All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School. In the past two years, several accidents in and around Centerville have involved teenage drivers. Since a number of parents in Centerville have complained that they are too busy to teach their teenagers to drive, some other instruction is necessary to ensure that these teenagers are safe drivers. Although there are two driving schools in Centerville, parents on a tight budget cannot afford to pay for driving instruction. Therefore an effective and mandatory program sponsored by the high school is the only solution to this serious problem."
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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
To mandate a school-funded driver’s education course for all high school students poses as a great strategy to educate the youth and improve young driving records around Centerville, but the argument includes evidence that requires some finer analysis before any decisions should be made. The author of the letter makes a few assumptions about the causality of the issue and the potential response of the solution which hurts his or her argument.
Citing increased teenage accident records in the past two years helps the author draw attention to the severity of the issue. However, the author fails to provide context regarding the increased car fatalities involving adolescent drivers: how many accidents is several? depending on the population of centerville, 20 crashes can be considered a vast amount or it can be considered an unfortunate normality. Knowledge of the percentage of teenagers in car accidents in centerville would provide more insight on the gravity of vehicular collisions in the youth.
another hole in the author’s claim is the belief that the additional instruction works and will improve the driving ability of teens. The author uses this implication to propose that the best solution would be to provide driving courses to the students to reduce car crashes. More data would be required to validate this relationship such as the accident rate of teenagers who have passed the course versus the collision percentage of students who have not taken the training. this information will empower the reader to verify the effectiveness of proposing additional driving instruction to students in their ability to reduce and avoid crashes.
Also, the insistence of a school funded program originates from another assumption. The writer claims that low-income families cannot afford to pay for additional driving lessons, and thus their education should be subsidized by the school. Therefore, the school should fund driving classes for all the students. Instead of subsidizing all students for these extra courses, depending on the number of teenagers belonging to low-income families who also drive, perhaps the school could look into subsidizing only families who need financial help. Based on the number of people who require financial help the decision should be made whether it makes administrative sense to have a school funded course curriculum or not.
Overall, the proposal to design, fund, and implement a common high school driver’s education series has wishful intentions. unfortunately, lack of evidence and unproven assumptions hurt the writer’s argument, so it cannot be said for certain whether this proposal would be the best solution to the teenage car crash issue.
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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: 14 15
No. of Words: 424 350
No. of Characters: 2243 1500
No. of Different Words: 214 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.538 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.29 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.779 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 188 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 145 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.339 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.357 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.631 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.124 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 272, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Depending
...drivers: how many accidents is several? depending on the population of centerville, 20 cr...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Another
...ehicular collisions in the youth. another hole in the author's claim is the ...
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Line 7, column 483, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...udents who have not taken the training. this information will empower the reader to ...
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Line 13, column 130, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Unfortunately
...ducation series has wishful intentions. unfortunately, lack of evidence and unproven assumpti...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, regarding, so, therefore, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2326.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 424.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4858490566 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53775939005 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91895009702 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525943396226 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 722.7 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.1110467546 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.823529412 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9411764706 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05882352941 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283078990454 0.218282227539 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0836302325017 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0587101293118 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140881737746 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0305860773767 0.0628817314937 49% => 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: 16.9 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.5979740519 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.