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.
In the argument, the council of Maple County addresses it’s concern over the county being overdeveloped and assumes the prevention of development of existing farmland will solve its dilemma. But the council assumes two things here: first, viewing the County becoming overdeveloped as a conundrum and second, limiting the supply of new housing will prevent their problem. These two assumptions give rise to various questions, which if not answered will seriously damage the County’s future.
Firstly, the Council deems the county as overdeveloped. Why is the overdevelopment of the County a problem? The Council doesn’t shed any light to how the County is being overdeveloped. What are the problems that are being faced by the County with the overdevelopment? How is it affecting the inhabitants? How many of the people residing there see this as a threat? The argument needs to answer these questions so as to make clear the fundamentals of the argument for better decision making.
Furthermore, the argument mentions that to prevent this ‘overdevelopment’, one should limit the supply of housing, which in turn could increase the housing prices significantly. The argument’s proponents cite references of other Counties such Chestnut and Pine Counties for this purpose. They mention that the chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago and housing prices haven’t increased only modestly. The argument fails to take into factor that the housing prices that were present ten years ago would be significantly different from now. The social, geographical, etc. factors have also changed dramatically since then. Comparing situations to ten years back could also lead to erroneous predictions which would prove to be harmful for the future. Likewise, for Pine County, which has in the last fifteen years ago surged dramatically to be twice compared to then. The argument doesn’t provide the convincing evidence such as environmental and social factors which could have boomed the prices. For example, Pine county in the last fifteen years ago would have went on to become a major attraction point to a lot of industries; this would it an ideal location to live in considering the abundance of employment options.
Additionally, the Council assumes that preventing the development of farmlands is the only way to stop overdevelopment. Are there no other options available? Can only limiting housing supply help solve the issue? Maybe the housing supply is a constant source of income to a lot of residents and stemming its development would lead the decline in growth of the County.
In summary, to be fully be able adopt the measure provide by the Council of Maple County, the former needs to answer several questions that would clarify a lot of things and give a clearer picture for taking such significant decisions. The council provides little information in favor of its arguments for us to believe in its practicality. Any decision taken towards the County needs to be thoroughly assessed whilst taking in consideration all positive and negative factors along with proper evidence/ facts. Only then one could put trust in the Council’s decision.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 509 350
No. of Characters: 2602 1500
No. of Different Words: 248 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.75 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.112 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.836 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 195 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 146 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.852 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.046 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.285 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.285 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
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Line 2, column 410, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...rgument needs to answer these questions so as to make clear the fundamentals of the argu...
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Line 3, column 1084, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[6]
Message: Note: went is a past participle of "wend". Did you mean 'gone' (past participle of "go")?
Suggestion: gone
...n the last fifteen years ago would have went on to become a major attraction point t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, likewise, may, second, so, then, as to, for example, in summary, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2681.0 2260.96107784 119% => OK
No of words: 506.0 441.139720559 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29841897233 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7428307748 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02091179537 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 204.123752495 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 824.4 705.55239521 117% => 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: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.8572662418 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.75 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0714285714 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.14285714286 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
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: 0.350027195669 0.218282227539 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0951566314645 0.0743258471296 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100979658478 0.0701772020484 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203907618364 0.128457276422 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0990768923797 0.0628817314937 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 98.500998004 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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