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 that 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 author of the letter believes that the prohibition of skateboarding will lead to the revival of the businesses in Central Plaza, citing reasons that a number of skateboard users have surged along with an increase in the amount of litter and vandalism in the plaza. However, this recommendation can be properly evaluated if three questions are answered.
First of all, does the author of the letter have evidence to prove that skateboarders caused the litter and vandalism in the plaza? It might have been the case that the shop owners and the staff might themselves be littering the campus. Due to lack of customers, the working staff of shops in Central Plaza has less work to do and they spend most of their time roaming in the Plaza, littering them. It could also be possible that the shop owners and their staff are frustrated due to lack of business and are themselves vandalizing the property of the Plaza. If either of these scenarios has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, what if the cause of shoppers plummeting in Central Plaza was because of product quality? It might be that the product quality and customer satisfaction were on a declivity in the Central Plaza which might have caused the number of customers to reduce. It could also be a case where the products sold were not much required for the customers and the number of customers started reducing. If either of the scenarios proves true, then the assertion by the author of the letter is significantly hampered.
Finally, what if the skateboarders in the Plaza increased due to a drop in the customers of the Central Plaza? It might be possible to say that the skateboarders were trying to find empty space with sporadic customers so that could practice their skateboarding. Due to the decrease in the customers made many of the skateboarders shift to this location. They also might be practicing their skateboarding without any disturbances to others. If the above is true, then the argument does not hold water.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the three questions and offer more evidence (perhaps in the form of a systematic research study), then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, 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: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1994.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 404.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93564356436 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87821799208 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.44801980198 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 620.1 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => 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: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5752566185 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.777777778 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4444444444 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225228517253 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0769535328477 0.0743258471296 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0856232844594 0.0701772020484 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130230447814 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677173481387 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, 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: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1994.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 404.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93564356436 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87821799208 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.44801980198 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 620.1 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => 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: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5752566185 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.777777778 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4444444444 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225228517253 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0769535328477 0.0743258471296 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0856232844594 0.0701772020484 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130230447814 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677173481387 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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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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.