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. While it may be true that if the Council of Maple County restrict the development of existing farmland, it will not increase the housing prices that much; however, the arguer does not make a cogent case. It is easy to understand that the similar results of modestly increase in housing may come out like Chestnut County or the similar results of significant increase of housing price may come out like Pine County. However, the arguer needs verifiable evidences to prove this recommendation for Maple County.
First of all, the arguer mentions that restriction of supplies of new housing is going to prevent overdevelopment of farmland in the county. But the author does not provide ant statistic numbers for Maple county. There is no information about the numbers of existing houses and the total number of population of residents in Maple County every year. It is possible that there are already many houses in Maple County, so there is no extra lands to build new houses. In addition, there should be reports about age, gender, and number of residents in Maple County every year because it can indicate if the population is rising or declining.
Additionally, the arguer compares the housing prices in two different counties with Maple County that does not make sense. The author states that restriction of new housing supplies did not increase the housing price in the Chestnut County, but the same plan caused the significant increase in housing prices in the Pine County. Definitely there are many differences between Chestnut and Pine counties that is important to pay attention. For example, the farmland in Pine County may be much smaller than the farmland in Chesnut County. As a result, the price of housing supplies will increase much higher than Pine County.
Last but not least, the author compares two counties in two different times which is not logical.
The author can prove the suggestion when he/she gathers information about total population and number of housing in Maple county and similarities and differences between Pine and Chestnut counties. After answering theses questions, the Council of Maple County can make such a conclusion.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 403 350
No. of Characters: 1988 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.48 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.933 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.576 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 152 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.389 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.008 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.611 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.362 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.119 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, so, while, for example, in addition, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2030.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 402.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04975124378 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64276059449 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.422885572139 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 631.8 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.145903875 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.777777778 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3333333333 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11111111111 5.70786347227 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
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: 0.236304336552 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.091061238002 0.0743258471296 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0727357197854 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145906757751 0.128457276422 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425048178765 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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