The city council of Town X has proposed reducing the city's electric expenses by switching all the lights in public building 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.
Despite the proposal of the council seems reasonable, some questions have to be adressed to assure that the financial viability of the project is correct and the long term worth of the investment is positive. There are two main clauses which supports the argument of the council, but none of them are based in an analysis of costs or, even statistical data to bolster the argument.
The first clause that is used to conclude the convenience of the switching of the bulls relies in the fact the cost of purchase is the same for both products. However, this argument is not considering that the costs of maintenance can largely increase if the failure rate of the new bulbs is greater. So whether the frequency of changing the bulbs increases, it might not compensate the investment of purchase.
While the argument presents an interest hypothesis linking the brightness of the bulb with its energetic efficiency, there is no data that support this conclusion. Instead, some may argue that if the consumption of energy is higher per lumio, these bulbs would thrive in an increase of variable costs. To strong this argument, the council had better present data that confirms the consumption of energy of the new bulbs is less than the incandescent bulbs.
In sum, some additional information has to be presented to reinforce the financial viability of the proposal made by the council. First, some statistical data may be delivered to confirm the failure rate of LED bulbs wont increase maintenance costs. On the other hand, some information regarding the energetic efficiency of the bulbs would strong the hypothesis that these bulbs would save electrical expense in the future.
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- The city council of Town X has proposed reducing the city's electric expenses by switching all the lights in public building from incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The switch would be made gradually as the old incandescent bulbs burn out 50
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 279 350
No. of Characters: 1372 1500
No. of Different Words: 143 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.087 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.918 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.69 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 92 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 81 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.068 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.413 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.642 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, regarding, so, while, as to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1417.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 279.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07885304659 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7578496636 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52688172043 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 705.55239521 62% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.8728256856 57.8364921388 46% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 128.818181818 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3636363636 23.324526521 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.90909090909 5.70786347227 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.180187898354 0.218282227539 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0697856183573 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386745496162 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105374552333 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0514965398916 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => 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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