Critique the reasoning used in the argument below. You are not being asked to discuss your point of view on the argument. You should identify and analyze the central elements of the argument, the underlying assumptions that are being made, and any supporting information that is given. You critique can also discuss other information that would strengthen or weaken the argument or make it more logical.
The following appeared in a memo from the mayor of the town of Hopewell.
"Two years ago, the town of Ocean View built a new municipal golf course and resort hotel. During the past two years, tourism in Ocean View has increased, new businesses have opened there, and Ocean Views tax revenues have risen by 30 percent. The best way to improve Hopewells economy, and generate additional tax revenues, is to build a golf course and resort hotel similar to those in Ocean View."
In the above argument the mayor claims that there was boom on the economy of the Ocean view town from the past two years. He states that since they built a new golf course and resort hotel exactly two year back , since then there was increase in the tourism and also new businesses have established there base in the town. So the economy and the additional tax revenue has risen by 30%. So, he thinks that this all happened due to the golf course and resort and suggests another town named Hopewells to follow the same to make profits like Ocean View.
In the argument , the mayor states that there is an increase in tourism and new businesses have opened there due to the golf course and resort hotel .In a way we can accept that these could play a major role in increasing the tourism but we can't say weather new businesses were established in the town due to a golf course and a resort. When a entrepreneur comes to setup his business Does he look for luxuries to set up? maybe but he needs more ,the main aim for any business is to make profits and these doesn't get profits.
There may be other reason for the establishment of the new businesses. Tax relaxation, high requirement rate of that product, cheap labor , low cost raw materials or maybe easy transportation to major cities could strengthen this argument. Percentages are always tricky and manipulating. Here in the argument mayor states that the revenues have risen by 30 percent. But we don't know the total amount of revenue increased. Even there could be very less revenue in the town before tow years and 30% increase could be mearge. Maybe this could also be true since there are golf course and resorts , the municipal over there could impose additional taxation in the tourists and new businesses for these luxuries.
The mayor suggests other town also build these for making profit. Is it really worth it? There are many questions that are to be answered for this. Building them could be very expensive in that place. And are the locals really interested in these kind of luxuries? Is that much space is available in that town? Is infrastructure that good for tourism in that area? And are the locals will be willing to pay the extra taxes which will be imposed after construction? So there are many questions to that this argument fails to answer.
As I have unravelled the defects of the argument, I strongly recommend the mayor to withdraw this memo, conduct concrete research on the subject before it can provide any genuine advice to the other town.
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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: 12 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 450 350
No. of Characters: 2036 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.606 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.524 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.373 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.565 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.647 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.522 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.264 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.46 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 211, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...e and resort hotel exactly two year back , since then there was increase in the to...
^^
Line 1, column 568, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...profits like Ocean View. In the argument , the mayor states that there is an incre...
^^
Line 1, column 701, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... due to the golf course and resort hotel .In a way we can accept that these could ...
^^
Line 1, column 703, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: In
...ue to the golf course and resort hotel .In a way we can accept that these could pl...
^^
Line 1, column 794, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...r role in increasing the tourism but we cant say weather new businesses were establi...
^^^^
Line 1, column 895, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...due to a golf course and a resort. When a entrepreneur comes to setup his busines...
^
Line 1, column 916, Rule ID: CAN_SETUP[1]
Message: Did you mean 'to set up'?
Suggestion: to set up
...and a resort. When a entrepreneur comes to setup his business Does he look for luxuries ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 975, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Maybe
...ss Does he look for luxuries to set up? maybe but he needs more ,the main aim for any...
^^^^^
Line 1, column 998, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...uries to set up? maybe but he needs more ,the main aim for any business is to make...
^^
Line 1, column 1059, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...y business is to make profits and these doesnt get profits. There may be other reason ...
^^^^^^
Line 1, column 1216, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...rement rate of that product, cheap labor , low cost raw materials or maybe easy tr...
^^
Line 1, column 1452, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...venues have risen by 30 percent. But we dont know the total amount of revenue increa...
^^^^
Line 1, column 1671, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... since there are golf course and resorts , the municipal over there could impose a...
^^
Line 1, column 2028, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
...And are the locals really interested in these kind of luxuries? Is that much space is avai...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, look, may, really, so, then, well, 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: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2071.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 448.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.62276785714 5.12650576532 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42679148266 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486607142857 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 654.3 705.55239521 93% => 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: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 70.5202763395 57.8364921388 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.2916666667 119.503703932 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6666666667 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.20833333333 5.70786347227 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 1.0 5.15768463074 19% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.127140147653 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0397713664031 0.0743258471296 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0400706098523 0.0701772020484 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127140147653 0.128457276422 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0628817314937 0% => 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: 9.7 14.3799401198 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.52 12.5979740519 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.31 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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