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.
In the above argument the author cites a survey to support a prediction that the use of mason river for water sports will surely increase after the river is cleaned up as there have been many complaints regarding the quality and smell of river water . the author also recommends the city government to devote more money in this year's budget to the riverside recreational activities. the argument, however, seems to be written without giving a proper thought to the issue. the assumptions on which the argument is based is questionable due to which it seems to be lacking logic.
firstly, the survey taken up by the residents which showed water sports as their favorite recreational activity does not provide concrete basis to support our conclusion. for example, water sports could have been people's second choice of interest but due to lack of options in the survey they had to choose water sports among their favorite recreational activity. therefore the survey might not represent residents true interest. there is also a possibility that the survey was taken up by the tourists or people who live along the river side and not the city residents. unless the survey is truly reliable and genuine, it cannot be used effectively to support the argument.
secondly, residents complaints about the river being polluted can be one of the reasons why it is not used for recreational activities, it is however not enough to back the argument. people might have complained about the dirty river even if they had no desire to use river for water sports. also there is a possibility that some parts of the river may be polluted and residents have complained about that particular region.
thirdly, cleaning up the river might not an ensure an increase in the use of river for water sports. although there might be an increase in the recreational activities we are not sure as to what sought of activities, some people might consider water sports as dangerous or might not have the proper equipments. for them activities like camping by the riverside, cycling, or just sitting and enjoying the scenic beauty might be an option.
although, it may be wise enough to clean up the river, the assumptions stated by the author lacks complete information and seems to be biased and therefore the argument proposed does not justify increasing the budget to riverside recreational facilities.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 7 15
No. of Words: 398 350
No. of Characters: 1945 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.467 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.887 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.601 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 56.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 25.542 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.499 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.84 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.173 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...city government to devote more money in this years budget to the riverside recreatio...
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... to riverside recreational facilities.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1987.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 398.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99246231156 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68835518443 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.459798994975 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 630.0 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2368479821 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.1875 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.875 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6875 5.70786347227 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 26.0 5.25449101796 495% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.253210877678 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885214908013 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562941957228 0.0701772020484 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140073484264 0.128457276422 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0773261367904 0.0628817314937 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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