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.
In the petition of city council of Centerville, the author argues that there is increase in the sidewalk rage and suggests that the council must ban mobile phone usage because of that the sidewalkers slowndown or may collide with other sidewalkers.
This argument fails to mention several key factors, on the basis of which this could be evaluated. Nevertheless, the conclusion made by the argument is based on the unwarrented assumptions. Therefore, not convincing as it stands.
First of all, the author assumes that decrease in sidewalk rage in Middletown due to the ban of cell phone usage will also lead to ban in the Centercille. It cannot be same way as it happend in the middletown, there may be other singnificant factors involved that reduced singnificantly sidewalk crime. For example, people in Middletown followed proper sequence and order while travelling on the sidewalk.
Secondly, author assumed that only because of usage of the cell phone the crime has increased, but mentioned lot of property damaged in the petition, which should be properly evaluated why there is lot of assaults and property damages. These people should be properly watched and take critical action may solve the issue.
Futher, it also mentioned that using cell phone has slowed down walk and bump into other walkers, this explaination does not lead complete assault or crime, this can be done decreasing use of cell while walking and this does not explain increase in the rage or crime. It should be properly evaluated and may be with detailed evidence can ban usage of cell phones on sidewalks.
In conclusion, the author's argument is unpersuasive as it stands, to bolster it further the theory of ban on cell phone must be provided with detailed explanation.
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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: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 290 350
No. of Characters: 1432 1500
No. of Different Words: 141 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.127 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.938 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.654 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.167 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.171 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.917 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.36 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.638 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.058 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 10, column 15, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...l phones on sidewalks. In conclusion, the authors argument is unpersuasive as ...
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Line 10, column 21, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...es on sidewalks. In conclusion, the authors argument is unpersuasive as it stands, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1478.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 290.0 441.139720559 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09655172414 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77164168353 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.506896551724 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 463.5 705.55239521 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.1172011875 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.166666667 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1666666667 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0833333333 5.70786347227 177% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.20758483034 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0930139791962 0.218282227539 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0381561337449 0.0743258471296 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0634678803967 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0583868024935 0.128457276422 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0823396360969 0.0628817314937 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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