Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels.
To assess whether prohibiting skateboarding in Central Plaza would increase business activity in the area, returning it to previously high levels, two main questions must be answered. Is the increase in the number of skateboard users the only reason that could explain the decrease in the number of shoppers in Central Plaza? Also, can the dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza be explained by other reasons? Let's dive into those two questions and explain how the answers would help evaluate the recommendation.
First, to make sure the recommendation would produce the desired result, we must make sure the increase in the number of skateboard users is the only reason that could explain the decrease in the number of shoppers in Central Plaza. What else could explain this decrease? Evaluating the state of the overall economy would be very important. Let's suppose the economy is in a downtrend, with businesses registering a decrease in revenues everywhere. In that case, it would be impossible to say for sure that skateboarders were the reason for the decrease in shoppers in Central Plaza. Also, other factors such as the rise of pricing of products and services offered in Central Plaza, as well as unemployment in the neighboring communities, could as well explain the decrease in shoppers over the past two years. Alternative hypothesis such as those should be generated and checked before moving to action.
Second, what else could explain the dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza? The recommendation of prohibiting skateboarding would only generate the desired result if it is proven that skateboarders are the reason for such an increase. However, other reasons could explain this. Consider for example an increase in the number of homeless people in Central Plaza over the past two years. That could very well explain the amount of litter and vandalism. Also, we should check whether the government investment levels in city cleaning and maintenance is not decreasing during this period. If so, that could also very well explain the increase in the amount of litter and vandalism. Hypothesis such as those must also be verified and ruled out before moving to action.
Answering those two main questions, whether the increase in the number of skateboard users are the only reason that could explain the decrease in the number of shoppers in Central Plaza, and whether skateboarders are the only reason that could explain the dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza, is extremely important before rushing into prohibiting the activity. Otherwise, the action can be taken but the result expected, returning business activity in Central Plaza to previously high levels, might not be achieved.
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Essay evaluation report
also need to argue:
Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels.
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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: 21 15
No. of Words: 454 350
No. of Characters: 2322 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.616 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.115 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.713 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.619 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.537 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.619 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.383 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.496 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, well, for example, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2375.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 454.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23127753304 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77685522058 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.354625550661 0.468620217663 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 736.2 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => 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: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.4459026157 57.8364921388 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.095238095 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.619047619 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.85714285714 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306907172931 0.218282227539 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111317100248 0.0743258471296 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107745111887 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.247994997979 0.128457276422 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0561365316389 0.0628817314937 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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