The argument claims that if the authority of Balmer Island restricts the quantity of mopeds for hire, the town council would achieve the analogous outcome of Seaville. Stated in this way the argument: reveals examples of leap of faith, poor reasoning and ill-defined terminology and fails to mention several key factors, on the basis of which it could be evaluated. The conclusion of the argument relies on assumptions for which there is no clear evidence. Hence, the argument is unconvincing and has several flaws.
First, the argument readily assumes that if the authorities of Balmer Island limit the number of rented mopeds, they would obtain the result that Seaville town does. This statement is a stretch since the author does not provide any analysis and evidence to prove this point. Suppose, for example: Do Balmer Island and Seaville Island have similar geographical characteristics?, Is the quality of mopeds in both islands from the same manufacturer? or How many tourists do these islands receive every summer? Clearly, the author does not mention context that leads to the decision of Seaville’s town council. The argument could have been much clearer if it explicitly stated that the reason why the town council of Balmer Island should proceed with this plan.
Second, the argument claims that to decline the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town committee of Balmer Island should reduce the number of rented mopeds from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. This is again a very weak and unsupported claim as the argument does not demonstrate any correlation between the number of mopeds and the number of accidents. To illustrate: How many numbers of mopeds and pedestrians are there in the town in peak time? Is the high number of pedestrians the cause of rapid increase in traffic collisions? If the argument had provided evidence that indicating connection between the number of mopeds and the number of accidents then the argument would have been a lot more convincing.
Finally, the recommendation is still ambiguous in many aspects. Why should the council apply this restricted order in the summer season instead of other season? What are the experiments that the authorities of Seaville town have made to conclude 25 is appropriate threshold value? Without convincing answers to these questions, one is left without the impression that the claim is more of wishful thinking rather than substantive evidence.
In conclusion, the argument is flawed for the above-mentioned reasons and is therefore unconvincing. It could be considerably strengthened if the author clearly mentioned all the relevant facts to support current conclusion that applying the policy would help the authorities of Balmer Island attain the similar result of Seaville town.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 452 350
No. of Characters: 2313 1500
No. of Different Words: 214 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.611 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.117 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.722 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 187 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 128 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.879 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.56 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 448, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
...oth islands from the same manufacturer? or How many tourists do these islands rece...
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Line 5, column 218, Rule ID: THE_FALL_SEASON[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...ds from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. This is again a very weak and unsuppor...
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Line 7, column 119, Rule ID: THE_FALL_SEASON[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
... council apply this restricted order in the summer season instead of other season? What are the e...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, if, second, so, still, then, therefore, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2375.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 452.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25442477876 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84020737601 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.482300884956 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 720.9 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.581822644 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.095238095 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5238095238 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.2380952381 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.196522101234 0.218282227539 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0598602247581 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.066723708048 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104780020063 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0756642911507 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 98.500998004 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.