“ On Balmer Island, where moped serve as a popular mode of transportation, the population increases to 100000 during summer months. To reduce the no. of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island’s moped rental companies from 50per day to 25 per day during the summer. By limiting the number of moped rentals, the town council will attain 50% annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighbouring island of Seaville’s town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals.”
In the given argument, the author compares Balmer island with Seaville island, and concludes that decreasing the number of moped rental will reduce 50% moped accidents on Balmer island. Insofar, the recommendation he puts seem plausible. However, the premises he lays out are rather hasty, cursory and cogently does not present a bolstering case for the conclusion. The premises, if not substantiated, will dramatically undermine the pervasiveness of conclusion. Therefore, before jumping into conclusion, three questions must be answered.
First and foremost, the author implies that condition of Balmer island and Seaville island are comparable, but fails to mention on what aspect are they similar. For instance, most popular means of transportation in Seaville might not be moped, or perhaps there might not be enough influx of people during summer as there is in case of Balmer island. Furthermore, the conditions of routes for transportation of two islands are not mentioned which can also come into account for accidents. Increased number of accident cases can be result of dangerous road, lack of stringent safety rules, or perhaps no rules on speed limit. If any of these scenarios has merit, then the authors claim is unwarranted. So, these small details shall also be meticulously studied and presented.
Additionally, the author assumes, without evidence, that accidents are solo cause of both objects: pedestrian and moped. However, this might not be the case. For example, accidents between two cars can actually be due to reason of deteriorated road, not just due to over vehicle density. Instead of recommending reduction of the number of moped, focus cab be shifted on betterment of the existing condition.
Finally, the town council, who are exact with the number of reduction of moped from 50 to 25 do not present any such case for these exact reduction. May be, moped numbers need to be reduced to just 40 or may be to even 10. There is no clarification to this in the argument. Also, the argument does not mention about the period of accidents. The argument contention is that there will be 50% reduction in accident rate annually, but decreasing of moped is only implemented for the summer. So, question remains, does reduction of these moped for just summer account for decreasing annual reduction by 50%. However, if this does not hold true, then question can be raised which can dramatically weaken the pervasiveness of given argument.
In conclusion, restriction of moped from 50 to 25 might prove to lessen accidents number. However, as it stands now, the argument is predicated on three unstated assumptions that render its conclusion leaving the argument specious, and can be challenged. So, the author needs to be more exhaustive in his study and offer supplementary premises to corroborate the given argument.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 459 350
No. of Characters: 2310 1500
No. of Different Words: 219 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.629 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.033 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.811 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 128 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.36 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.991 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.76 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.269 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.269 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.075 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 16.3942115768 177% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2388.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 459.0 441.139720559 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20261437908 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91939322993 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505446623094 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 734.4 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.366769272 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.52 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.36 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16 5.70786347227 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234139261004 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0619380062447 0.0743258471296 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0864403578623 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130607671129 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667941524521 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 98.500998004 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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