City A wanted to reduce the number of accidents in its highway. It reduced the speed limit from 55 to 45.but accidents did not decrease. 5 years ago city B introduced measures such as, widening of roads, better signs etc and it has reduced the number of accidents reported. Therefore city A must also follow the same
The argument presented lacks supportive information and, therefore, is logically unsound. The weak points of the statement lie in the deficiency of conditions intrinsic to the described highway. Such circumstances as local weather, road infrastructure and relevance of police control should be carefully examined before making a conclusion about the ways of reduction of accidents in the highway.
First of all, the argument does not distinguish between the climate in city B and the one in city A. This fault makes the statement weak because the policies which were successful in city B may not lead to the expected result in the city A. For instance, if the weather in the highway of city A is mostly rainy, the widening of roads may only impair the situation. Because of gliding, the cars will bump into each other more often. For this reason, it would be relevant to investigate the climate in city A and align with it the policy of road management.
The second weakness of the arguments is that it fails to mention the quality of the road in the highway of city A. If it is worse than in city B, the better signs will not solve the problem. Transport vehicles in the highway of city A may slow down to skip the car, while that car does not expect it and does not decrease the speed. When this case happens on the road with stones, the car accident will be unavoidable. To illustrate the analogous situation, the authorities of my local town saved money for renewal of town roads and instead purchased new road signs. As a result, these signs were useless because the car drivers could not drive on the broken road.
The last weak point of the claim is that the official reduction of speed limit does not definitely mean that the drivers will follow it. The argument does not mention whether there were police responsible for control of speed in the highway in city A. Consequently, the drivers could disobey the established rule and drive at the same speed. The fact that the number of accidents did not decrease does not mean that the new rule about speed limit was inefficient. It could be if there were a control over the speed limit of drivers in the highway. Consequently, to make the argument sound and justify the new rule, city A has to increase the number of police stations along the highway and reinforce a strict monitoring over the speed on highway road.
In the final analysis, the presented argument seems to be unconvincing because it fails to mention the weather, road infrastructure and intensity of police control of the roads in city A. To make the statement logically sound, the authorities of city A have to adapt road policy in highway to the local weather, verify the quality of roads and introduce more police stations along the highway.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- somehow duplicated to argument 1
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 17 15
No. of Words: 485 350
No. of Characters: 2242 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.693 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.623 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.547 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 141 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.529 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.22 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.471 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.355 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.581 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 343, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ished rule and drive at the same speed. The fact that the number of accidents did n...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, if, may, second, so, therefore, while, as to, for instance, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2297.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 485.0 441.139720559 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73608247423 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61638354503 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.40824742268 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 720.9 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.1267944671 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.409090909 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0454545455 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.81818181818 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190665093184 0.218282227539 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0664509042375 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0440891088792 0.0701772020484 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110983248985 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0427684338242 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.