Downtown Zurzi is becoming increasingly congested with traffic, increasing commuting time for those
who work downtown or near downtown. The nearby city of Loft was faced with the same problem several
years ago and implemented a small weekly tax for driving one’s car downtown. Downtown traffic almost
immediately subsided in Loft and the local government also raised much needed money for fixing roads
elsewhere. Obviously, this plan should be implemented in Zurzi in order to solve the brewing traffic
congestion problem.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and
explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
According to the argument, Downtown Zurzi is being congested by traffic and they have suggested to implement a weekly tax for driving a car to the downtown in order to reduce the traffic similar to the one implemented in the nearby city of Loft. The above argument seems to be compelling but it’s effectiveness can be evaluated only after acquiring certain evidence.
Firstly, there is no evidence that the reduction in traffic in the city of Loft was due to the implementation of the weekly tax for driving one’s car downtown. There could have been other reasons as well for the reduction of traffic in Loft. Also, even though the tax implementation worked in Loft, it is not necessary that implementing weekly tax for driving one’s car downtown would reduce the traffic in downtown Zurzi. Evidence is needed to back this claim.
Moreover, we also need data regarding the traffic situation in Loft, whether it is as congested as downtown Zurzi or not. Also, there is no evidence for the claim that the money raised by the local government of Loft was used for fixing the roads. The money could have been used for other purposes as well which would reduce the effectiveness of implementing the weekly tax.
So, only after we get these evidences could we evaluate the usefulness of implementing the weekly tax for driving one’s car downtown. If implementing weekly tax was the main reason of reducing traffic in Loft then it would lend support to the argument and be effective for downtown Zurzi as well.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 259 350
No. of Characters: 1223 1500
No. of Different Words: 110 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.012 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.722 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.658 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 78 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 62 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 45 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.545 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.049 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.818 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.444 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.444 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.138 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 87, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggested implementing'.
Suggestion: suggested implementing
...eing congested by traffic and they have suggested to implement a weekly tax for driving a car to the d...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, moreover, regarding, so, then, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 55.5748502994 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1256.0 2260.96107784 56% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 259.0 441.139720559 59% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84942084942 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.56307096286 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69360852767 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 204.123752495 57% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447876447876 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 392.4 705.55239521 56% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 50.9631206798 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.181818182 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5454545455 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.379061326244 0.218282227539 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.180093867119 0.0743258471296 242% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125788693195 0.0701772020484 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.282435500607 0.128457276422 220% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0528730210679 0.0628817314937 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 98.500998004 49% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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