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 concludes that by putting a measure that stops the development of houses in the county, houses price will increase substantially. While the conclusion may be true, as it stands now, the argument will have to answer these three questions in order to make the argument sound and hold water.
The decision of the county is based on the assumption that the development of the county farmland is significant so much so that a restriction has to be put in place. Before this can be asserted, the county has to answer if the development of Maple conty is quantifiable. What if the county is underdeveloped or the county's development is actually declining? Will development restriction put in place be effective? What if the residnets of the county do not want the restriction? Are the residents willing to accept the restrictions on development.
Another assumptions that the prediction of the council is based on is the comparison of Maple county to Chestnut County. Before this comparison can be made, the concil will have to justify the similarities between th two counties. Are the counties similar in terms of housing scheme and structure. Are the prices of the houses in both counties the same before the restrictions were effected in both counties? What if the prices of houses in Chestnut county is significantly higher than Maple's? Under what condition were the restriction measures placed in Chestnut county? Are the conditions the same for Maple county? These questions if not answered are able to render the conclusion of the council of Maple county invalid
Furthermore, the prices of houses is increase by the demand for houses. The council of Maple county assumes that the population of Maple conty is high enough to cause the demand for houses increase which in turn will cause the prices to increase. What if the population of Maple county is small and the houses are more than enough for the residents of county. It could be that there are houses that are not habited by the residents of the county. If these questions are unaswered, the prediction of the county council holds no water.
Examining all these questions involved in the council prediction, It can be seen that the council prediction is rife with holes and assumptions and are not strong enough to make a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 399 350
No. of Characters: 1933 1500
No. of Different Words: 149 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.469 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.845 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.751 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.217 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.476 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.369 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.552 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.129 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 723, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, furthermore, if, may, so, while, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1982.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 399.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96741854637 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82750978608 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.375939849624 0.468620217663 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 615.6 705.55239521 87% => 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: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.2657514853 57.8364921388 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.380952381 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.28571428571 5.70786347227 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.324969073976 0.218282227539 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135076240949 0.0743258471296 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0741091890315 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198231916152 0.128457276422 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0872753794093 0.0628817314937 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.3799401198 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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