The city council of Town X has proposed reducing the city’s electric expenses by switching all the lights in public buildings from incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The switch would be made gradually as the old incandescent bulbs burn out, and the city council reasons that since LED lights burn brighter and cost no more to purchase, the switch would help Town X save money on electrical costs in the future.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to help evaluate the efficacy of the city council’s proposal to save money on electrical costs. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the council’s prediction.
In this argument, the city council suggests that all the incandescent bulbs of public buildings should be replaced by LEDs to save the city’s electric expenses. To bolster this recommendation, the city council reason that this policy should be successful since LED light is brighter and its price is not more expensive than traditional bulb. However, this reasoning is rife with unjustifiable assumptions since some critical questions are not answered in the argument.
First of all, the city council does not compare the energy efficiency between these two lights. Does LED consume less electricity than incandescent bulb? Does LED produce less heat so that public buildings do not need more air conditioners which may be another major origin of the electric expenses? It is possible that LED bulb consumes more electricity and even make the public office hotter. In this case, it is not so helpful for the city to apply this change.
In addition, the city council does not state clearly the scope of electric expenses. According to the reasoning it provides in the argument, we may safely assume that the cost of buying new LED lights and installation and maintenance fee are also included in this category. Then, we may question that does it cost less to maintain the LED lights than maintaining traditional bulbs? Is the life span of LEDs long so that the cost of purchasing is not a repetitive expense? If the city council can provide information which indicates positive answers for these questions, the argument will be more strongly strengthened.
In conclusion, despite the city council’s suggestion seems appealing, its validity is by no means well established since several critical points are still open to doubt. To further support their idea, the city council should provides statistics and proof which can show that LED is more energy-saving and thus will reduce the electric expenses. The city council also need to provide more information on the estimated cost of applying this change and maintain the LEDs to further increase the credibility of the recommendation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 231, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[2]
Message: The verb 'should' requires the base form of the verb: 'provide'
Suggestion: provide
...ort their idea, the city council should provides statistics and proof which can show tha...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, so, still, then, thus, well, in addition, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1763.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 339.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2005899705 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87536031475 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504424778761 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.2678792524 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.1875 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1875 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.25 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.315500183218 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119365589869 0.0743258471296 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0870781040413 0.0701772020484 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213386234259 0.128457276422 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592701778022 0.0628817314937 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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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