The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In this passage, the author recommends a prohibition for skateboarding for the sake of saving business in Central Plaza. To support his/her claim, the author cites the coincidence between decrease of shopper number and the increasing popularity of skateboarding. Furthermore, majority of the store owners in Central Plaza also ascribes their business decline to the skateboard users. Quite convincing though such recommendation appears at first glance, there exists several questions regarding his/her lines of reasoning that requires further analysis. Therefore, the author's conclusion could end up being pretty compelling or invalid in the end, depending on the answers to these questions.
To start off, the author's reasoning heavily relies on the supposed causal relationship between shopper decline and increase of skateboarding in Central Plaza, a question that is not yet answered. However, it is likely that shopper's decline have little to do with skateboarding activity, because shoppers might have their own shipping habits or budget for purchase, which is total discoupled with skateboarding activity in the city. Without additional information to evaluate how shopper's behaviors and purchase capacity have changed in the two past year, it is possible that too excessive purchase in the beginning of these two year lead to their financial quandary then briddle their further purchase. Such phenomenon could seriously challenge the causal relationship mentioned above and render the author's recommendation much less advisable. Otherwise, if the author could prove that shopper have disgusted with skateboarding activity in city and their purchase capacity have nothing to do with their financial status the author's viewpoint will gain more weights.
Granted that such coincidence and given the fact about the store owner's idea and dramatic increase of litter and vandalism in the city, whether skateboarding actually do harm to business and city environment needs a second look. Behind the author's reasoning lie two critical implications. The first one is that store owners represented the truth and their opinion about harm of skateboarding's impair to their business is true. However, the probability that they just took these as an excuse to get more financial support from the city government must be considered and address. Yet, if the author could sufficiently demonstrate that the increasing skateboarding activities actually impede with majority of store's sales, his/her conclusion will be strengthened.
Furthermore, the second implication is that litter and vandalism are actually caused by the people engaging with skateboarding. While the skateboarder might use the public venue for their activity, the probability that they all conformed to the social conduct could not be excluded in advance. For example, such litter and vandalism actually stem from other people. Thus, we have no clues whether several destruction of city could be inculpated to skateboarding. If no, social destruction happenings are unlikely to relate with skateboarding.
Last but not least, while we can acknowledge for a moment that skateboarding actually heavily impact the business sales and city status, it remains to be seen whether the prohibition could immediately help business of Central Plaza return to the original level. Other factors, such as the recovery duration and shopper's recovery time, could seriously affect how long such approach would work. If shopper's and business sales have already been in the most worse situation, it is doubtful that a short recovery time could help city draw from such quandary.
In summary, while shopper's decline might be attributable to the increase of skateboarding, this is a conclusion that we can not derive from the information available in the passage. Furthermore, even if such coincidence represents their casual relationship, the recovery of the business sales and less city destruction out of enacting of such prohibition is still built upon implications, which are open to different probabilities. Only after these aforementioned questions are adequately addressed can we efficiently evaluate this recommendation and reach a logically sound conclusion.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, look, regarding, second, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, for example, in summary, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3598.0 2235.4752809 161% => OK
No of words: 635.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.66614173228 5.05705443957 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01988110783 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06614051903 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474015748031 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 1110.6 704.065955056 158% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1444275557 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.384615385 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4230769231 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.84615384615 5.21951772744 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195035038344 0.243740707755 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0577290685628 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0582474055393 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104250182048 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0573680414711 0.0667264976115 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.9 12.1639044944 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 162.0 100.480337079 161% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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