In surveys, Mason City residents rank water sports (swimming, boating, and fishing) among their favorite recreational activities. The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits, however, and the city park department devotes little of its budget to maintaining riverside recreational facilities. For years there have been complaints from residents about the quality of the river’s water and the river’s smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason River. The use of the river for water sports is, therefore, sure to increase. The city government should for that reason devote more money in this year’s budget to riverside recreational facilities.
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
The argument is based on the survey. In the list of favorite recreational facilities, the residents of Mason City residents rank water sports like swimming, boating, fishing, etc. To date, Mason City is not used for sports and the city park department doesn’t devote much budget. Due to the complaints from the residents, the state announced the plans to clean up Mason River. Based on this evidence the author argued that the sports in the river will surely increase and also recommends that the city government should devote more money. Although the state announced plans to clean the river, the author is too quick to assume that recreational facilities will increase in the river; they failed to analyze the specific details of the plans, complaints, and residents’ choice of the river to confirm that the use of the river will surely increase for recreational facilities and to recommend that Park city government should allocate more budget.
The author assumed that residents ranked the water sports focusing on Mason River. This assumption, however, is unwarranted because he fails to analyze whether the Mason River is the choice of residents or not and the evidence that came from the incomplete analysis is incomplete so the argument is dubious. For instance, the residents may rank the water sports in another river; they may go out with family in another place. The author should read the survey more carefully before giving a conclusion and recommendation. The assumption made by the author is unwarranted so the argument is not valid.
Similarly, the author implied that complaints from the residents are for sports. But this assumption is too general because he failed to think that whether the residents complain for water sports or for heal causes. The evidence that came from the incomplete analysis is not absolute so the argument made by argument and recommendation is questionable. For instance, residents may complain because of health issues caused by the river’s dirt. The assumption made by the author is unwarranted so the argument is invalid.
In addition, they assumed that the complaint that came from residents is valid and 100% sure but this assumption is not concrete to conclude and recommend. Complaints may be from a specific group. They should not assume the complaints from the residents is reliable data. If the assumption is unwarranted the conclusion made by them is invalid.
Due to the unwarranted assumptions mentioned above, the validity of the given argument is questionable.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 273, 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.
...ts from the residents is reliable data. If the assumption is unwarranted the concl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, similarly, so, for instance, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2128.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 410.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19024390244 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80331239442 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.375609756098 0.468620217663 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 658.8 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => 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: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 77.4797171908 57.8364921388 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.333333333 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5238095238 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.28571428571 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275488229151 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0917142526288 0.0743258471296 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110546211542 0.0701772020484 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132951322048 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136220061561 0.0628817314937 217% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 273, 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.
...ts from the residents is reliable data. If the assumption is unwarranted the concl...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, similarly, so, for instance, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2128.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 410.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19024390244 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80331239442 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.375609756098 0.468620217663 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 658.8 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => 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: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 77.4797171908 57.8364921388 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.333333333 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5238095238 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.28571428571 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275488229151 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0917142526288 0.0743258471296 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110546211542 0.0701772020484 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132951322048 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136220061561 0.0628817314937 217% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.