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 examine the stated 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.
A Central Plaza store owner in his letter to the editor recommends that skateboarding should be prohibited as the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing over the past two years.He has presented some plausible facts to bolster his proposal but they have some loopholes and fallacies which need to be addressed before an action is taken.
Firstly he mentioned that while the number of shoppers in Central Plaza were steadily decreasing the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. We have not been provided any statistics about the correlation between the number of shoppers and the popularity of skateboarding. Also, increase in the popularity of skateboarding does not imply increase in the number of skateboarders. Some may love to watch other people skateboarding.
Secondly many store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. This statement is ambiguous. There is no concrete proof that the skateboarders are responsible for the decrease in the footfall in the Plaza.
In addition to this a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism has been witnessed. The shopkeepers fail to realise that increase in the number of shoppers will increase the amount of littering. But this problem can be easily fixed if they employ people to clean the place regularly. Vandalism is a crime and may be a serious issue. However skateboarders may not be responsible for it. There is no given proof of them being involved in vandalism. The police should look into the matter and the people responsible should be punished accordingly.
Lastly, the owner mentions that if skateboarding is prohibited there, they predict that business in Central Plaza will return to it's previously high levels. This statement is again based on the sole reason that skateboarders are responsible. There is no given business model that indicates rise of the sales again after Skateboarding is prohibited.
We do not know in which city or which type of place the Central Plaza mall is. There may have been an attraction nearby two years ago which may have attracted all the people.We do not know what kind of goods are sold there. If they sell long lasting goods like TVs and Washing Machines then the number of shoppers are bound to decrease .There may be other outside factors which we are not aware of.
After analysing all the various angles the facts provided do not seem to justify the prohibition of skateboarding in the Plaza. Although the reasons may be possible more information and data is needed to warrant an action.
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Discourse Markers used:
['accordingly', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'lastly', 'look', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'in addition', 'kind of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.228758169935 0.25644967241 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.21568627451 0.15541462614 139% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0544662309368 0.0836205057962 65% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0566448801743 0.0520304965353 109% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0305010893246 0.0272364105082 112% => OK
Prepositions: 0.126361655773 0.125424944231 101% => OK
Participles: 0.078431372549 0.0416121511921 188% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.87494827186 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0261437908497 0.026700313972 98% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.122004357298 0.113004496875 108% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0283224400871 0.0255425247493 111% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0152505446623 0.0127820249294 119% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2623.0 2731.13054187 96% => OK
No of words: 433.0 446.07635468 97% => OK
Chars per words: 6.05773672055 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.348729792148 0.378187486979 92% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.260969976905 0.287650121315 91% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.203233256351 0.208842608468 97% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.127020785219 0.135150697306 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87494827186 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 207.018472906 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471131639723 0.469332199767 100% => OK
Word variations: 51.9438211077 52.1807786196 100% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.039408867 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.8260869565 23.2022227129 81% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.8191026477 57.7814097925 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.043478261 141.986410481 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8260869565 23.2022227129 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.739130434783 0.724660767414 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.14285714286 136% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 3.58251231527 307% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 44.9230846471 51.9672348444 86% => OK
Elegance: 1.43165467626 1.8405768891 78% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.585863167758 0.441005458295 133% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.12677971705 0.135418324435 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.108072113636 0.0829849096947 130% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.587799559418 0.58762219726 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.216099543987 0.147661913831 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.215726742136 0.193483328276 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.164084555497 0.0970749176394 169% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.330098014681 0.42659136922 77% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0993419726791 0.0774707102158 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.369855506255 0.312017818177 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126337305306 0.0698173142475 181% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.33743842365 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 6.46551724138 170% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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