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 argument states that with the proposed law preventing the development of exisiting farmland in the Maple County, the housing prices will increase significantly. On a casual reading,the argument seems logically correct,but with a closer inspection of the premises exposes certain loopholes in the argument. The author needs to address certain assumptions by strong evidence or data in order to support the argument.
Firstly,the author states two other county examples having passed similar laws ,but getting different housing prices trends.However,these laws as been passed 10 and 15 years before which raises their credibility. It is highly likely that circumstances must be different at those times which may not apply now.Another possibility is that county experiencing higher housing prices may have higher population than other with lower population where prices remained almost same.Therefore,the author needs to provide a more recent example or study for doing proper comparative analysis for the recommendation.
Futhermore,the author states that banning development on farmland will increase the housing prices.However,the author has not provided any substantial information or evidence supporting the argument.It may be possible that sufficient housing property is already available in the county for everyone.The author needs to properly scrutinize the housing demand in the county through reliable studies or strong statistical evidences.Additonally,it may be possible that farmlands used for housing may be not fertile and would provide more revenue when used as housing property.Therefore,having a proper study of county's farmlands usage on housing will surely clear out many loophols,strengthening the recommedation.
In conclusion,the argument could have been more persuasive to readers if author would have used recent studies and statistical evidences for supporting the argument. Moreover,the author needs to provide more detail for the direct relationship between the farmland usage and the housing prices in county.The author could have strengthen his argument by documenting its important assumptions with data or surveys.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 328 350
No. of Characters: 1809 1500
No. of Different Words: 167 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.256 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.515 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.763 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 113 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 36.444 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.895 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.456 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.717 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.147 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, then, therefore, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 55.5748502994 54% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1857.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 307.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.04885993485 5.12650576532 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.66379001541 2.78398813304 132% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.530944625407 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 572.4 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.59920159681 119% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 19.7664670659 40% => 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: 38.0 22.8473053892 166% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 185.831198605 57.8364921388 321% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 232.125 119.503703932 194% => OK
Words per sentence: 38.375 23.324526521 165% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.875 5.70786347227 173% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 25.0 5.25449101796 476% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0749499288289 0.218282227539 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0441386524041 0.0743258471296 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0603967468093 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0540985891424 0.128457276422 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0276976630913 0.0628817314937 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 26.3 14.3799401198 183% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 7.53 48.3550499002 16% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 7.1628742515 204% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 21.7 12.197005988 178% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 18.4 12.5979740519 146% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.15 8.32208582834 122% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 17.2 11.1389221557 154% => OK
text_standard: 22.0 11.9071856287 185% => 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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