficient. In conclusion...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, likewise, may, regarding, so, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2169.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 423.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12765957447 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67684124385 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.482269503546 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 691.2 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.9285360948 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.45 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.15 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.70786347227 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.230024031098 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0672935521508 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0618273816933 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131435751936 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0393297855922 0.0628817314937 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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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