The following was written as part of a study weighing the benefits of a new construction project in the city of Winterville.
Car racing is extremely popular in the city of Winterville: over 20,000 Winterville residents attended the state’s annual 500-lap race last summer, and the highest-rated television program in Winterville is “Race Talk,” which is broadcast every night. Also, many successful race-car drivers live in Winterville. However, the nearest racetrack is over 150 miles away from Winterville. Given the popularity of car racing in Winterville, and a recent report indicating that the average race fan spends close to $500 per year attending car races, a new racetrack in Winterville would be very profitable.
The following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. Primarily, the argument is based on the unwarranted assumption that car racing is extremely popular in the city of Winterville, rendering its main conclusion that, construction of a racetrack in Winterville would be very profitable, invalid.
The argument fails to provide any justification that over 20,000 Winterville residents attended annual race last summer as such car racing is extremely popular. The argument never gives information about the city population. 20,000 residents could either be average, far above average or far below average of the city’s population; the argument never tells.
The argument also leaves many unanswered questions. Many successful race-car drivers live in Winterville. The argument could do something as simple yet effective as providing information through consultation of the town Librarian to review published study to show whether a parallel exist between large number of successful race-car residents in Winterville and interest of other residents in car racing.
Finally, the argument claims without warrant that new racetrack in Winterville would be very profitable since average race fan spends close to $500 per year to attend car race. Here again, research is a vital ally: Will the residents pay $500 per year to attend same event even if the racetrack is built in Winterville? Is the event going to be a commonplace after the construction hence lack of interest? Answering question like these may help to clarify if the racetrack will be profitable after the construction or not.
Because the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to make a convincing case that car racing is extremely popular in the city of Winterville hence a new racetrack in Winterville would be very profitable.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 281 350
No. of Characters: 1499 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.094 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.335 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.954 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 112 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.881 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.411 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.654 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.17 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, hence, if, may, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 28.8173652695 28% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1540.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 281.0 441.139720559 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48042704626 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0408164627 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544483985765 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.2913288907 57.8364921388 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.461538462 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6153846154 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.69230769231 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340753649735 0.218282227539 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119272389625 0.0743258471296 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0985648553338 0.0701772020484 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205236940082 0.128457276422 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0572833013278 0.0628817314937 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.5979740519 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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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