The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette states that the council of Balmer Island should qualify the number of mopeds from 50 to 25 per day during the summer time to decrease the number of accidents. It is based on the premise that by making a comparative analysis with the Seaville island. However, the argument contains many unwarranted assumptions that raise some questions to accept the claim of the letter.
First of all, is moped really responsible for the occurrence of frequent number of accidents? It has been stated in the argument that the number needs to be reduced during the summer only which indicates that perhaps during the summer, there is heavy rainfalls in that region which make the roads unsuitable to walk or move. In that case, it will only add burdens to the local community to limit the number of mopeds in that area. The lack of sufficient information regarding the relation between the number of accidents and the number of mopeds seriously undermines the claim of the letter.
Secondly, are the accidents by the mopeds of the Seaville island and Balmer island comparable? It may be possible that the road pattern and the regional characteristics of the Seaville island are completely different from Balmer island. Probably, the Seaville island is located near the ocean and people have to use boats, or other means of water transportation medium for the ease of their business and other purposes. Since there is less need to use mopeds as the mode of transportation, there were very few accidents in the Seaville islands and gradually becomes half after reducing their number in the last year. However, similar analysis has been stated for the Balmer island in the argument which weakens the argument as a whole.
Finally, even if the mopeds are responsible for higher accident rates in the Balmer island, will the limitation bring lowered number of accidents? It might be possible that with the increase of population, there are not sufficient number of mopeds in the area. As a consequence, the mopeds are always overcrowded with the riders and it becomes arduous for the moped drivers to drive relentlessly and carefully all the time. If this becomes true, the argument as a whole will fall apart and instead of decreasing the number of mopeds, it has to be increased. Therefore, the writer of the letter is supposed to present some evidence regarding the fact that the current number of mopeds is large enough to cause frequent accidents or his conclusion can't be accepted.
To summarize, the author of the letter needs to answer the above mentioned questions to acknowledge his claim as true and agree with the fact that the reduction of the number of mopeds will result in fewer number of accidents. Otherwise, it would be considered a flawed argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 474 350
No. of Characters: 2288 1500
No. of Different Words: 205 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.666 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.827 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.568 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.947 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.11 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.474 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.365 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.562 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.111 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 165, Rule ID: SUMMER_TIME[2]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...mopeds from 50 to 25 per day during the summer time to decrease the number of accidents. It...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 237, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are heavy rainfalls'?
Suggestion: there are heavy rainfalls
...dicates that perhaps during the summer, there is heavy rainfalls in that region which make the roads uns...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 747, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...se frequent accidents or his conclusion cant be accepted. To summarize, the autho...
^^^^
Line 9, column 123, Rule ID: AGREE_WITH_THE_FACT[1]
Message: Use simply 'agree that'.
Suggestion: agree that
...ns to acknowledge his claim as true and agree with the fact that the reduction of the number of mopeds w...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, may, really, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, as to, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 55.5748502994 135% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2339.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 474.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93459915612 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66599839874 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64827770736 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.445147679325 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 739.8 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.973233833 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.105263158 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9473684211 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52631578947 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.345380865756 0.218282227539 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11624095416 0.0743258471296 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0928610688719 0.0701772020484 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201920888404 0.128457276422 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0800796626158 0.0628817314937 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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