The following recommendation appeared in a memo from the mayor of the town of Hopewell.
"Two years ago, the nearby town of Ocean View built a new municipal golf course and resort hotel. During the past two years, tourism in Ocean View has increased, new businesses have opened there, and Ocean View's tax revenues have risen by 30 percent. Therefore, the best way to improve Hopewell's economy—and generate additional tax revenues—is to build a golf course and resort hotel similar to those in Ocean View."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The argument concludes that the town should build golf course and resort hotel alike to Ocean View. To justify this conclusion the mayor claims that to improve economy of Hopewell is by generating more tax revenues which requires building golf courses and resort hotel alike to Ocean view. The argument assumes that it is the best way to do so. The argument also assumes that the Tourism has increased in the Ocean View due to new golf course and resort hotel. the argument claims that as the Ocean View build new golf course and resort hotel the tax revenues has increased by thirty percent. The basis of the argument is false and requires more detailed survey and proper reasoning and hence lacks credibility.
Firstly, the argument assumes that the building of golf course and resort hotel is the best way to improve the towns economy. What if even after doing so the economy does not boost up? The mayor assumes that there is increase in tax revenues by Ocean View due to the building of new golf course and resort hotel which have increased attraction of tourists. What if there were other reasons besides above that have led to increased number of tourists in the Ocean View. They might have added Casinos, variety of food options, and many others. Perhaps there are many other package options that the Ocean View is providing to the tourists which has led to be more attractive to them. So a proper survey is required for these.
Secondly, the argument relates the increase in the tourism in the last two years in Ocean View. The argument has not observed the data of earlier time. The Ocean View might have very high tourism in past years and had an sudden downfall due to some reasons, may be like safety, food, etc., two year back and this is not the best period that the Ocean view is having. So a detailed survey is to be done and data relating to the tax revenues in the past years have to be examined to before taking the action.
Finally, the argument assumes that building new golf course and resort hotel will ensure high tax revenues. But it may not be the case. More number of resort and golf course in the town does not ensure that there will be more tourism in the town. The tourism might not increase even after doing so.
Hence, the argument fails to address all the factors required to ensure that the economics of town Hopewell and hence seems spurious. While the argument highlight a possibility, more detailed information is required to ensure the action.
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Essay evaluation 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: 22 15
No. of Words: 441 350
No. of Characters: 2003 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.583 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.542 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.121 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 16 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.045 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.911 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.682 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.35 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.391 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.086 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 323, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n view. The argument assumes that it is the best way to do so. The argument also...
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Line 1, column 464, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...ue to new golf course and resort hotel. the argument claims that as the Ocean View ...
^^^
Line 2, column 113, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'towns'' or 'town's'?
Suggestion: towns'; town's
...rt hotel is the best way to improve the towns economy. What if even after doing so th...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 218, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...very high tourism in past years and had an sudden downfall due to some reasons, ma...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2048.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 441.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.64399092971 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.17789327836 2.78398813304 78% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.365079365079 0.468620217663 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 644.4 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.2457068973 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0434782609 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1739130435 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.08695652174 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => 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: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.325029902924 0.218282227539 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10928246796 0.0743258471296 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107692305735 0.0701772020484 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189092819249 0.128457276422 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0876095800521 0.0628817314937 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 14.3799401198 70% => 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: 9.63 12.5979740519 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.83 8.32208582834 82% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => 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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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.