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 council claims that if the proposed measure passed, it will result in significant increase in housing prices in Maple County. To support the conclusion, the council cites various evidences such as the condition of Pine county. Although these evidences appear to bolster the author's argument, a meticulous analysis will show otherwise. So the author needs to cite the following specific evidences to make the argument more sound.
First, the Council assumes that if the housing price in Pine County increased by more that double in last 15 years, similar will happen to the Maple County. Perhaps, the condition in Pine County and Maple County are fundamentally different. Possibly the situation in Maple Country is more like Chestnut County, then it is more likely that even if the proposed measure passed, the housing price in Maple County will not increase considerably. Hence, without being aware of the structure of the Maple County, it would be unscrupulous to make Council's conclusion.
Secondly, the council assumes that the population of the Maple County is high so that if the proposed measure passed, it will lead to increase in housing price. Possibly, the population of the Maple County is decreasing, if this was the case, then even when the measures are passed, it will lead no significant increment in housing price.
In conclusion, it is possible that if the proposed measure passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple Country. However, as it stands now, the argument relies on two unfounded assumptions that render the argument unpersuasive at best and specious at worst. Thus, the author needs to provide additional evidences on above two fronts.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 276 350
No. of Characters: 1387 1500
No. of Different Words: 123 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.076 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.025 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.609 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 111 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 80 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.231 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.693 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.846 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.421 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.623 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.149 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 218, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rious evidences such as the condition of Pine county. Although these evidences ap...
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Line 1, column 280, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...h these evidences appear to bolster the authors argument, a meticulous analysis will sh...
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Line 3, column 35, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
.... First, the Council assumes that if the housing price in Pine County increas...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, thus, in conclusion, such as
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: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 11.1786427146 18% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1435.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 276.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19927536232 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69828792366 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 204.123752495 61% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.449275362319 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 705.55239521 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.3204019476 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.384615385 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2307692308 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.38461538462 5.70786347227 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => 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: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221828178574 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.097795195366 0.0743258471296 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0788101709625 0.0701772020484 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144548620666 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0803901185584 0.0628817314937 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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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