"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 Deer Haven Acres, we should adopt our own set of restrictions on landscaping and house painting."
The main assertion of the small piece of text is that restrictions should be implemented on landscaping and house painting to augment the average property value in Deer Haven. When Brookville implemented a set of restrictions, an increase in its average property value is noticed, based on which, a prediction is made that the hike up in the average value of the asset in Deer Haven takes place. However, before this recommendation can be properly evaluated, three questions must be answered properly.
First of all, Can the yard's landscape in Brookville be roughly comparable to the landscapes in Deer Haven? It is possible that Brookville is situated in the urban area, whereas Dear Haven may lie in the coastal region. Furthermore, the size of the yards in the places can be of various sizes as well as there may be significant differences in the price of land in two different areas. If the landscapes in Brookville and Deer Haven are not comparable then the argument doesn't hold water.
Secondly, Are the houses in Brookville and Deer Haven of a similar type? The author prematurely assumes that the architecture of the house in Deer Haven is similar to that of Brookville. However, this might not be the case. The Architecture of the House may depend on various factors such as climatic conditions, the density of the population, Market conditions, etc. If the above is true, then the conclusion drawn in the argument is significantly weakened.
Thirdly, Does the same color of the house necessarily make the house more attractive? It is possible that Brookville selected an attractive and catchy color so the house looks absolutely perfect, however, it may not be the case for Deer Haven. The color chosen for the house in Deer Haven may be dull, not catchy, which may not be able to influence the mind of the house buyer. If the above statement is correct, the conclusion drawn in the argument is undermined.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on unwarranted assumptions. If the author can properly answer the three questions and provide more evidence, then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the increase in the price of houses in Deer haven as mentioned in the argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 384 350
No. of Characters: 1830 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.427 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.766 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.794 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 113 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 96 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.588 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.506 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.824 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.364 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.589 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 470, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...en are not comparable then the argument doesnt hold water. Secondly, Are the houses ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, well, whereas, in conclusion, such as, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1883.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 383.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91644908616 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8889251011 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.446475195822 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 600.3 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.2262743359 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.611111111 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2777777778 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.38888888889 5.70786347227 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.193957080044 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0682070310367 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0629151157934 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115777940425 0.128457276422 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758986752998 0.0628817314937 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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