The following appeared in a memo from a budget planner for the city of Grandview.
"When the Grandview Symphony was established ten years ago, the city of Grandview agreed to provide the symphony with annual funding until the symphony became self-sustaining. Two years ago, the symphony hired an internationally known conductor, who has been able to attract high-profile guest musicians to perform with the symphony. Since then, private contributions to the symphony have tripled and attendance at the symphony's outdoor summer concert series has reached record highs. Now that the symphony has succeeded in finding an audience, the city can eliminate its funding of the symphony."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The budget planner raised a valid concern to eliminate funding by Grandview city to Grandview symphony so that the city can possibly concentrate on more important issues. However, the argument presented by the budget planner lacks congency and evidences to support the recommendation.
The budget planner states that according to the agreement signed between Grandview city and Grandview symphony, the funding from city would stop once the symphony becomes self sustaining. But, the budget planner failed to mention whether the city is obliged to cover annual expenditures of symphony, if it once again goes down the hill after becoming self sustaining or not. If the city has agreed to pay for symphony after it loses it self-sufficiency, then the city would have to settle the penury issues of symphony, and thus, the recommendation would not stand valid then.
Also, the budget planner fails to mention the percentage of annual expenditure covered by city over the past years and the debt symphony might have accumulated in the span of ten years. If the city did not cover enough expenses of the symphony, then the symphony would have been coerced in issuing loans from banks in order to sustain. The increased private contributions might have been used up in clearing the accumulated debt and thus rendering them to zero loss-zero profit status. If the city cuts off its supply, then the symphony will cease to exist. If this is true, then the recommendation would lose its value. Thus, the city also needs to compare the profit against accumulation of debts or losses faced by symphony.
Furthermore, the memo fails to provide any evidence whether the conductor, who brought in internationally acclaimed musical artist to perform with symphony is still associated with symphony or not. If associated, would the symphony be able to pay his salary even without funding from city? If not, then it would not br fruitful to accept the recommendation as it would deteriorate the condition of symphony. If not associated, then is the symphony capable of attracting musical artist from other parts of the world or not? If they are not capable without support from city, it would be illogical to let go of present profits of symphony by adhering to recommendation.
Planning budget accordingly to the needs of different sectors is very important task. It should be done by thoroughly analyzing the requirements of different sectors and the adverse conditions faced by them. The budget planner put forth an argument full of holes and assumptions without providing supporting evidences, making the recommendation inapplicable.
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Comments
e-rater score report
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: 425 350
No. of Characters: 2154 1500
No. of Different Words: 199 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.068 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.845 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.368 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.83 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.842 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.36 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.36 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 121, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'can'.
Suggestion: can
... to Grandview symphony so that the city can possibly concentrate on more important issues. H...
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Line 4, column 408, 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.
... deteriorate the condition of symphony. If not associated, then is the symphony ca...
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Line 4, column 523, 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.
...t from other parts of the world or not? If they are not capable without support fr...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, furthermore, however, if, so, still, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 13.6137724551 22% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2202.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 425.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18117647059 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91545078628 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496470588235 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 684.9 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3131709061 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.894736842 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3684210526 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.73684210526 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.385549518257 0.218282227539 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118249446935 0.0743258471296 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108117908716 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.216446794043 0.128457276422 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.103772944056 0.0628817314937 165% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => 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: 13.06 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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