The author suggests that building a multi-million dollar subway system will improve the economy of Briggsville by increasing worker productivity and providing an alternative method of public transportation for the currently flawed bus system. The evidence presented is that the subway will run twenty-four hours a day through the major downtown areas and motorists will spend less time in traffic. There are many flaws with this argument; therefore, I will examine the assumptions, explain how the argument depends on these assumptions, and explain what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarrented.
Firstly, the unstated assumption is that this new method of transportation will solve the inconsistency of the current public transportation method. This assumes that the same kind of issues that cause inconsistent buses will not occur with the subways. This doesn't take in account that the subway drivers could call in sick, have an emergency, run behind schedule, or the subway system itself could be malfunctioning. If the subways in Briggsville end up being inconsistent at times just like the subways in New York, this will weaken the argument.
Secondly, the next unstated assumption is that the new method of transportation will be safer than the current system. It doesn't take into account that most crimes occur late at night and in the early hours of the morning. If residents end up complaining that the general lack of safety while riding the subways is worse than the current system, this too will weaken the author's argument.
Thirdly, the next stated assumption is that since motorists will spend less time in traffic, an increase in worker productivity that will boost the city's economy will be seen immediately. There is no way to say with confidence that this will improve worker productivity for sure. While the new method of transportation may provide another avenue for the people of the city to get to work, there is no specific evidence as to how motorist spending less time in traffic will help improve productivity. This weakens the argument even further.
In summary, there are many holes that exist in this argument. If the assumptions prove unwarrented, the city will end up wasting millions of dollars on a system that creates new problems I've presented in order to solve old problems.
- Governments should place few if any restrictions on scientific research and development Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take In develop 79
- Technology while apparently aimed to simplify our lives only makes our lives more complicated 50
- The following is a recommendation from the personal director to the president of Acme Publishing Company quot Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy read speed reading course has greatly improved productivity 62
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 260, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...s will not occur with the subways. This doesnt take in account that the subway drivers...
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Line 5, column 123, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ll be safer than the current system. It doesnt take into account that most crimes occu...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 372, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...urrent system, this too will weaken the authors argument. Thirdly, the next stated a...
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Line 9, column 188, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I've
...s on a system that creates new problems Ive presented in order to solve old problem...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, while, as to, in summary, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1979.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 381.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19422572178 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89798963211 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.482939632546 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 598.5 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => 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: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5275098956 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.6875 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8125 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.202628240983 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0735187489983 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0708910464346 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124202652008 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0633923397145 0.0628817314937 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 260, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...s will not occur with the subways. This doesnt take in account that the subway drivers...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 123, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ll be safer than the current system. It doesnt take into account that most crimes occu...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 372, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...urrent system, this too will weaken the authors argument. Thirdly, the next stated a...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 188, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I've
...s on a system that creates new problems Ive presented in order to solve old problem...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, while, as to, in summary, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1979.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 381.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19422572178 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89798963211 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.482939632546 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 598.5 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => 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: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5275098956 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.6875 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8125 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.202628240983 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0735187489983 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0708910464346 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124202652008 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0633923397145 0.0628817314937 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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.