Seven years ago, homeowners in nearby Brookville community adopted a set of restrictions on how the community's yards should be landscaped and what colors the exteriors of homes should be painted. Since then, average property values have tripled in Brookville. In order to raise property values in Deerhaven Acres, we should adopt our own set of restrictions on landscaping and house painting.
The argument is totally flawed because it most thoughtlessly assumes that a surge in property values is because of some restrictions on landscaping and house painting. This is rather a naive or a simplistic assumption as it is based only on consideration of a single factor, while totally ignoring the rest. Let us consider the facts in closer detail and identify the various other factors.
Firstly, the author is stating that homeowners living nearby the Brookville community adopted a set of restrictions. About seven years ago, these homeowners decided to follow some restrictions on how their community's yards should be landscaped and also the exterior colors for their homes. The author is saying about the change that had been followed by some people about seven years ago. One cannot guarantee that after seven years, the change will be the same. Many people say that 'Change is the new constant'.
Secondly, the author continued that the average values have tripled in Brookville. There is no such evidence why the average values of homes in Brookville have tripled now. The statement seems to be blatantly made without scrutinizing. The average values of the homes may have tripled because of various factors. It may have increased because of the surge in population or the development of companies. Industrialization also maybe one of the reasons for ballooned average values of homes. Or, many people may be considered Brookville a better place for living. There may be such a myriad number of reasons that the author has not clearly stated.
Another understated assumption the argument makes is that the Deerhaven Acres's committee is planning to adopt their own set of restrictions on landscaping and house painting to raise their property values. The author provides no specific evidence to bolster the plan of adopting the same restrictions. There is no proof that Brookville's property values have ballooned because they restricted the decisions on the landscaping and the exterior colors of their homes. The argument put forth is placed on the premice of adaptation of the same set of restrictions that is incomplete and fallacious.
In a nutshell, then, a proper evaluation of the tripled values in Brookville and to adopt the same restrictions by Deerhaven to increase their property values requires more information and pieces of evidence. The above argument makes unwarranted assumptions that seriously undermine its validity.
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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: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 392 350
No. of Characters: 2022 1500
No. of Different Words: 182 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.45 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.158 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.876 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 157 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.818 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.919 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.297 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.524 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ons that is incomplete and fallacious. In a nutshell, then, a proper evaluation...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, while
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 : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2065.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 392.0 441.139720559 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26785714286 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91757227467 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47193877551 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 651.6 705.55239521 92% => 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: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.9347782627 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.8636363636 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8181818182 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.90909090909 5.70786347227 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.402409169173 0.218282227539 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0991954218217 0.0743258471296 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0887669636681 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182386624792 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0903191724963 0.0628817314937 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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