In this argument, the Mayor of Briggsville asserts that a downtown subway will help to accelerate the workers' productivity that will directly improve the economy of the town. To support this, he has also given certain evidences and assumptions that found less convincing as a reader.
Firstly, the author given that there is notorious traffic congestion, but he didn't specified the factors like route on which the traffic congestion occur as well as time and day at which the jam is undoubtedly appear. There might be the possibility that the traffic is more only during the peak hours of the working days but not on weekend. Furthermore, there could be a particular road ways on which the congestion is occurring frequently and instead of building a multi-million dollar subway system, a flyover could help in resolving the problem. Also, constructing a flyover is definitely more thrifty that constructing a subway and the money saved can be utilized to address the other economical issues of the town which is one of the concern of the mayor.
The author should address the issue on a rudimentary basis to find the root cause and ultimately assist in finding the solution. In this, the Major put a light on the public transportation facility provided in the town and the public complaints regarding to this facility. It is clearing mentioned that the buses are inconsistent and the people find it to be life threatening while traveling into such a conveyance. However this problem needs more clarification in order to reach a conclusion. For instance, the factor on which the buses found to be inconsistent like frequency of the buses, capacity and condition of the buses is not mentioned. If this information is provided then it will help to work on the existing facility provided which will be less time consuming rather than working on a new one from the scratch.
Finally the author made an assumption which may not be relevant to the issue. He said that the creation of subway will improve the workers' productivity and also improve the economy of the town. Productivity of the worker is dependent various points like salary, working hours, appreciation, work load in which traffic congestion place a minor role.
Furthermore, considering the economy of a place can be based on many means like agriculture, tourism, industrialization, but as this information is missing in the claim, we cannot directly relate the economy to the traffic jam issue. For example, if the major part of the economic contribution is from agriculture then the people might stay into their farm for their lively hood and would not in a need of any major public transportation facility requirement. Also, the Mayor a showing the willingness to build a multi- million dollar subway system which projects that the economy of the town is stable.
With all these uncertainty in the given statement, the argument proved inadequate in convincing the points mentioned and the author need to focus more on exploring the depth the issue from various perspective before reaching to a conclusion.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 511 350
No. of Characters: 2512 1500
No. of Different Words: 232 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.755 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.916 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.853 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 89 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.895 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.006 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.566 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.075 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 103, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'workers'' or 'worker's'?
Suggestion: workers'; worker's
...town subway will help to accelerate the workers productivity that will directly improve...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 249, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n certain evidences and assumptions that found less convincing as a reader. Fi...
^^
Line 3, column 78, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...is notorious traffic congestion, but he didnt specified the factors like route on whi...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 211, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'appeared'.
Suggestion: appeared
...and day at which the jam is undoubtedly appear. There might be the possibility that th...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 388, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'way'?
Suggestion: way
...rmore, there could be a particular road ways on which the congestion is occurring f...
^^^^
Line 3, column 416, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...icular road ways on which the congestion is occurring frequently and instead of b...
^^
Line 3, column 691, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
...ed can be utilized to address the other economical issues of the town which is one of the ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 417, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...while traveling into such a conveyance. However this problem needs more clarification i...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 720, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hen it will help to work on the existing facility provided which will be less tim...
^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...rking on a new one from the scratch. Finally the author made an assumption which may...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 132, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'workers'' or 'worker's'?
Suggestion: workers'; worker's
...the creation of subway will improve the workers productivity and also improve the econo...
^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 10, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this uncertainty' or 'these uncertainties'?
Suggestion: this uncertainty; these uncertainties
...nomy of the town is stable. With all these uncertainty in the given statement, the argument pr...
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Line 12, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ctive before reaching to a conclusion.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, regarding, so, then, well, while, for example, for instance, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2577.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 510.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05294117647 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92822048382 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456862745098 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 800.1 705.55239521 113% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5465868242 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.631578947 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8421052632 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.26315789474 5.70786347227 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.136024018576 0.218282227539 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0450714298809 0.0743258471296 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0594795931064 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0732003309694 0.128457276422 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0448512311572 0.0628817314937 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => 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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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.