The city council of Town X has proposed reducing the city’s electric expenses by switching all the lights in public buildings from incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The switch would be made gradually as the old incandescent bulbs burn out, and the city council reasons that since LED lights burn brighter and cost no more to purchase, the switch would help Town X save money on electrical costs in the future.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to help evaluate the efficacy of the city council’s proposal to save money on electrical costs. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the council’s prediction.
The author mentions that the city council wants to reduce electricity costs by gradually implementing LED’s rather than incandescent bulbs that were previously in use by gradually changing them when they wear out. The author cites two reasons for doing so but there are more factors that need to be considered while switching to LED bulbs. These unanswered factors may answer some crucial questions whether this decision would be beneficial in the long term in saving electricity costs.
Firstly, the author does mention that the LED’s burn bright than incandescent bulbs but fails to mention that if this more brightness comes at the cost of consuming more electricity. For example a 20watt bulb is more bright than a 10watt bulb but the 20 watt bulb also consumes more energy. LED’s may consume more electricity than incandescent bulbs when installed as they do burn bright. If this is true the city council’s argument falls short that installing LED’s will reduce costs in the future.
Secondly the author states that purchasing cost of the LED bulbs is lower but does not mention what is the installing cost of such LED bulbs. For example some supercars are easy to buy but their maintenance costs are very high. In a similar manner what if purchasing LED bulbs is not expensive but their maintenance and installing costs are very high compared to other bulbs. What if in the long run the maintenance costs exceed the costs to run them such that they become a bad investment?
In conclusion yes the LED bulbs are cheaper to buy and burn brighter than incandescent bulbs as the author mentioned but what questions needs to answered that are whether they will be beneficial in the long run because the city council has not mentioned some critical points while concluding that installing LED will save future costs. The city council should have been elaborate and should have mentioned more facts and figures while concluding this, such as the cost of maintenance, installation and the amount of electricity consumed by the LED bulbs should have been mentioned. If this data about the LED bulbs is provided by the city council that it would be more helpful in reaching a conclusion whether to install or not to install LED bulbs for saving costs in the long run.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 385 350
No. of Characters: 1859 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.43 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.829 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.536 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 113 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 85 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.789 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.929 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.418 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.615 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.145 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 195, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... consuming more electricity. For example a 20watt bulb is more bright than a 10wa...
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Line 3, column 391, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... when installed as they do burn bright. If this is true the city council’s argumen...
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Line 5, column 229, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "In a similar manner" with adverb for "similar"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... their maintenance costs are very high. In a similar manner what if purchasing LED bulbs is not exp...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1900.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 385.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93506493506 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58720595953 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.420779220779 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 558.9 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.149644823 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.714285714 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5 23.324526521 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.14285714286 5.70786347227 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261178248493 0.218282227539 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111373299266 0.0743258471296 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0696255353385 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180967681138 0.128457276422 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0711840507834 0.0628817314937 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 98.500998004 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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