The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper.
"The primary function of the Committee for a Better Oak City is to advise the city government on how to make the best use of the city's limited budget. However, at some of our recent meetings we failed to make important decisions because of the foolish objections raised by committee members who are not even residents of Oak City. People who work in Oak City but who live elsewhere cannot fully understand the business and politics of the city. After all, only Oak City residents pay city taxes, and therefore only residents understand how that money could best be used to improve the city. We recommend, then, that the Committee for a Better Oak City vote to restrict its membership to city residents only. We predict that, without the interference of non-residents, the committee will be able to make Oak City a better place in which to live and work."
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.
First of all, are the objections raised by the non-resident committee members actually foolish? The statement doesn't say anything clearly about what are the objections. Maybe, the non-resident committee members has already seen the results of these kind of decisions in their hometown. From their experience they have concluded that these decisions can cause harmful effects on the Oak City.If this scenerio is true, then the argument doesn't hold water.
Secondly, are the non-residents really cannot fully understand the business and politics of the city? The non-resident committe members spend almost half of their day in the Oak City for work. They continuously work with the people who are resident of the Oak City. This time is quite enough to understand the business and politics of the city. Furthermore, it is possible that as they are non-resident, they can make decisions for the benefit of the whole city. They will not be biased to make such decisions which will only satisfy their needs. For example, a resident committe member may want to build a bicycle lane in his area as he loves cycling. But his area is already a busy area which may not be suitable for a bicyclelane. If either of this scenerio has merit, then conclusion drawn in argument is significantly weakened.
Thirdly, is it guaranteed that without the interference of non-residents, the committee will be able to make Oak City a better place in which to live and work? The non-residents committee members can have valueable experience which can help to make Oak City a better place. For example, if a non-residents committee member is from a famous town such as New York or California, they can help to make Oak City as prosperous as their city. If the committee consist of only residents committee members, the can never know how the most successful cities actually work.If this scenerio is true, then conclusion drawn in argument is significantly weakened.
In conclusion, the argument is considerably flawed due to it's reliance on several assumption. If the assumptions prove unwarranted the arguement will seriously fall apart.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 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: 351 350
No. of Characters: 1727 1500
No. of Different Words: 165 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.328 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.92 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.844 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 110 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.474 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.435 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.329 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.516 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.129 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
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Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
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Suggestion: If
...n cause harmful effects on the Oak City.If this scenerio is true, then the argumen...
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Suggestion: doesn't
...his scenerio is true, then the argument doesnt hold water. Secondly, are the non-...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'residents'' or 'resident's'?
Suggestion: residents'; resident's
... city. If the committee consist of only residents committee members, the can never know h...
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Suggestion: If
...he most successful cities actually work.If this scenerio is true, then conclusion ...
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Line 9, column 75, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun assumption seems to be countable; consider using: 'several assumptions'.
Suggestion: several assumptions
...siderably flawed due to its reliance on several assumption. If the assumptions prove unwarranted t...
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Line 9, column 95, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... to its reliance on several assumption. If the assumptions prove unwarranted the a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, furthermore, if, may, really, second, secondly, then, third, thirdly, for example, in conclusion, kind of, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1778.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 347.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12391930836 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91814315416 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.484149855908 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 549.9 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.4489125694 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5789473684 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2631578947 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.89473684211 5.70786347227 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191205290067 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0658331955173 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0743227094675 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108065860264 0.128457276422 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104994822189 0.0628817314937 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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