The following is a petition to the city council of Centerville:
"Over the past three years, there has been a marked increase in cases of 'sidewalk rage,' similar to the irrational anger drivers experience on the road, but instead among sidewalk walkers. The result is an increase in assaults, property damage, and disruptions of normal pedestrian traffic. In order to address this growing problem, the council must ban cell phone use on sidewalks. Not only do people texting or using their phones slow down pedestrian traffic, but they are also more likely to walk into the road or bump into other walkers. Children are especially vulnerable because they are too short to be easily seen. Middletown passed such a ban and not only have they heard no complaints, but the reported incidents of sidewalk crime has gone down significantly."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
Banning cell phones on sidewalks will not be beneficial to the cause for numerous reaons. There is not enough evidence supporting this clame and without such evidence a cell phone ban is an extreme that should not be resorted to.
Just because banning cell phones in Middletown worked does not mean it will work in Centerville. There could be many circumstances that may make a cell phone ban beneficial in Middletown and ineffective in Centerville. Such circumstances could be the population or the size of the sidewalks. If a younger population exists in Middletown, that may lead to a successful cell phone ban since young people tend to be glued to their phones more than older peaople, which leads to distraction. Also, if the roads are smaller in Middletown, then a cell phone ban could work since there is less room for people. The scenarios above leads to the fact that there is not enough data and evidence backing the claim that a cell phone ban will be beneficial in Centerville similarily to Middletown.
A cell phone ban will not be the fix for sidewalk rage. It is in human nature to be distracted. Many people find distractions while walking such as wildlife or seeing a friend which may cause them to bump into others. Assuming that a cell phone ban will bring an end to such problem is naive. There are so many distractions in daily life that can cause someone to lose focus easily. A cell phone ban may be somewhat beneficial in the instances where cell phone distraction was the cause of the bump-in. There maybe many times where a cell phone was not the cause of the incident and there is just not enough evidence to support the claim that a cell phone ban will be a fix to the side walk rage. Some options outside of a cell phone ban could be limiting running on sidewalks or making lines on the sidewalk to make sure people avoid bumping into oneanother.
Banning cell phones may be effective in some sidewalk rage incidents. More evidence is needed to support that claim. There are other options that should be looked into prior to resorting to such an extreme.
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- The following is a petition to the city council of Centerville Over the past three years there has been a marked increase in cases of sidewalk rage similar to the irrational anger drivers experience on the road but instead among sidewalk walkers The resul 58
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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: 370 350
No. of Characters: 1689 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.386 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.565 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.489 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 95 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 71 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.474 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.592 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.368 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.368 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.527 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, look, may, so, then, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1724.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 370.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.65945945946 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57037684151 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.418918918919 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 545.4 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.4365053645 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.7368421053 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4736842105 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.36842105263 5.70786347227 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0426065314888 0.218282227539 20% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0219695268077 0.0743258471296 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0357233984988 0.0701772020484 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0375556590078 0.128457276422 29% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0167811634015 0.0628817314937 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 12.5979740519 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.31 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 98.500998004 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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