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 for the city of Grandview concludes that the symphony has now successfully found an audience for itself and that the city can stop it's funding for them. The budget planner suggests this based on evidences like two years ago, the symphony took onboard an conductor who has been known to attract high-profile guest musicians to perform with them. Also, since then the private contribution has trippled and attendance of guests has reached a record high. The conclusion to be stated cogent the following 3 assumptions have to elucidated first.
Firstly, the planner states that the symphony hired a known conductor two years ago. The conductor has been able to get high-profile guest musician to perform with the symphony. The budget planner assumes that since two years ago, the conductor was able to get renouned artists to perform with the symphony, is going to stay like this forever. To illustrate this, consider a situation where 2 years ago the artists were available and hence agreed for the gig. But now there is a possibilty that the artists have their own tours, a tight schedule and the conductor is unable to arrange an artist to perform with the symphony.
Secondly, it is stated that the private contributions to the symphony has trippled. Here, the planner is assuming that "trippling" of the private contribution is propitious. But we don't know what the earlier contributions were. For instance, it could so be the case that earlier, the symphony had an almost non-existent private contribution. Also a possibilty of the contribution via families trying ot support their children associated to the symphony cannot be ruled out.
Lastly, it is given that the attendance at the symphony's outdoor summer concert series has reached records high. The budget planner assumes that attendance reaching record-high is a good sign of selfsustaining. But here we need reference to the prior attendance of their concerts. For examples, earlier there were 5 audience and now there are 20 coming to the concert. Although there is some increase in the number, such trivial numbers for a concert cannot help in becoming self-sustained. Also, the outdoor summer concert seeing many audience, makes the planner assume that all season concerts are going to be very will favourable. There is a possibility that the winter outdoor concert is not as fortuitous as the summer one.
Therefore, the conclusion of stoppping the funding to symphony by the budegt planner of the city Grandview is flawed. We need more comprehensive and quantitative evidences for the above assumptions been drawn by the planner. Only after a comprehensive view a pragmatic conclusion can be drawn.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 271, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...wo years ago, the symphony took onboard an conductor who has been known to attract...
^^
Line 3, column 192, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...vate contribution is propitious. But we dont know what the earlier contributions wer...
^^^^
Line 3, column 353, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...most non-existent private contribution. Also a possibilty of the contribution via fa...
^^^^
Line 4, column 318, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'audience' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'audiences'.
Suggestion: audiences
...rts. For examples, earlier there were 5 audience and now there are 20 coming to the conc...
^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 533, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun audience seems to be countable; consider using: 'many audiences'.
Suggestion: many audiences
...Also, the outdoor summer concert seeing many audience, makes the planner assume that all seas...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, as for, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2265.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 439.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15945330296 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95845844618 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478359908884 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 689.4 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.081601423 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.375 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2916666667 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267189252679 0.218282227539 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0732457308572 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0885465501015 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152460339336 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0721318856256 0.0628817314937 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 271, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...wo years ago, the symphony took onboard an conductor who has been known to attract...
^^
Line 3, column 192, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...vate contribution is propitious. But we dont know what the earlier contributions wer...
^^^^
Line 3, column 353, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...most non-existent private contribution. Also a possibilty of the contribution via fa...
^^^^
Line 4, column 318, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'audience' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'audiences'.
Suggestion: audiences
...rts. For examples, earlier there were 5 audience and now there are 20 coming to the conc...
^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 533, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun audience seems to be countable; consider using: 'many audiences'.
Suggestion: many audiences
...Also, the outdoor summer concert seeing many audience, makes the planner assume that all seas...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, as for, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2265.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 439.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15945330296 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95845844618 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478359908884 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 689.4 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.081601423 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.375 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2916666667 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267189252679 0.218282227539 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0732457308572 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0885465501015 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152460339336 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0721318856256 0.0628817314937 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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.