The city council of Town X has proposed reducing the citys electric expenses by switching all lights in public buildings from invandescent bulb to light emitting diodes(LED). The switch would be made gradually as the old incandescent bulbs burb 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 electric costs in future.
The argument states that 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 in order to save money on electric costs in future. While the argument may seem logical and probable, more questions need to be answered before going ahead with the decision.
The argument states that the switch from old incandescent bulbs to new LED bulbs will be made gradually as the old bulbs burn out. However, the question to be asked here is that are the new LED bulbs being purchased together as a set or individually? If the led bulbs are purchased individually, then they may cost more money as compared to buying them together. And if the LED bulbs are purchased together, then what will be their storing cost? More research needs to be conducted regarding the same.
The argument further adds that led lights burn brighter and cost no more to purchase. However, what is the warranty on the led bulbs? What will be their maintenance cost? If they burn out in a few weeks time, then it may result in increase in the cost of electric expenses rather than saving. Also, what inconvenience will the project result in to local people? Are other ways being sort out to reduce this inconvenience caused? More data needs to be gathered regarding the same.
Lastly, will the cost of this project result in reduction in spending in other areas, such as healthcare, education? If yes, then how will it affect the local people? Because such a scenario may make local citizens angry, which can result in protest.
While the idea of replacing the incandescent bulbs with led bulbs may be a good one, the argument presented has a lot of loopholes which have to be filled. Thus, only after conducting thorough research regarding the above questions should the decision be taken.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
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: 19 15
No. of Words: 321 350
No. of Characters: 1512 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.233 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.71 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.522 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 95 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 70 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.895 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.169 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.321 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.321 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 243, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...n order to save money on electric costs in future. While the argument may seem logical an...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...estions should the decision be taken.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, lastly, may, regarding, so, then, thus, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1562.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 321.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86604361371 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62006178376 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.495327102804 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.0138202004 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.2105263158 119.503703932 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8947368421 23.324526521 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.84210526316 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.364223570227 0.218282227539 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103002769648 0.0743258471296 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144852997038 0.0701772020484 206% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200734466263 0.128457276422 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.154479384225 0.0628817314937 246% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 14.3799401198 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.3550499002 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.197005988 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.67 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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