Mayor Switzer has been the mayor of Auburn for the last year and a half. In the last year, crime rates have gone up, unemployment has increased and many businesses have moved out of town. Voting mayor Switzer out will help solve Switzerâs crime problem, will help create jobs and will prevent businesses from having to move. How would you rate the accuracy of the above statement? Support your position with reasons and examples.
In this argument the author establishes an unfound correlation between Mayor Switzer and crime rates, unemployement and exodus of various businesses. Author's reasoning for the conclusion is seriously weak and lacks key considerations towards the claim. Unconvincing and suffering from various flaws, this argument is clearly insufficient to establish any judgement. Among various flaws present in this argument, three are the most important and could not be ignored.
First, the author fails to mention the evidence or data before ruling out a correlation between Mayor Switzer and crime rates and unemployement. It is not explicitly known or mentioned in the argument that how an individual could directly influence the crime rates or unemployement. For example, a criminal is directly correlated with crime and if there are numerous criminals roaming around in the city, the crime rate is likely to increase. On similar lines, author nowhere mentions how the two entities under consideration are related with each other.
Second, the argument does not contain any data points or factual information about the crime rates, unemployement or moving out of business. What was the crime rate 5 years earlier and how does the year on year trend look like. Whether the increasing crime rate and rise in unemployement an expected change as per the trends available or are these situations influenced by any phenomenan. Answer to such questions clearly remain missing in the argument, hence decreases our faith in the arguments conclusion.
Third, the argument does not contain any alternative factors resposible for mentioned cases. For example, a rise in crime rate could be due to a recent big scale event organized in the city, where city is host to thousands of tourists and criminals have various oppurtunities to steal from these tourists, resulting in increased crime rate. On similar lines, increase in unemployement could be due to international market conditions, where almost all of the companies are struggling to keep up there employee base. Author fails to mention such scenarios in his reasoning.
The argument could have been strengthened if the author would have mentioned the above three key considerations in the purview of the topic discussed. Data points and factual information are almost always neccessary before making any claims or conclusions.
In conclusion, the argument present is weak and lacks required strength to be conidered as true. It requires a lot of unfounded assumptions and causal connections. To strengthen the argument the author must explore and identify factors which further our faith in the conclusion.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 415 350
No. of Characters: 2187 1500
No. of Different Words: 207 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.513 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.27 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.908 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 159 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 95 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.762 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.157 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.429 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.312 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.049 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 488, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
...ument, hence decreases our faith in the arguments conclusion. Third, the argument does...
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Line 7, column 448, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ational market conditions, where almost all of the companies are struggling to keep up the...
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Line 9, column 57, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had mentioned'?
Suggestion: had mentioned
...ld have been strengthened if the author would have mentioned the above three key considerations in t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, if, look, may, second, so, then, third, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 11.1786427146 197% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2244.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 415.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40722891566 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9824804161 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50843373494 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 687.6 705.55239521 97% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.9800570932 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.857142857 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7619047619 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.80952380952 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.21461343288 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0600192511232 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0703146785141 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102390866737 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0600258339007 0.0628817314937 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 98.500998004 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.