"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. 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.
At first glance, the author's argument appears convincing, but further reflection reveals that there are unaddressed assumptions unaddressed. We need more facts about people's inclination towards recreational activities in the river, the author mentions of surveys are done but we don't know the sample size and demographics of these surveys.
Surveys done finds swimming, boating and fishing among favourite recreational activities of residents of mason city. But no references which clearly states that residents want these activities done in mason river. For these activities, alternative arrangements can be done like creating swimming pools, artificial lakes etc. Or even visiting some other tourism location where this can be done.
The author goes on mentioning that, there are complaints from residents about the river smell and water quality of the river. But did not mention the cause for smell and bad quality of water. This may be due to several reasons, One reason can be, there might be factories along the riverside which are making the river water polluted. Then, even if the river is cleaned there is no guarantee that it will remain that way.
Also, the author didn't mention the time required for cleaning activity, if that time is more than a year, then people's interest might change until the river is cleaned.
Moreover, the author mentions, the more money is going<span class="hiddenGrammarError" pre="is "></span> allocated for riverside recreational activities, but how much more money?. We don't know the least amount of money required to set-up basic infrastructure for recreational activities.
Therefore, to strengthen this argument we need more data, answers to assumptions made. Which will make the argument more correct and analytical.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 279 350
No. of Characters: 1444 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.087 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.176 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.796 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 92 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.929 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.819 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.35 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.649 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.165 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 22, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
At first glance, the authors argument appears convincing, but furthe...
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Line 1, column 280, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...hor mentions of surveys are done but we dont know the sample size and demographics o...
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Line 6, column 18, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...will remain that way. Also, the author didnt mention the time required for cleaning ...
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Line 8, column 204, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ctivities, but how much more money?. We dont know the least amount of money required...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 55.5748502994 41% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 273.0 441.139720559 62% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57875457875 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.37096258478 2.78398813304 121% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586080586081 0.468620217663 125% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 705.55239521 66% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.4493830668 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.533333333 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.73333333333 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.160442584724 0.218282227539 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.058817985354 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0647677346753 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0714913026263 0.128457276422 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0587352255121 0.0628817314937 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.5979740519 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => 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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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.