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.
The writer of the petition has raised some interesting points in stating what the city council of Centerville must do to solve the problem of sidewalk rage. However, in arriving at a conclusion, there has been some assumptions that one needs to properly analyse, or for which certain valid evidences must be provided.
For one, the author noted that there has been increase in assaults, damage and traffic disruptions for pedestrians due to the activities of sidewalk walkers. The author, in proposing a solution, also stated that there must be a ban on cell phone use on these sidewalks to mitigate these problems. However, what was not stated, at least with evidence, is that cell phone use among pedestrians is the only cause of these problems. For all we know, Centerville could be a city with endemic rascality. If such is the case, one would see that the societal ills could be as a result of the presence of rogues whom the city have been unable to unravel or apprehend. Perhaps there is a problem of adequate policing in the city of Centerville which has led to assaults and increase in crime rate among sidewalk walkers.
Further, it may be true that some of the problems among sidewalk walkers are caused by people texting or chatting on their mobile phones while walking on the sidewalks. However, the author needs to also view the problem from the design of the average sidewalk of the city of Centerville. If for instance, the sidewalk in the city are tiny lanes that can only accommodate few people at once, then the issue of people bumping into each other could arise. Also, one is not certain that the government of Centerville has provided enough public buses or cars for the citizens of Centerville. This is because more people are likely to resort to trekking on the sidewalks when they realize that the city does not possess adequate transportation means to cater to their needs, which could overburden the sidewalks.
The author made a bold statement and perhaps arrived at a hasty conclusion in saying that the city of Centerville could solve the sidewalk problems by emulating Middletown. The fact that Middletown passed a ban on the use of cellphones on sidewalk is not enough reason for Centerville to believe they will receive no complaints. What if the officers who are supposed to report incidences on sidewalks in Middletown slowed down the pace of reporting to make it seem that the ban had been successful?
In addition, the author needs to find out what other areas Middletown is doing well in attending to safety and security of their people in comparison to Centerville. Probably, Middletown is experiencing less crime on their sidewalks due to an improvement in policing of the state. Middletown could also have invested in other adequate transportation means for their citizens. Also, for a city like Middletown who could have larger sidewalks than Centerville, perhaps bicycles have been made cheaper for the average Middletown resident to use on the sidewalk to easy the flow of traffic and reduction in crime rate.
In conclusion, the petition made to the city council of Centerville would hold more ground if certain assumptions are substantiated with viable claims. The petitioner would need to provide stronger and more convincing evidence to show that Centerville would obtain a lasting solution to the societal ills currently experienced in the city's sidewalk.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-29 | Chayank_11 | 50 | view |
| 2020-01-15 | HANZALA13 | 16 | view |
| 2019-11-28 | zzk81 | 69 | view |
| 2019-11-26 | somba | 50 | view |
| 2019-11-24 | Venkateshwar | 63 | view |
- The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of the Juniper Café, a small, local coffee shop in the downtown area of a small American city: “We must reduce overhead here at the café. Instead of opening at 6 a.m. weekdays, we will now open at 75
- Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs.Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether or not you agree or disagree. Be 83
- Undergraduate students majoring in Business or in the Sciences should not be required to take any courses in the Humanities since those courses won’t benefit their future careers.Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether or not you agr 66
- Paleo diets, in which one eats how early hominids (human ancestors) did, are becoming increasingly popular. Proponents claim our bodies evolved to eat these types of food, especially bone broth, a soup made by cooking animal bones for several hours. They 75
- The city of Winston has two large department stores: Namen and Roscoe. Namen is known for its high-end designer fashions, while Roscoe is known for more affordable fashion options. Both Namen and Roscoe are each considering opening another store in the gr 82
Comments
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: 22 15
No. of Words: 571 350
No. of Characters: 2785 1500
No. of Different Words: 238 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.888 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.877 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.689 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 152 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 114 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.955 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.357 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.564 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 30, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...kers. Further, it may be true that some of the problems among sidewalk walkers are cau...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, then, well, while, at least, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 91.0 55.5748502994 164% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2859.0 2260.96107784 126% => OK
No of words: 571.0 441.139720559 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00700525394 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88831323574 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77303001566 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437828371278 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 907.2 705.55239521 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.502462274 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.954545455 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9545454545 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
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: 0.140322908688 0.218282227539 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0491005280108 0.0743258471296 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0313920413125 0.0701772020484 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0820774564419 0.128457276422 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0185475352782 0.0628817314937 29% => 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: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 98.500998004 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
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.