The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The author appears to be enveloped in the concern for the housing market of Maple County due to the development status of the county. However, the predicitions and observations that he puts forward are vague and rife with assumptions, causing the problem that he raises to not be cogent.
The first observation that acts as both the foundation to the issue – while simultaneously causing the majority of the ambiguity – is that Maple County is “overdeveloped.” However, the author fails to provide some sort of metric to gauge this statement. Is there an up-and-coming city emerging? Is it based on population and/or jobs coming into the county? Ignoring any sort of assessment to determined the gravity of the “overdevelopment” weakens the case at hand, thus the author should give examples. Moreover, the council of the county wants to mitigate this problem by going after the development of the farmland. Does the development coincide or compete with the development of the farmland? If Maple County predominantly farmland, and is that thus somehow suppose to provide the reader with a sort of background for the economic status of Maple County? Even the extent to which the development of the farmland would be checked is left unanswered, causing the issue to be less convicining, and the solution to the problem less conceivable.
Following the concerns emdemic to Maple County, one question at hand that will help clarify Maple County’s concern with housing is what aspect of the housing price is being altered? Houses are not a ‘one time’ purchase: they have other expendatures that would be a concern for homeowners, such as tax on land, utility, and mortage. The author fails again to clarify this matter, thus making predictions for the increase muddled. Additionally, the author omits a metric for the “significant increase” in the pricing of housing. Is the housing of Maple County already high, especially for people currently living there? Again, is the fact that Maple County has farmland suppose to clarify the economic status of the inhabitants. This variable could vary widely, especially in the United States. For example, farmland in northeastern state have to deal with larger taxes than southern of mid-US states. Thus, knowing the geographic, economic, and what aspects of the payments for housing that are expected to increase will help target better solutions for the issue.
This issue with a lack of a metric continues to the other counties. The author mentions the “modest” success of Chestnut County and the “doubled” pricing of Pine, but fails to acknowledge why this matters. Are these counties even in the same state as Maple County? Do they also have areas of farmland equal to that of Maple? Chestnut County apparently used similar measures to maintain their housing market problem. Does this county perhaps have more or less farmland that was stemmed? Knowing this information will focalize the solution to Maple County’s economic state.
Finally, the author ends the report with a prediction that Maple County will ultimately have significantly increased housing costs. An underlying question to this prediction derives from who is conceiving the prediction? The ambigious council mentioned does not clarify what third party members are working in forecasting this pricing. If, for example, the council utilized experts in the real-estate market of the surrounding counties, along with members involved in economic affairs, then maybe this prediction could be viable. However, since the author’s case is inundated with uncleat information regarding the ecnomic and geographic status of the counties, the prediction is thus unreasonable. The author’s concern is undoubtly understandable, but answers to the proposed questions will hopefully allow for a more clear, targeted solution to this problem of “overdevelopment.”
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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: 33 15
No. of Words: 612 350
No. of Characters: 3157 1500
No. of Different Words: 272 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.974 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.158 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.749 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 245 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 190 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 119 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 67 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.545 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.742 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.576 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.275 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.433 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 203, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... price is being altered? Houses are not a 'one time' purchase: they hav...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, third, thus, while, for example, sort of, such as, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 55.5748502994 142% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3349.0 2260.96107784 148% => OK
No of words: 613.0 441.139720559 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46329526917 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97582523872 4.56307096286 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.34157458022 2.78398813304 120% => OK
Unique words: 286.0 204.123752495 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466557911909 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 1026.9 705.55239521 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 19.7664670659 162% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.7526795804 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.65625 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.15625 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71875 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 16.0 4.67664670659 342% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187928986167 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.057194714033 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0561943975212 0.0701772020484 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118532275542 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0277072416113 0.0628817314937 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 98.500998004 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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