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.
This argument focuses on a state plan to clean up Mason River, after residents has complained about the quality of its water. It supports the need for the city governement to increase the part of the budget devoted to mainting the quality of riverside recreational facilities, as the cleaning of the river would push Mason city residents to practise water sports more often in the river and as only little of the budget is now devoted to the recreational facilities. This possibility of an increase of the use of the river for water sports could be explained by the taste of Mason City residents for water sports : it is ranked among their favorite activites according to surveys.
Firstly, this argument depends on the stated argument that people responding to the surveys are representative of Mason City residents. However, if the surveys was given to people from rich background, a caracteristic correlated to the practice of water sports, it would introduce a bias. Moreover, if water sports are popular among residents in terms of ranking, it could not so popular in terms of people practising it : it could be the third more practised activities, only because other activities are marginally practised. Additionally, the arguments depends also on the fact that peope complaining about the quality of the river's water are representative of citizens, which could not be the case.
Secondly, this argument depends on the unstated argument that Mason City residents don't use the Mason River flowing because of the river's water quality. Thus, if the water was to be cleaned, more people would use the river for water sports. However, we can imagine that they don't use this water because they don't have the time to practise these activities, or because these activities are too expensive for them compared to the other recreational activities they have ranked in the surveys. Indeed, stating that an activity is great does not imply neceserly that one regularly practices it.
Moreover, it could also be the case because of the little budget allocated to the riverside recreational facilities, or because Mason city is loccated near the sea and residents prefer practising water sports there. If these assumptions prove unwarranted, one could distinguish differents consequences on the argument. If only some people were practising water sports, we could observe an increase of water sport practising, and the money spent by the governement would be only marginally useful. If water sports were popular but not practised in the river because of the lack of facilities, the money will be useful.
Lastly, if people were not practising in the river for other reasons than the quality of water, it would be completely useless.
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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: 16 15
No. of Words: 449 350
No. of Characters: 2232 1500
No. of Different Words: 169 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.603 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.971 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.718 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 150 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.062 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.244 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.408 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.6 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.15 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1468, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ated argument that Mason City residents dont use the Mason River flowing because of ...
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Line 1, column 1660, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...orts. However, we can imagine that they dont use this water because they dont have t...
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Line 1, column 1693, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...t they dont use this water because they dont have the time to practise these activit...
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Line 1, column 2473, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...nement would be only marginally useful. If water sports were popular but not pract...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, third, thus, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
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: 2273.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 446.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09641255605 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80089637933 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.40134529148 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 740.7 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.4269332443 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.0625 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.875 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 5.70786347227 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 5.15768463074 19% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.343452967079 0.218282227539 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128325403397 0.0743258471296 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104426778296 0.0701772020484 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.343452967079 0.128457276422 267% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0628817314937 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.3550499002 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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