In surveys Mason City residents rank water sports (swimming, boating and fishing) among their favorite recreational activities. The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits, however, and the city park department devotes little of its budget to maintaining riverside recreational facilities. For years there have been complaints from residents about the quality of the river's water and the river's smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason River. Use of the river for water sports is therefore sure to increase. The city government should for that reason devote more money in this year's budget to riverside recreational facilities.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
As mentioned In the article, the argument is assumed that by cleaning the Mason city’s river, the use of the river for water sport is sure to increase, and the city government should devote more money to riverside recreational facilities. The assumption has a good intend, but it, in itself, may not be logically well supported. Given the fact that the argument is lack of sufficient evidence, strong logos, hardly could it hold water to be cogent.
Firstly, the argument describes a survey which claims water sports are Mason City residents’ favorite recreational activities. The survey cited by the author is too vague to be informative. The claims are lacking information about the number of people surveyed and the number of respondents, it is impossible to access the validity of the results. For example, if 200 persons were surveyed but only 2 responded, the conclusion that...would be highly suspect. Because the argument offers no evidence that would rule out this kind of interpretations,) Until these questions are answered, the results of the survey are worthless as evidence for the conclusion.
The argument observes a correlation between the fact that government is about to clean the river and the claim that the use of the river for water sport is sure to increase, then concludes that the former is the cause of the latter. Even if water sports are city residents’ favorite recreational activities, the argument fails to rule out that possible that clean-up water project might not increase the use of the river for sports. The clean-up water project might take years to be effective, and the use of the river might not increase in the short term. Also, even the water quality could be improved in the short term, people in the Mason City might already get used to do water sports in other places, like gym, but in the river.
The argument suggests that the city government should devote money in this year’s budget to riverside recreational facilities for the reason that the use of the river for water sports is sure to increase. Even if there might be a increase of the use of river for water sports, devoting budget is not necessary. The facilities may already be complete and do not require more budget to buy equipment. Even if the facilities are incomplete, other factors should be put into consideration. The money should be used for advertising, attracting more people to perform sports in the river or putting more efforts to increase and protect the water quality of the river.
For a final evaluation on this article, given insufficient data to solidify these and other hypotheses, a better investigation is therefore needed, which should conduct more investigation on more people and provide the number of sample in details. Also, the argument about cleaning river can cause increase of the user of river for water sports in not convincing and require more evidence. The suggestion mentioned in the end of the article might not be so effective and accurate.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 503 350
No. of Characters: 2429 1500
No. of Different Words: 192 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.736 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.829 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.604 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.15 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.286 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.65 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.363 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.564 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 234, 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
...ure to increase. Even if there might be a increase of the use of river for water ...
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Line 9, column 482, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...might not be so effective and accurate.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, so, then, therefore, well, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2520.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 502.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01992031873 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7334296765 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82274219967 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.402390438247 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 802.8 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 17.0 8.76447105788 194% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.4203863865 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.0 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.15 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291808402698 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104821140118 0.0743258471296 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108248073527 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185745716043 0.128457276422 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0613283949709 0.0628817314937 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.