The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe tnerhat the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
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 store owner of the central plaza believes that popularity of skateboarding has become a cause for the reduction of number of shoppers in their shops. he makes that statement based on the evidence that the amount of litter and vandalism has increased throughout the plaza. At first the argument might seem convincing but on second consideration is is clear that it is rife with many assumptions. hence it is not cogent and these factors need to be taken into consideration.
First question that need to be answered is: does popularity of skateboarding and curtailing of shoppers have any real connection? Argument assumes that the reason for reduction in number of buyers at plaza is due to skateboarding. however it may not be true. It maybe be because of shoppers not wanting to buy from central plaza anymore in recent years. it maybe be because of bad quality at the plaza or because of augment of prices. hence, in order to strengthen the argument the main reason behind the cause should be known by conducting a survey.
Second question that needs to be answered is: Is skateboarding the real cause of littering and vandalism? the argument assumes that it is caused by increase in skateboarding. The argument does not mention the other probable causes like insociant buyers throwing waste on the plaza or stray dogs littering the plaza. It directly blames the skateboarding without enough proof. hence in order to strengthen the argument more evidence on the cause of littering and vandalism is needed.
Lastly the question which needs to be answered is: Will there prediction after prohibiting the skateboarding will be true? The owners assume that after thwarting the skateboarders the number of shoppers will reconcile. It does not take others factors which would impede their profit into consideration like the new population or the traffic into account. hence it weakens the argument and more information is need to bolster it like current census or traffic data.
In conclusion, many more questions need to be answered before eliciting the conclusion. the evidence stated in the argument does little to support the conclusion that skateboarding should be prohibited. Thus all these factors need to be considered abreast with appropriate evidence like surveys to take the final decision.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 377 350
No. of Characters: 1894 1500
No. of Different Words: 169 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.406 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.024 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.829 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.211 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.388 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.64 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.069 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...rity of skateboarding has become a cause for the reduction of number of shoppers ...
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...n of number of shoppers in their shops. he makes that statement based on the evide...
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... convincing but on second consideration is is clear that it is rife with many assumpt...
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... real cause of littering and vandalism? the argument assumes that it is caused by i...
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...ciant buyers throwing waste on the plaza or stray dogs littering the plaza. It di...
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...population or the traffic into account. hence it weakens the argument and more inform...
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...swered before eliciting the conclusion. the evidence stated in the argument does li...
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...d in the argument does little to support the conclusion that skateboarding should...
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Suggestion: Thus,
...hat skateboarding should be prohibited. Thus all these factors need to be considere...
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...skateboarding should be prohibited. Thus all these factors need to be considered ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, lastly, may, second, so, then, thus, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1937.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 377.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13793103448 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88991768545 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.448275862069 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.6616410804 57.8364921388 50% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.0454545455 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1363636364 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.72727272727 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 22.0 5.25449101796 419% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164275792114 0.218282227539 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0562009659156 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0773446137895 0.0701772020484 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10446439456 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0736818618017 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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