A resident of Coburn sent the following letter to the editor:
"I strongly object to the proposed placement of walking trails in Coburn. Although the
trails will use land that belongs to the railroads, it is land that adjoining neighbors are
accustomed to using for their own purposes. In addition, it is clear that people bent on
nefarious purposes such as robbery will be able to use the trails to access the houses
that back onto that land. Walking trails that steal land and protect criminals have no
place in Coburn."
Critique the reasoning used in the argument presented above by examining
assumptions, assessing evidence, or suggesting ways to make the argument stronger or
easier to evaluate
The criticism cited by the citizen is based on flawed and based on a number of assumptions they are:
Firstly, the author of the letter claims walking trails will use the land that belongs to the rail road but it does not explain how the land will be used. Is the walking trains built alongside the rail road? or it built on the top of the rail road? And also it does not explain how the safety of the citizens is accounted for when they use the rail roads for walking trails. What is the frequency of trains visit on the track? Will the roads be blocked when the trains are incoming? If the author had mentioned all of these cases then it would have made a great case than the merits and demerits can be evaluated clearly.
Secondly, the author mentions although the walking trails will use land that belongs to the railroads, its the land that adjoining neighbours are accustomed to using for their own purposes but fails to mention what are the activities that are carried out on the adjoining neighbours on the land. Can't the work performed by the adjoining neighbouring get shifted to another place? What are the implications of the if the work get shifted to another place? If the author mentions the reason and the type of activity performed then it would further make easier to evaluate the argument.
Thirdly, the author mentions nefarious activity is currently carried out in area of rail roads and the development of walking trails will create easy access to the houses that back onto the land but fails to add any statistics to it. What is the current crime rate in the area? If high is the arrangement of police in the area? Can't the current security be more advanced and make it tighter to protect the houses from burglary.
If the following questions are answered, it will further strengthen the topic.
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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: 16 15
No. of Words: 327 350
No. of Characters: 1467 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.252 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.486 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.351 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 96 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 71 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 44 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.438 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.175 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.313 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.577 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.109 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 209, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
...g trains built alongside the rail road? or it built on the top of the rail road? A...
^^
Line 9, column 104, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...use land that belongs to the railroads, its the land that adjoining neighbours are ...
^^^
Line 9, column 297, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: Can't; Cannot
...n the adjoining neighbours on the land. Cant the work performed by the adjoining nei...
^^^^
Line 9, column 489, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...place? If the author mentions the reason and the type of activity performed then ...
^^
Line 13, column 329, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: Can't; Cannot
... the arrangement of police in the area? Cant the current security be more advanced a...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1513.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 325.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.65538461538 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38655801765 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.452307692308 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 450.9 705.55239521 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.7611103274 57.8364921388 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.5625 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3125 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5625 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200418520111 0.218282227539 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0526297467764 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0829929137387 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.092862344503 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0641064882692 0.0628817314937 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 48.3550499002 141% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 12.5979740519 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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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.