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 provided is basically about how to lower the mopeds accidents rate. And the author suggested to limit the amount of renting mopeds as a solution. However, in his letter, there are some questions we need to ask before taking action upon his suggestion.
The first question we need to ask is “ What is the fundamental cause of the accidents?” If the cause of the accidents are the improper drive of mopeds, then limiting the mopeds renting a day can only reduce the income from renting mopeds, and the number of accidents would still left unsolved. Or even the cause of those accidents are because of the pedestrians who don’t follow traffic rules and go across the road without watching out the on coming vehicles. So it is important for us to ask the real underling problem behind the cause of those accidents, and it is also the question that worth the council to think about before cutting the number of renting mopeds.
The author also mentioned in the latter half of the letter that the town council would attain half of the annual reduction. Then here we need to ask: based on what evidence or what data can the author be sure that cutting the renting number of mopeds in half would help reduce the accidents? Can he provide any data that shows the accidents happened in the past 5 years on the island are mostly caused by the overloading number of mopeds? Or did any group of experts in the area of traffic safety or experts in other relevant fields agree with his opinion? The author needs to provide effective evidence alongside his suggestion so his reader can know how much his readers can believe in his words.
Lastly, the author said in the very end of the letter that the Seaville’s town successfully reduce their accident rate by limiting the number of mopeds so the same method should be also applied on Balm Island. The last question we need to ask is : how can he make sure that applying the same method that used in Seaville’s town can also be effective in this Island? How can these two island be comparable in this scenario? The author needs to proof that the two island are similar in the essence of the traffic or the main cause of the accidents so his suggestion would be worth taking.
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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: 16 15
No. of Words: 400 350
No. of Characters: 1790 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.472 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.475 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.256 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 128 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 73 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.703 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.382 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.566 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.204 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 95, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggested limiting'.
Suggestion: suggested limiting
...e mopeds accidents rate. And the author suggested to limit the amount of renting mopeds as a solut...
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Line 5, column 290, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'leave'
Suggestion: leave
...and the number of accidents would still left unsolved. Or even the cause of those ac...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, lastly, so, still, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1863.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 400.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.6575 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47518514491 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.45 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 579.6 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.5583648686 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.2 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6666666667 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.26666666667 5.70786347227 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.134776587914 0.218282227539 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0570377201917 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0426795446653 0.0701772020484 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0918209193414 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0188769939521 0.0628817314937 30% => 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: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.04 12.5979740519 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => 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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