The following is a memorandum from the office of Mayor Harrison Smith Jones.
"In order to relieve Briggsville’s notorious traffic congestion, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones plans to build a multi-million dollar subway system. The subway will run through the major downtown areas, a part of the town where buses serve as the only form of public transportation. For years, residents have been complaining both about inconsistent buses, and the general lack of safety while riding the buses. Additionally, the subway will be running twenty-four hours a day. Since motorists will spend less time in traffic, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones expects to see an immediate increase in worker productivity, which will improve the economy of Briggsville."
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 argument put for in the memorandum from the office of mayor seems to assume certain trends and effects that will result from the construction of subway service which can easily but put into question that needs to be rectified to go ahead with such a memorandum. At times the situation as accessed in the memorandum like this may prove to be another way around in practice.
In order to relieve Bridgeville's traffic congestion, the solution of construction the subway service may actually be not needed despite investing a large sum of money which can be somewhere else utilized in order to improve the economy of the city. As the congestion in traffic may also be due to the infrastructure constructions projects taking place in the city or due to mismanagement of canals and other public waterworks aspects which can lead to blockage of certain areas in the city. Moreover, it may be due to the bad quality of the road which often leads to congestions. So the problem of traffic congestion cannot be assessed by a single factor alone which if corrected may also prove to increase the economy.
As busses being the only form of public transport as reported by the residents doesn't prove that another form of public transport is required although the busses are inconsistent as reported by residents which may not be completely correct as the complaints may be from certain remote parts of the city which don't necessarily give the true picture of the availability of the public transport in the city . Moreover, it can also be possible that an increase in the number of busses in the central parts of the city leads to frequent congestion of traffic. The bus service may not be inconsistent in certain areas and may actually be inconsistent in other areas.
The running period of the subway does not guarantee the usage of this service as it may happen that people living in the city prefer their own vehicle over such a subway service. This claim often tells nothing about the usability of the service which is quite vague in its context that needs to be addressed first.in the argument, as put forth by the mayor that people spend less time in the traffic assumes that the workers involved in the development of the city are traveling from the congestion prone area of the city for which no quantitative proof has been presented in the memorandum.
So in an attempt to conclude this argument, I would consider this memorandum to be flawed in many aspects and needs to be redressed before it goes into action along with the incorporation of certain quantitative measures so as to justify the relevant course of action
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Essay evaluation report
Need to argue against the conclusion always. For this topic it is:
Since motorists will spend less time in traffic, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones expects to see an immediate increase in worker productivity, which will improve the economy of Briggsville.
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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: 12 15
No. of Words: 456 350
No. of Characters: 2148 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.621 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.711 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.693 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 113 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 38 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.912 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.917 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.412 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.679 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.112 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: is
...assessed by a single factor alone which if corrected may also prove to increase th...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... transport as reported by the residents doesnt prove that another form of public trans...
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Line 5, column 310, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... certain remote parts of the city which dont necessarily give the true picture of th...
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Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...lity of the public transport in the city . Moreover, it can also be possible that ...
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Line 9, column 222, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ration of certain quantitative measures so as to justify the relevant course of action
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, may, moreover, so, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 82.0 55.5748502994 148% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2179.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 454.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79955947137 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72571425027 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.447136563877 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 694.8 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 37.0 22.8473053892 162% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 105.162440486 57.8364921388 182% => OK
Chars per sentence: 181.583333333 119.503703932 152% => OK
Words per sentence: 37.8333333333 23.324526521 162% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.0980939825157 0.218282227539 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0440691853057 0.0743258471296 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.048339426217 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0666517516686 0.128457276422 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0495838222542 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.1 14.3799401198 140% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.38 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.5 12.197005988 135% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.8 11.1389221557 151% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.9071856287 143% => 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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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.