People residing near the Mason River have been long complaining about the quality and smell of the river’s water. In response to the complaint, state has decided to clean the river and it is suggested that the city government provide more funding to the recreational activities near the Mason River as it is assumed that cleaning of the river would lead to increase in water sports in the river. However, there are a few questions that need to be addressed before concluding if the city government should actually allocate more budget to these activities near the Mason River.
First of all, is the sample of the survey even the true representation of the population residing near the Mason River? According to the survey results, water sports is the favourite sport of Mason City residents, but what if this survey was conducted for only a certain group of people associated with the water activities on a regular basis. Or it could also be the case that the survey was conducted at some other waterbody and not the Mason River and they actually enjoy the water sport there. If any of the above are true, then there is a fair chance that the survey presents skewed results.
Secondly, an argument is presented saying that even though, the Mason City residents have ranked the water sports as their favourite recreational activity, however, Mason River is rarely used for such activities. This maybe the case because the security near the Mason River is not up to the mark for the residents to feel safe for the water sports. There is an alternative, that the residents might prefer to travel to some other water body for a getaway, as this would ensure a long drive as well as recreational activity which would help in complete rejuvenation.
In conclusion, the city government must carefully assess the above two points in order to ensure that the cleaning of the river would definitely promote the water sports in the Mason River and then decide if they must increase their budget on such leisure activities.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 346 350
No. of Characters: 1639 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.313 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.737 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.452 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 69 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.455 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.783 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.469 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.469 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.164 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, in conclusion, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1671.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 346.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82947976879 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53916661567 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.456647398844 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 538.2 705.55239521 76% => 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: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.7248512032 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.909090909 119.503703932 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.4545454545 23.324526521 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8181818182 5.70786347227 190% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.39393068543 0.218282227539 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.167125772662 0.0743258471296 225% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0834358524876 0.0701772020484 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.251544567541 0.128457276422 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0533513593044 0.0628817314937 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.3550499002 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.33 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => 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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