"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
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.
While the argument may seem tenable at first glance, the conclusion made by Central Plaza store owners relies on certain assumptions for which there is no clear evidence. The argument that by prohibiting skateboarding in central plaza will lead to a boost in business as previously high level since is not entirely cogently convincing as it condones crucial assumptions which would make the conclusion more propitious and result in rosy outcome.
Firstly, the argument assumes that the increase in amount of litter and vandalism throughout plaza is due to increasing number of skateboard users. There is no direct co relation to prove so. There is a possibility that the cause of this malign environment is something else like the street dogs or normal customers could be littering the plaza and the vandalism is engendered by robbers or petty thieves. the argument could have been strengthened if it provided a direct connection between the skateboarders and the problem.
secondly, the argument relies on assumption that a number of their shoppers have converted into skateboarders. However this is not certainly true. the increase in number of skateboarders does not imperatively imply that the customers got influenced by skateboarding so they averted from shopping from stores. This decline in the number of customers could be due to myriad reasons like weather condition was not favorable for people to go for shopping, lack in interest of customers or drifting of the crowd to newly opened shopping complex nearby. This hole in argument could have been plugged if it provided any relevant reasons as stated above.
Thirdly, the argument underpins its conclusion on the assumption that prohibiting skateboarding in the plaza would be providential in bringing them back to business as all of the skateboarders would be compelled to return back to visiting their shops. there is no certainty that these skateboarders which they presume are their old customers would actually stop skateboarding . there is possibility that they will start skateboarding elsewhere and their business will still see no sunshine. the argument could be strengthened if it mentioned skateboarding would be banned in the entire city.
As a result, sufficient evidences as mentioned above manifest that the argument is not completely sound. The evidence to corroborate the conclusion that there will be augmentation in business of central plaza store owners if skateboarding is prohibited is central plaza , does little to do so and it could be bolstered and reliable if it incorporated the assumptions raised.
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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: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 410 350
No. of Characters: 2150 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.5 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.244 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.036 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 103 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.538 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.207 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.846 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.631 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.104 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Suggestion:
...een the skateboarders and the problem. secondly, the argument relies on assumpt...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
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Suggestion: Secondly
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Suggestion: However,
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, while, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2190.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 410.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34146341463 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07134276582 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478048780488 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 675.9 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => 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: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.3927676137 57.8364921388 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.823529412 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1176470588 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64705882353 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24383822718 0.218282227539 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0789452082371 0.0743258471296 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0661721816067 0.0701772020484 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145302809738 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0274058737943 0.0628817314937 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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