"Last October the city of Belleville installed high-intensity lighting in its central business district, and vandalism there declined within a month. The city of Amburg has recently begun police patrols on bicycles in its business district, but the rate of vandalism there remains constant. We should install high-intensity lighting throughout Amburg, then, because doing so is a more effective way to combat crime. By reducing crime in this way, we can revitalize the declining neighborhoods in our city."
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 of the argument purportedly highlights that install high-intensity lighting could diminish vandalism and rate of crimes dramatically and is more effective than police patrols control on bicycles. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which some critical, yet ignored question need to be addressed.
The first assumption that lacks some semblance of truth and can be overtly impugned is the fact that by installing high-intensity lighting the vandalism could be diminished within a month. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether installing such a technology could reduce crimes forever. One point that should be considered is that the author does not show any information about the intensity of vandalism and crimes and also just provide information during a month. Indeed, what if the number of crimes and vandalism increase during next months? As a matter of fact, it could not be taken for granted that decline in vandalism just during a month can represent the accuracy and reliability of high lighting.
The author also asserts that a new city starts its police patrols on bicycles in districts and the rate of crimes do not decrease. Although it might seem tenable at a face, it has some defects since you can ask this question if these police patrols are responsible for vandalism and crimes. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that maybe these police officers play a different role in the districts and are not responsible of vandalism or maybe they are assigned for other purposes, who knows? Alongside that, maybe these police patrols officers on bicycles are not adept enough to prevent vandalism. There is a possibility that they are not skilled enough to control and handle the situation. What if the number of vandalism and crime rate reduce after assigning experienced police officers?
Putting previous assumptions aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author by installing high-intensity lighting, the city could be revitalized and the neighborhood will flourish and thrive. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if the main reason of flourishing a city is just reducing crimes. One point that should not go unnoticed is that a city needs many facilities and equipment in order to thrive and increase the neighborhood. Maybe neighborhoods of Amburg are declined due to the paucity of amenity and technological advancement. There is no doubt that crimes and vandalism are in every given society and could not be the major reason for the decline in neighborhoods.
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are many questions, having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK, and more: maybe other reasons have caused the decline of vandalism.
argument 2 -- not exactly. maybe 'police patrols on bicycles' works very well, but there are other reasons for the rate of vandalism.
argument 3 -- not completely. need to argue against the conclusion:
We should install high-intensity lighting throughout Amburg, then, because doing so is a more effective way to combat crime. By reducing crime in this way, we can revitalize the declining neighborhoods in our city.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 480 350
No. of Characters: 2392 1500
No. of Different Words: 218 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.681 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.983 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.751 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 172 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.323 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.619 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.303 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.519 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 41, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'start'?
Suggestion: start
...The author also asserts that a new city starts its police patrols on bicycles in distr...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, while, no doubt, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2446.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 480.0 441.139720559 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09583333333 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8248770868 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 765.9 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1881936885 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.476190476 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8571428571 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38095238095 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.228137838597 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0681690467866 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664705486579 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111199808216 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0628842976703 0.0628817314937 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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