Several charitable organizations in Pleasantville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined.
The Pleasantville School Board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of community service. Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. For this reason, the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In this prompt presented, the author avers that, engaging the high school students in the community service would provide much needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help them to understand the importance of giving back to community. The author thus has come to conclusion: Pleasantville School Board should institiute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.
Here, at first glance the argument may look logical and plausible. However, going to thorough and careful study, the argument prove to be flawed for the numerous reasons which the author has overlooked.
Firstly, the author here uses the word like "several" , Recent Years", which seems to be confusing and even misleading. The author mentions that several organizations in the pleasantaville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. What does several refer here? It may be many, some or half of the organization, only two or three and whole. Thus, the word seems to be confusing and may lead to wrong information. Likewise the author also has mentioned that in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined. Here no exact date and time is provided which also lead to misinterpretation. As for instance the decline may have been two years ago , three years ago or else time, thus subsequently leading to the confusion. The argument would have been stronger had it provided the exact information and expressed the clarity of the terms and words used in the argument.
Secondly, The author here stated that the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined in the recent years. Here, The author has not provided the concrete reasons behind the decline in the number of teenage volunteers. The decline may be due to the lack of interest among the teenagers or the organization in the recent years has carried out more interesting and absorbing programmes . Also, other organizations besides Pleasantville started providing much more fascinating and effective programmes which attracted the teenagers there. Thus, these may be the reason in declining the teenager volunteers. If this scenario has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly threatened.
Likewise, The argument states that Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of the community. What about teenagers? The author fails to take the view or opinion of the teenagers. The case may be exactly the opposite that they might not agree to the fact and thus if it comes true then the argument doesn't hold water.
In conclusion, the argument, as stands now, is considerably flawed due to reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to mentioned the above points then the argument may be more convincing.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 465 350
No. of Characters: 2381 1500
No. of Different Words: 218 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.644 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.12 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.828 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.904 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.76 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.306 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 64, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...e uses the word like 'several' , Recent Years', which seems to be c...
^^
Line 3, column 454, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Likewise,
...sing and may lead to wrong information. Likewise the author also has mentioned that in r...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 695, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s for instance the decline may have been two years ago , three years ago or else ...
^^
Line 3, column 710, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...the decline may have been two years ago , three years ago or else time, thus subs...
^^
Line 4, column 394, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ore interesting and absorbing programmes . Also, other organizations besides Pleas...
^^
Line 5, column 367, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...thus if it comes true then the argument doesnt hold water. In conclusion, the argumen...
^^^^^^
Line 6, column 119, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...nce on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to mentioned the abo...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, firstly, however, if, likewise, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, as for, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2460.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 464.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30172413793 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01909729627 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 204.123752495 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495689655172 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 762.3 705.55239521 108% => 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: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.0509706078 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.56 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.36 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.32637869055 0.218282227539 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0912881096751 0.0743258471296 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0970961638772 0.0701772020484 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136778580178 0.128457276422 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.116845621776 0.0628817314937 186% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => 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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