"A ten-year nationwide study of the effectiveness of wearing a helmet while bicycling indicates that ten years ago, approximately 35 percent of all bicyclists reported wearing helmets, whereas today that number is nearly 80 percent. Another study, however, suggests that during the same ten-year period, the number of bicycle-related accidents has increased 200 percent. These results demonstrate that bicyclists feel safer because they are wearing helmets, and they take more risks as a result. Thus, to reduce the number of serious injuries from bicycle accidents, the government should concentrate more on educating people about bicycle safety and less on encouraging or requiring bicyclists to wear helmets."
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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In the given nationwide study it is stated that the rate of the accidents can be mitigated by rendering the education as well as awareness to the public regarding the bicycle safety and dissuades the public from wearing the helmets. The author have come to this conclusion based on the certain assumptions. However, the author might be correct but there are several questions to be answer to call it perfect assertion and the unwarranted assertion put forward by the author need to be meticulously examined.
First of all, Is the wearing the helmet 1st way to protect the accident? In the other word the author had put forward the certain assertion that the wearing the helmet is the one of the pivotal factor that thwart the process of the accidents. Albeit, wearing the helmet is one of the saftest way to avert from the accidents there are other factor that may also render the accidents. The factors such as a reckless driving should be given a consideration. The helmet may plays a crucial role to prevent from the danger in the past but in the present scenario its not only a way to thwart ourselves from “The Swords of Damocles”. If this scenario is present the assertion put forward by the author is weakened.
Moreover, Is the data regarding the helmet rider percentage flawless? Author proclaimed that the percentage of helmet riders waxed over the period of the time by providing the information that there is significant increase in the percentage of the helmet riders over the period. However, the data provided by the various sources may be flawed the information may have significant erroneous mistakes. If any of this factors may holds true, the main argument asserted by the author holds no water .
On the other hand ,Is the rendering the awareness and educating the people is the best way to prevent the accidents? As the author maintained that the by providing the awareness among the people may help to control the accidents instead of using the helmets. However, if the people are not content with the education provided by the government officials and they are adamant in their thoughts and as well as demeanor the rate of accidents cannot be plummeted . The ambiance well be full of chaos as well as havoc the accidents rate will be increase in the rapid way . If any of these holds true,the argument asserted by author holds no true.
In the conclusion, the argument as it stands now is considerably flawed predicated on flawed assumptions.If the author is able to answer the three questions above and offer more evidence(in form of systematic research study ) then it is possible to strengthen .
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 450 350
No. of Characters: 2131 1500
No. of Different Words: 182 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.606 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.736 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.583 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 159 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.684 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.905 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.842 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.45 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 341, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'factors'?
Suggestion: factors
...vert from the accidents there are other factor that may also render the accidents. The...
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Line 2, column 629, 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.
...urselves from “The Swords of Damocles”. If this scenario is present the assertion ...
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Line 3, column 495, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...nt asserted by the author holds no water . On the other hand ,Is the rendering t...
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Line 4, column 19, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...hor holds no water . On the other hand ,Is the rendering the awareness and educa...
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Line 4, column 118, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
... the best way to prevent the accidents? As the author maintained that the by provi...
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Line 4, column 459, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...he rate of accidents cannot be plummeted . The ambiance well be full of chaos as w...
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Line 4, column 566, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...s rate will be increase in the rapid way . If any of these holds true,the argument...
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Line 4, column 595, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...e rapid way . If any of these holds true,the argument asserted by author holds no tr...
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Line 5, column 105, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: If
...flawed predicated on flawed assumptions.If the author is able to answer the three ...
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Line 5, column 222, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...encein form of systematic research study then it is possible to strengthen .
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Line 5, column 257, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...study then it is possible to strengthen .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, well, such as, as well as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2177.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 448.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.859375 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69622197338 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.412946428571 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 679.5 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.6471155493 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.578947368 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5789473684 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57894736842 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0885967458655 0.218282227539 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0328296701946 0.0743258471296 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0460641399104 0.0701772020484 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0500684540763 0.128457276422 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0366036327229 0.0628817314937 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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