The following is a memorandum from the office of Mayor Harrison Smith Jones.
"In order to relieve Briggsville’s notorious traffic congestion, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones plans to build a multi-million dollar subway system. The subway will run through the major downtown areas, a part of the town where buses serve as the only form of public transportation. For years, residents have been complaining both about inconsistent buses, and the general lack of safety while riding the buses. Additionally, the subway will be running twenty-four hours a day. Since motorists will spend less time in traffic, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones expects to see an immediate increase in worker productivity, which will improve the economy of Briggsville."
The given argument is based on numerous, rather optimistic, assumptions which if proved unwarranted will make the argument fall apart.
To begin with, according to the argument the subway will run through the major downtown areas where only buses serve as a way of public transport. And the public is not satisfied with the current bus system due to its inconsistency and lack of safety. Here the argument assumes that the said subway system will not have these flaws and thus the public will be aligned to use it over buses. If true, this will indeed reduce the number of buses in the downtown area eventually and consequently will aid in solving the traffic problem. However if the assumption turns out to be wrong the subway system would be nothing more than an expensive experiment that failed to give expected results matching the desired quantity.
Secondly, the argument states nothing about the locality of the traffic problem in the city of Briggsville. The plan in the memorandum assumes that an alternative means of public transport in the downtown area will ease up the traffic in the entire city. Despite the added option for intra-city travel, no benefits can be observed in the traffic congestion problem if the proposed solution does not address the root area that is causing the problem.
Also, no details about the temporal distribution of the traffic problem are specified by the argument. The proposed subway system will run twenty-four hours a day. This fact has no bearing on the problem at hand if the traffic peaks only during a particular time of the day which is highly probable because majority of the populace works at similar timings. More information about the time of the day at which traffic peaks and the working habits of the demography of Briggsville in terms of working hours is required without which the argument might fail.
At last but not the least, the traffic congestion that occurs in Briggsville might not even be due to the lack of a reliable public transport system. The argument assumes it to be the cause. There are a myriad of other factors that can contribute to traffic congestion like a huge amount of private vehicles, pedestrians interfering with motor vehicles, improperly planned roads, etc. Thus, subway system won't help if this is the case.
As we can see the argument is based on multiple assumptions and will fail if those prove to be unwarranted.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 410 350
No. of Characters: 1969 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.5 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.802 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.551 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 141 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.118 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.471 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.706 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.346 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.613 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.087 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 79, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...s, rather optimistic, assumptions which if proved unwarranted will make the argume...
^^
Line 3, column 534, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ill aid in solving the traffic problem. However if the assumption turns out to be wrong...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 204, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'myriads'?
Suggestion: myriads
...assumes it to be the cause. There are a myriad of other factors that can contribute to...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2015.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 409.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92665036675 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60800325993 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498777506112 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 623.7 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5663603539 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.944444444 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7222222222 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38888888889 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.140407614708 0.218282227539 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0526397906003 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0409831425707 0.0701772020484 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0681019479776 0.128457276422 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0394251285425 0.0628817314937 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => 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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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.