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 argument from a central plaza owner regarding skateboarding stands on flawed assumptions. The statement says the number of shoppers in central plaza has been steadily decreasing does not give the reason of why it was failing and mentions that popularity of the skateboards is increasing.
The author fails to mention any relation connecting the popularity of skateboards and decline of shoppers. It also says that is happening over two years and author fails to mention whether any external factor is affecting the sales or not. It may happen that during those two years, economic may have occurred in the country, causing people to spend less money on personal items. So, this does not show any relation between the shoppers and the skateboard popularity.
The argument says that many of the shop owner are blaming on skateboard popularity. First, it does not mention about “all the shop owner in the plaza”. So, mentioning “most of the shop owner” is vague as it specifies any population characteristics. For example, it may happen that the people asked for given issue do not like skateboard in general, giving an answer which is far away from the reality. It may also happen that people who left out liked skateboarding in the plaza, giving them some kind of entertainment in their work time. So, basing that skateboarding is the reason of low sale is not true. Author should consider the views of all the shopkeepers to support the argument.
The argument mentions there have been dramatic increase in litter and vandalism in plaza. This argument is made on the assumption that skateboarding is the reason of litter and argument. But author fails to mention any proper proof regarding the vandalism caused by skateboarding that will bolster the assumption. It may happen that during the time, riot or protest may have taken place in the plaza causing such damage. Author should provide the proper instances and situations showing skateboarding as the reason the litter and vandalism to support the given argument.
As thought the argument author fails to mention any direct effect of skateboarding so saying the prohibiting such act will resume the shopping is vague. The reduction in number of shoppers may be due to lower quality of good they are selling causing shopper to find any other alternative.
The above reasons show the assumption the passage does hold true for all case and fails to support the argument. So, prohibiting all the skateboarding will increase the sales is not true.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 416 350
No. of Characters: 2044 1500
No. of Different Words: 182 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.516 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.913 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.69 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 144 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.909 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.744 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.557 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...y of the skateboards is increasing. The author fails to mention any relation co...
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Line 7, column 572, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...andalism to support the given argument. As thought the argument author fails to ...
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Line 11, column 189, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ng will increase the sales is not true.
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, regarding, so, for example, in general, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2123.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 416.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10336538462 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80021457962 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.456730769231 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 643.5 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.000936195 57.8364921388 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 96.5 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9090909091 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.36363636364 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214258677923 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734874533058 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0789260228663 0.0701772020484 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131730587396 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.125611980442 0.0628817314937 200% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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.