In the letter to the editor of the Balmar Island Gazette it is recommended that town council of Balmar Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by island's moped rental company in order to reduce the number of accidents. To advocate this recommendation, population surge during summer and effectiveness of similar policy in neighboring island have been cited as evidences .However, before this recommendation can be properly evaluated following questions must be answered.
First of all , is there increase in number of accidents in summer specially? Author of the letter readily assumed that as there is surge in population there will be increase in number of accidents as well. While it might not be the case. We even dont know what percent of this increased population actually uses moped. It might be the case that there might be increase in number of tourist during summer resulting in higher number of population. These tourists may not rent the mopeds at all instead use cars or taxis. Hence, there might not be any significant rise in number of accidents at all. If this is true then the recommendation appears too unwarranted.
Second, how much is actual rise in population during summer? Author has pointed out that in summer population reaches upto 100,000. But neither population before or after the summer season is provided. It might be the case that the island is populated in all the seasons itself. Hence, implying such policy in summer may not be very effective. Moreover, how the figures of rental capacity are decided? is unknown. Unless any proper statastical analysis backing the reduction in limit of rental from 50 to 25 is presented, it not clear that how this will help reduce number of accidents. It might be the case that there are multiple rental shops out there and many more may open up in order to cater the increased demand of bike due to limit imposed. If either of this scenario is true then the argument does not hold water.
Third, are Seaville and Balmar island comparable? In other words, can circumstances from one island be used to make generalization and prediction about other? Both island may differ significantly in economic or cultural level. Citizens of Balmar may be less prone to following laws as compared to that of Seaville's. It is also possible that the population of Seaville's may not be as much as of Seaville's .Hence, it is not wise to expect the same percent annual reduction as Seaville's after imposing rental limit. If this case is true then the recommendation is proved to be significantly flawed.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is considerably flawed due to its resilience on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author of the argument is able to answer above questions and is able to provide more solid evidences along with proper authentic data, then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of proposed recommendation of imposing limit on number of rentals of moped.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 500 350
No. of Characters: 2423 1500
No. of Different Words: 219 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.729 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.846 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.732 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 181 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.231 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.036 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.808 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.278 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.462 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.061 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, then, third, well, while, in conclusion, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.6327345309 183% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 55.5748502994 146% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2477.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 500.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.954 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79796608783 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 805.5 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 64.6792715116 57.8364921388 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.7407407407 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5185185185 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232295610002 0.218282227539 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644133411433 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0703799469215 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139323774187 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0896038268598 0.0628817314937 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 98.500998004 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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