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."
There has been a marked increase in the cases of sidewalk rage in the city of Centerville. In order to address this problem, the argument states that cell phone usage should be banned on sidewalks. This argument is flawed as it does not takes into consideration the difference in the attitude and geographical differences between two cities. Moreover, there are a lot of multimedia devices nowadays that are similar to a cell phone. Hence, only banning a cellphone might not be the best solution.
Firstly, the attitude of the people in Middletown and Centerville are assumed to be the same. On enacting the ban, the people of Middletown chose to follow it and this gave them a working solution to the sidewalk rage problem. The people of Centerville might not take the rule in the same way. They could react violently, protest and this could inturn increase the rage problem even more. Hence, some account of how people behaved towards new laws involving technology ban in Centerville could help to see if such an action could solve the sidewalk rage problem.
Secondly, cell phones are only small subset of multimedia devices today. There are tablets, ipods, mini-computers that perform the same task as cell phones. The walkers could be still using those devices after the ban on cell phones. The argument has assumed that cell phones are the only major devices that are used in sidewalks in Centerville which is false. There should be a thorough analysis of devices used by sidewalkers and a blanket ban on all those devices could help in reducing sidewalk rage.
Thirdly, it is assumed that texting is the main cause of sidewalk rage. People also listen to podcast, attend online meetings when walking. Texting is one of the activities performed while walking. There assumed causation that texting leads to increased rage. Other activities such as listening to stimulating podcasts, news could also lead to increased rage among walkers. Therefore, understanding the content consumed by users and their behavioural implication are necessary. Banning such content could help keep a calm emotional state for the walkers.
In conclusion, understanding the attitude of people in Centerville, analysing cell phone usage and similar multimedia devices during walking and understanding the variety of content and activities that walkers engage during walking could help in strengthening the argument that ban on cell phone can decrease sidewalk rage crimes in Centerville.
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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: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 400 350
No. of Characters: 2027 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.472 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.068 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.676 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.391 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.692 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.565 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.295 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.51 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.086 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 238, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'take'
Suggestion: take
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, third, thirdly, while, in conclusion, such as, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2082.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 400.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.205 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75186754768 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 663.3 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.1284206818 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.5217391304 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3913043478 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5652173913 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.169417245932 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0590391374582 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.083592152575 0.0701772020484 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0987263032475 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0190420107785 0.0628817314937 30% => 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: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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