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 examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The mayor of Hopewell points out that building a golf course and resort hotel is the best way to escalate Hopewell’s economy and generate extra tax revenues. To buttress his recommendation, he cites the experience of the nearby town where a new golf course and resort hotel was built. The argument seems to be plausible at first glance, but it reveals several logical flaws, as they are based on some precarious assumptions.
To begin with, the mayor made an assumption that the increasing tourism in Ocean View in the past two years was solely attribute to the newly built golf course and resort hotel. However, it is entirely possible that the town has imposed other government policies to spur the flourish of tourism, such as reconstructing public attractions, improving sanitary conditions of the restaurants and the streets, etc. Without detailed investigation regarding the government policies enacted in the past two years, the assumption that the new golf course and resort hotel in Ocean View has stimulated the tourism industry can not be justified.
Secondly, the mayor tries to correlate a raise in tax revenues in Ocean View with the construction of a golf course and resort hotel. The mayor indicates that Ocean View’s tax revenues have boosted 30 percent in the past two years. However, 30 percent might seem to be a large increase, but it is entirely possible that the original tax revenues are very low and a 30 percent increase does not make any difference to the overall figure. Thus, unless the mayor presents detailed information regarding the tax revenues two years ago, his attempt to relate tax revenues’ increase with the new golf course and hotel is unreasonable.
Finally, the mayor also premises the situation of the two towns are similar in all respects and the policy which was executed in Ocean View can succeed in Hopewell as well. However, perhaps Hopewell is too small to build a large golf course and resort hotel, therefore, the recommendation to build such facilities is certainly impossible. Also, the construction of such facilities requires plenty of funds which may pose a great challenge to Hopewell’s financial budget. Thus, the assumption that Hopewell can copy the success in Ocean View is unwarranted.
In sum, the assumptions made by the mayor certainly undermine the credibility of the recommendation, which is to build a golf course and hotel, to boost the economy in Hopewell. To bolster his recommendation, more detailed investigations and information, such as government policies imposed in Ocean View in the past two years, tax revenues conditions, etc, should be provided.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 120, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'attributed'.
Suggestion: attributed
...n View in the past two years was solely attribute to the newly built golf course and reso...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'such as', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.294478527607 0.25644967241 115% => OK
Verbs: 0.139059304703 0.15541462614 89% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0858895705521 0.0836205057962 103% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0490797546012 0.0520304965353 94% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0163599182004 0.0272364105082 60% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0858895705521 0.125424944231 68% => OK
Participles: 0.0368098159509 0.0416121511921 88% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.99475293798 2.79052419416 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0327198364008 0.026700313972 123% => OK
Particles: 0.00204498977505 0.001811407834 113% => OK
Determiners: 0.110429447853 0.113004496875 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0122699386503 0.0255425247493 48% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0081799591002 0.0127820249294 64% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2655.0 2731.13054187 97% => OK
No of words: 430.0 446.07635468 96% => OK
Chars per words: 6.17441860465 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.57801047555 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.362790697674 0.378187486979 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.288372093023 0.287650121315 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.23023255814 0.208842608468 110% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.13488372093 0.135150697306 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99475293798 2.79052419416 107% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 207.018472906 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455813953488 0.469332199767 97% => OK
Word variations: 49.7704819097 52.1807786196 95% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.039408867 80% => OK
Sentence length: 26.875 23.2022227129 116% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4992283877 57.7814097925 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.9375 141.986410481 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.875 23.2022227129 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.724660767414 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 55.7122093023 51.9672348444 107% => OK
Elegance: 2.04 1.8405768891 111% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.627094708217 0.441005458295 142% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.157067521408 0.135418324435 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0852933202101 0.0829849096947 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.658113676569 0.58762219726 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.102431151218 0.147661913831 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.318272438706 0.193483328276 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.133464996165 0.0970749176394 137% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.493707663836 0.42659136922 116% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0613895632865 0.0774707102158 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.468003193001 0.312017818177 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0766067643468 0.0698173142475 110% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.33743842365 120% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.87684729064 44% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 6.46551724138 124% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 5.36822660099 37% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 14.657635468 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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