The following appeared in a memorandum written by the chairperson of the West Egg Town Council.
"Two years ago, consultants predicted that West Egg's landfill, which is used for garbage disposal, would be completely filled within five years. During the past two years, however, the town's residents have been recycling twice as much material as they did in previous years. Next month the amount of recycled material—which includes paper, plastic, and metal—should further increase, since charges for pickup of other household garbage will double. Furthermore, over 90 percent of the respondents to a recent survey said that they would do more recycling in the future. Because of our town's strong commitment to recycling, the available space in our landfill should last for considerably longer than predicted."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In the given memorandum written by the chairperson of the West Egg Town Council talks about landfill which is used for garbage disposal. Two years ago, the consultant predicted that landfill will be full within five years but as now people started recycling some material so, the space in landfill will not full in long time. The argument seems to be convincing at first glance, but it has different loopholes which makes it weaken. The following paragraphs talks about weakness of the given argument.
Firstly, the town's residents have recycling the material such as paper, plastic and metals for further use. It is a good initiative to make space in landfill but there are limitations of the recycling of the material. It is difficult to recycle the material at home because people have limited time and energy to utilize in such menial works. As well as people's need should meet with recycled material then only that material can be used by them. For example, we utilize the sweets and cookies boxes to save things, but they used for long time and so many boxes collected, after a limited time I get puzzled with the collection of boxes. There is one more point that they talked about only paper, plastic and metal waste and what about other waste material such as glass, food, old cloths hairs, napkins and diapers etc. The chairperson should consider all type of waste material and should pay attention on limitation of people lived in their town.
Secondly, the citizens will encourage to recycle the material by doubling the charges to pick up household garbage is also seeming impractical. It depends on the citizens weather they have time or not. Everyone wants to save earth from garbage and recycle the material, but they do not have sufficient time to invest on recycling process. It may strong possibility that people get ready to pay double charges and become relaxed from such time-consuming process of recycling material. Instead of encouraging people to recycle the material chairperson should open recycling unit near landfill. For example, in my city collector develop the recycling units near composite pit and the municipal corporation collect the garbage and recycle the material. It gives employment to any people also and the city become clean and people also relaxed from daily problems of garbage.
Finally, the arguer also supported the points with survey to make the argument stronger, but it is not clearly mentioned. According to survey more than 90 percent respondents that they would recycle the waste in future. There are two major flaws, first is the 90 percent is not mentioning the whole town it indicates the respondent of the people who participated in the survey. It may be possible half of the population of the town participated in the survey. Secondly, the respondents committed to recycle the material in future and they did not mention any time limits. It may be possible that they start recycling in 2050 which is too late. The West Egg Town Council should initiate the steps to recycle the material in spite of encouraging the people.
Conclusively, based on above discussion the given argument is not well thought by the arguer. The garbage is one of the major problems not only for cities, but it become challenge for countries also. They should take steps to manage the garbage in holistic approaches despite of encouraging people to do it at individual level.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 573 350
No. of Characters: 2787 1500
No. of Different Words: 251 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.893 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.864 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.519 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 199 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 154 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 101 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.35 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.741 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.302 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.493 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 459, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[2]
Message: You should probably use 'talk'.
Suggestion: talk
...kes it weaken. The following paragraphs talks about weakness of the given argument. ...
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Line 5, column 39, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'recycling'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'encourage' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: recycling
... Secondly, the citizens will encourage to recycle the material by doubling the charges to...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 116, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...he charges to pick up household garbage is also seeming impractical. It depends on the citizens...
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Line 7, column 210, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...dents that they would recycle the waste in future. There are two major flaws, first is th...
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Line 9, column 164, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'becomes'?
Suggestion: becomes
...or problems not only for cities, but it become challenge for countries also. They shou...
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Line 9, column 195, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
..., but it become challenge for countries also. They should take steps to manage the g...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, for example, such as, as well as, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 55.5748502994 135% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2849.0 2260.96107784 126% => OK
No of words: 573.0 441.139720559 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97207678883 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89258810929 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57597061952 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 258.0 204.123752495 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450261780105 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 894.6 705.55239521 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.2482161559 57.8364921388 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 101.75 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4642857143 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42857142857 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174337739087 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.052451713882 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0837889091643 0.0701772020484 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11806482305 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109700596848 0.0628817314937 174% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 98.500998004 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.