The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The author of the passage proposes an interesting argument regarding whether to enact restrictions on Maple county housing or not. However, this argument definitely requires more accurate and eligible reasons and thoughts. Its reasons have some deficiencies, which will be elaborated upon hereunder.
First of all, the argument assumes a similarity among Maple county and Pine county, while there is no further evidence to correctly compare these counties. For example, if we had information about the counties’ demography or industrial situations, we could determine the rate of analogy among these regions. If one city is more and densely populated or contains some significant companies, it is more likely to experience a rise in the price of housing in the area due to put more restrictions on the county developments.
Furthermore, the writer does not consider the change of time in the comparison among the three counties. Many things may have enormously changed in the last fifteen years. Maybe fifteen years ago, when the housing prices in Pine county rose, it was a national phenomenon that was not limited to the county itself. Therefore, the restrictions did not have such a great impact on the prices. Likewise, it is even possible that when the housing prices did not significantly rise in Chestnut county ten years ago, it was because of the recession that was widespread almost all over the world. As a result, the housing restrictions did not play a substantial role.
In conclusion, regarding all the aspects of this matter, we can see that we need more detailed information in order to make a decision regarding preventing Maple county from more development. It is crystal clear that the argument does not justify any action.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 284 350
No. of Characters: 1426 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.105 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.021 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.791 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 105 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 83 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.908 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.786 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.331 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.086 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, likewise, may, regarding, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1467.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 284.0 441.139720559 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16549295775 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89951693779 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.566901408451 0.468620217663 121% => OK
syllable_count: 471.6 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6017362774 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.785714286 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2857142857 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.57142857143 5.70786347227 168% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.18720517919 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0591214248026 0.0743258471296 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0550708056999 0.0701772020484 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108872523089 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0223220460047 0.0628817314937 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => 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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