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 of Maple County is in a dilemma with regard to the developmental steps which would be taken given the overdevelopment of the county. On one side the council believes that by actually restricting this supply of new housing there would be a significant surge in the housing prices while on the other hand, the lobbyists believe only a modest increase after seeing the effect of the same in Chestnut County. The council is fickle-minded concerning this decision and predict what may or may not happen given the passing and rejection of this measure respectively. The above logic is unconvincing given the following flaws present.
Firstly, just because two different outcomes of this measure was observed in other counties doesn’t really have to mean that the same effect is bound to happen in Maple County too. Given that the outcome was positive/negative doesn’t actually mean that the sole reason behind this is only that proposed policy. Drop in the housing prices can happen due to a lot many factors namely lack of basic facilities causing people to move out, inappropriate ambience for residents to live and many more. Moreover given that this effect was observed after ten years doesn’t give us much needed proof that the same outcome will be seen in Maple County too which may or may not have what it takes for a person to live.
Secondly, the council is concerned that by such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing there would be significant changes in the housing prices. At the same time, they are completely overlooking the fact that such an effect actually happen requires a lot many changes in that area. There is no proof given that Maple County is full of people who actually want to experience such developmental benefits. It is so very possible that the county is full of old people who don’t even care about these changes and are happy the way they are at present.
Thirdly, shall the measured policy come into effect, the council still predicting that there would be an increase in the housing prices is completely flawed. There are no proofs given that support the fact that only an increase in the prices will happen and no decrease at all even though the proponents believed there would be a decrease and opponents otherwise. There is not much data that should actually support that only one effect would be seen in Maple County.
In conclusion, the council is in a fix. Even after knowing the effect of this policy in its neighbouring counties was both positive and negative, they should not fixate themselves for directly jumping on to its execution. Given the overdevelopment in the area, the best thing is to even take other considerations, other flaws into account and tackle this issue so as to get a reasonable outcome for all.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 11 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 483 350
No. of Characters: 2266 1500
No. of Different Words: 208 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.688 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.692 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.536 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 152 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.453 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.514 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 496, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...ce for residents to live and many more. Moreover given that this effect was observed aft...
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Line 6, column 378, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...e and opponents otherwise. There is not much data that should actually support that ...
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Line 8, column 362, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...laws into account and tackle this issue so as to get a reasonable outcome for all. ...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s to get a reasonable outcome for all.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, still, third, thirdly, while, as to, in conclusion, with regard to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2329.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 478.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87238493724 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65493700474 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.433054393305 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 731.7 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.9821016205 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.388888889 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5555555556 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.22222222222 5.70786347227 162% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.225098678843 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.079498137072 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0635619611176 0.0701772020484 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130648175202 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0549614956037 0.0628817314937 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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