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's claim that restrictions on the development on the existing farmlands will increase housing prices in the county lacks proper evidences to agree with. No proper relation is evinced between the statement made and the bolstering points for the comparisons between itself and Maple County and Pine County. Hence, without proper proofs the conclusion seems unjustified.
Firstly, author is stating that the proposed measure that would prevent the development of the farmland due to its over development. The author is not stating that what are the measures the over development is accounted and on what gist it is debating the measure to prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. Further the development of farmland has no relations on the housing price of the county. Without proper relation drawn, the conclusion what author is claiming cannot be accepted. This is the biggest loop hole which definitely has to be addressed.
Secondly, the author is making a comparison that the Chestnut Country which had adopted the same kind of restriction has not made augmentation in housing prices. It may be likely that the population scale of Chestnut County is much smaller than Maple County and many people from Chestnut County migrate to other places because of job and other things, and thus making the population statistics less in that county. This might be making the housing price remain modest over past ten years. Here too, without proper measures on the population and the size of the counties, the conclusions cannot be accepted.
Again the author is making one more comparison with the Pine County regarding the housing prices. Here also the same points which was mentioned in the previous paragraph can be counted to argue. The population measure is not stated by the author to compare. It can be likely that the Pine County has more immigrants and itineraries every year making the housing prices aggrandize. The comparisons should be supported with much more evidences to draw the conclusion. Hence, the author's claim cannot be accepted.
Thus, in total, the author's claims, concerns though looked proper in the beginning, the argument is inherently flawed. The comaprisons mad lacks proper evidences. No proper relations between the proposed statements can be noted. Still greater and deeper study has to made before concluding and proposing the measure.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: The comaprisons mad lacks proper evidences.
Error: comaprisons Suggestion: comparisons
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 385 350
No. of Characters: 1970 1500
No. of Different Words: 169 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.43 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.117 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.592 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 163 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.68 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.409 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.514 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 575, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e which definitely has to be addressed. Secondly, the author is making a compari...
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Line 9, column 230, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Still,
...n the proposed statements can be noted. Still greater and deeper study has to made be...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, look, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, thus, as to, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2017.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 385.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23896103896 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65554915327 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.444155844156 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 610.2 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.3286718145 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.6818181818 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.72727272727 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.175289172535 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.052533348719 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0676197387065 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103307502472 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0680011508415 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => 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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