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.
The author claims that inhibiting the skateboarding in the Central Plaza will restore it to its previous levels as the skateboarding is crucial reason for decrease in business in the Plaza. However, this claim is rife with flaws as author has not provided any evidence relating the decline in business and stakeholders. Also, there can be other reasons as well that undermines the reason given by author for falling business in the plaza. Without carefully analysing different questions, it would not be cogent to reach a concrete solution.
First, the author stated no reason that why the skateboard users are key reasons for business loss that Central Plaza is incurring ? Increase in stakeholder users cannot be related to the Central plaza, unless proper evidence are provided. In case, author provides some evidence or cases like skateboard users are actually causing trouble to people and they cannot freely move in the plaza, hence, they stopped coming or an incident like in which a skateboard users accidently hit someone. If, such cases or incidents author would have mentioned, then it create a ground for actually thinking about banning skateboard users inside the plaza. However, since, author didn't provided any such incidents, so, reaching to a conclusion that preventing skateboard users would resume the normal functioning of Plaza is not correct.
Also, author has mentioned that there is proliferation in the vandalism or littering cases throughout the plaza. It might be possible that vandalism has intimidated people and thus they stopped coming or littering has made plaza more like a fetid pool of water. Thus, people on seeing no cleanliness stopped coming. So, unless these two factors are not taken care of and proactive measures are taken for them, it wouldn't be prudent to say that skateboarding is the prime cause.
Furthermore, the author has mentioned that this trend of downfall of business in plaza is seen from past two years. It is very likely that in past two years something might have changed that has cause plaza sales to be down. For example, may be a construction work is going on outside the plaza, making it difficult for people to come there or maybe a new factory has set up in the nearby region that is releasing a very pungent smell; making difficult for the people in nearby region to stay for too long.
Also, maybe a change in the authority maintaining the plaza might have taken place, who pay less attention to cleanliness inside the plaza inside because of which people are reluctant to go inside the plaza itself, hence, leading to business loss in plaza. Without answering all these questions, it's not wise to reach to any point.
To sum up, author cannot conclude that skateboarding is real cause for business loss in Central Plaza; the claim needs to be backed by proper evidence. Also, there are numerous reasons as listed, which can have deleterious effects on the business. Unless, we carefully and meticulously analyze all these questions, it's not wise to reach to any conclusion.
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'first', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'for example', 'to sum up']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.239786856128 0.25644967241 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.186500888099 0.15541462614 120% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0586145648313 0.0836205057962 70% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0674955595027 0.0520304965353 130% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0284191829485 0.0272364105082 104% => OK
Prepositions: 0.127886323268 0.125424944231 102% => OK
Participles: 0.0710479573712 0.0416121511921 171% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.62627847718 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0319715808171 0.026700313972 120% => OK
Particles: 0.00532859680284 0.001811407834 294% => OK
Determiners: 0.088809946714 0.113004496875 79% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0230905861456 0.0255425247493 90% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.01243339254 0.0127820249294 97% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3049.0 2731.13054187 112% => OK
No of words: 507.0 446.07635468 114% => OK
Chars per words: 6.01380670611 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74517233601 4.57801047555 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.386587771203 0.378187486979 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.248520710059 0.287650121315 86% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.179487179487 0.208842608468 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.114398422091 0.135150697306 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62627847718 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 207.018472906 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453648915187 0.469332199767 97% => OK
Word variations: 52.1322090904 52.1807786196 100% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.039408867 105% => OK
Sentence length: 24.1428571429 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.9445352125 57.7814097925 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.19047619 141.986410481 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1428571429 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 48.9949281488 51.9672348444 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.5534591195 1.8405768891 84% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.40189519657 0.441005458295 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.135002328626 0.135418324435 100% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0914076964637 0.0829849096947 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.551805692813 0.58762219726 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.151147659 0.147661913831 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161720434193 0.193483328276 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108693683889 0.0970749176394 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.358751733716 0.42659136922 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0519322133832 0.0774707102158 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.268628806313 0.312017818177 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0575176773252 0.0698173142475 82% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.87684729064 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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