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 store owner claims that skateboarding users are the reason that the business decrease in the plaza and the skateboarders cause the littering and vandalism increasing, so in order for the business to return, the city should ban skateboarding in the plaza. The argument is full of assumptions that are not back by any evidence that skateboarding is the issue.
First of all, is the increase of skateboarding the reason that causes the business decreasing in the plaza? In order to evaluate the recommendation, we need to know that there is no other reason, besides skateboarding, decrease the business because there might be a third variable causing the decline in business or the relationship is just a coincidence. For example, people might stop coming to the plaza because the things that are sold in the stores are too old-fashioned. It can also be that because there is another new plaza that just opens recently, and people like the stores in the new plaza more. In those cases, the relationship between the skateboarding and business will be just a pure coincidence and banning the skateboarding will not help improve the business. Moreover, a third variable like city promoting sports could be the reason the increase in the population of skateboarders and decrease the population of shoppers. Because people start spending time doing sports, such as skateboarding, more, they do not have time to go shopping. In this case, banning skateboarding might not help with the business because people could still turn to other sports, like basketball or running.
Secondly, do skateboarders cause the littering and vandalism? There might be other reasons that cause the increase in littering and vandalism in the plaza. For example, the janitors might quit the job, and no one is cleaning the plaza anymore so naturally there is more and more trashes. Moreover, vandalism could be caused by anyone from the neighborhood other than the skateboarders. Perhaps one of the store owners had a quarreling with a customer and the customer decides to revenge by damaging the properties in the plaza. In order to decide if the recommendation will improve the business, the city need to make sure the skateboarders cause the littering and vandalism, which bring down the business. If not, stopping the skateboarders would not solve the issue.
The author does not provide evidence that skateboarders are the reason for the decline in business and the littering and vandalism. As a result, the argument does not have the answers that are essential in evaluating the recommendation.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- ???
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minimum 3 arguments wanted.
Need to argue against the conclusion always. For this topic it is:
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.
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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: 19 15
No. of Words: 421 350
No. of Characters: 2108 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.53 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.007 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.937 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.158 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.362 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.35 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.437 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.095 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, third, for example, such as, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2162.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 421.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13539192399 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0343207138 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.408551068884 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 674.1 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.8920970305 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.789473684 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1578947368 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.26315789474 5.70786347227 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.147797458754 0.218282227539 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0558376317256 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0492307029846 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0994762399261 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0515991529632 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.39 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => 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.