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 letter presents a highly unjustified slippery slope of conclusions based on unhinged assumptions made by the owner at Central Plaza. The pragmatic reasons for the downfall of the commercial hub still remain unreasoned. We shall take a look at the two main premises one by one.
Firstly, the owner of the shop state that there has been a steady decrease of the number of shoppers in the Plaza and on the other hand, popularity of skateboarding has rocketed. Both of these facts fail to balance each other in any way. Perhaps the number of shoppers had decreased because there was a better, more accessible hub built someplace near and Central Plaza merely fell victim of being over-shadowed by its superior counterpart. The rise in popularity of skateboarding may simply be because of a recent inspiring movie that revolved around the handiness & the uber-ness of skateboards that many cyclists or daily commutes simply took upon the skateboard as their recent trend; or there may have been a recent demolition of some skate-park nearby that drove the kids from their native hangout to nearby places.
Second, the writer claims that the amount of litter and vandalism in the plaza has become a rising problem. While one can tag the skateboarding-culture with myriad of graffiti artists and a non-prerogative show of discipline, it is not entirely true and reasonable to stereotype the situation. Instead, the rise in litter can be related to the fact that low attendance at the Plaza would require there to be less maintenance and moreover, less security- hence the vandalism as well. A probable cause could also justify that less attendance stripped the Plaza of maintenance budget.
However, it would benefit the author’s argument if he provided more correlation to situations- like- evidence that show increase in attendance of skateboarders inevitably resulting in less attendance of public due to a non-disciplined environment. It would also add to the author’s conclusion if he could provide necessary information about routines being carried out to ensure the Plaza’s maintenance so that any anomalies can be observed to grasp why Central Plaza tends at being abused.
Consequently, based on the current facts that the owner has provided us with show no correlation as to why prohibiting skateboarding in the plaza will return business to the hub and reduce its misuse; or if it does, it instead solely relies on balance of probability which can only be assured with more concrete evidence and observations currently untended to.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'consequently', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'well', 'while', 'as to', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.238410596026 0.25644967241 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.141280353201 0.15541462614 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0949227373068 0.0836205057962 114% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0529801324503 0.0520304965353 102% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0286975717439 0.0272364105082 105% => OK
Prepositions: 0.14348785872 0.125424944231 114% => OK
Participles: 0.0529801324503 0.0416121511921 127% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.0921719021 2.79052419416 111% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0286975717439 0.026700313972 107% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.112582781457 0.113004496875 100% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0286975717439 0.0255425247493 112% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0110375275938 0.0127820249294 86% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2562.0 2731.13054187 94% => OK
No of words: 415.0 446.07635468 93% => OK
Chars per words: 6.1734939759 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.57801047555 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.363855421687 0.378187486979 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.284337349398 0.287650121315 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.221686746988 0.208842608468 106% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.146987951807 0.135150697306 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0921719021 2.79052419416 111% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 207.018472906 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549397590361 0.469332199767 117% => OK
Word variations: 63.6413760765 52.1807786196 122% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.039408867 70% => OK
Sentence length: 29.6428571429 23.2022227129 128% => OK
Sentence length SD: 98.8322894027 57.7814097925 171% => OK
Chars per sentence: 183.0 141.986410481 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6428571429 23.2022227129 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.21428571429 0.724660767414 168% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 58.0765920826 51.9672348444 112% => OK
Elegance: 1.9504950495 1.8405768891 106% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.565010694613 0.441005458295 128% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.117888563035 0.135418324435 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.065292785181 0.0829849096947 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.652679598389 0.58762219726 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.162939780994 0.147661913831 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.253786029078 0.193483328276 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109894103674 0.0970749176394 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.385669061235 0.42659136922 90% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0668365438637 0.0774707102158 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.362564407267 0.312017818177 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.089106208309 0.0698173142475 128% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 14.657635468 89% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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