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 first question that should be answered is whether the limit in the supply of new housing will stop the trend of overdevelopment of the county. For example, it would be possible that, although less people lived there, they tended to exploit more the farmland, leading to the same result as if there was more population. If it is proved true that a decrease in the number of inhabitants is the direct cause for the avoidance of overdevelopment, this policy would probably be successful.
Secondly, was the reason for implementing the measure in Chestnut County the possible overdevelopment? It is possible that limiting environmental factors had affected the decision to apply that policy, and, in this case, prices of houses would not have increased, as people would not be as interested as they would be to develop farmland in that place. In this sense, it is clear that an explanation of the reason for the implementation of that measure in Chestnut County should be given.
Thirdly, were overall prices much lower fifteen years ago than ten years ago? To exemplify the possible influence of an affirmative answer to this question, imagine that an economic crisis took place fifteen years ago, and five years later there was a period of economy improvement. This would mean that prices would have been very low during the last years, and had increased steeply after that. Hence, if this hypothesis is proved true, no determining conclusion can be extracted from the sentences related to these factors.
Finally, has Pine County developed a lot its touristic attractions, or its industry, during the last years? It is plausible that the huge rise in its residential prices are a direct consequence of the economic flourishing of the county. This would mean that, as the conditions that have led to that increase in the prices are different from the ones in Maple County, the same conclusion cannot be reached. Thus, the statement concluded may not be adequate if this hypothesis holds true.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 333 350
No. of Characters: 1622 1500
No. of Different Words: 165 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.272 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.871 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.731 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 113 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.786 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.282 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.339 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.566 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.051 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 197, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...le, it would be possible that, although less people lived there, they tended to expl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1673.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 333.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02402402402 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81773229583 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.531531531532 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 520.2 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.0937376773 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.5 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7857142857 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21428571429 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.104429954071 0.218282227539 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0401712100879 0.0743258471296 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0304255994244 0.0701772020484 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0711109429746 0.128457276422 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344857924108 0.0628817314937 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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