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.
The council of Maple County predicts that the proposed measure will result in a significant increase in housing while being concerned about the overdevelopment of Maple County. The prediction would have been solid had it been able to provide necessary information along with supporting evidence. The conclusion stands on shaky grounds of weak assumptions without enough support. The facts are manipulated and the truth is distorted for the prediction to be true. The argument is incomplete and it still needs to answer relevant questions for the validity of the conclusion.
Here the argument assumes that limiting housing supply will lead to only slight increases in the price of housing in the county. Firstly, the data of Chestnut county from 10 years ago is compared with Maple County based on the similarity in proposed measures with results only subtle increment. The comparison is done with two different counties with different geographical aspects. The first question that needs to be asked is "Is Chestnut County from 10 years ago similar in development and the geographical sector as that of Maple County?" The answer will help find out that if Chestnut County was bigger and less developed it only encountered a slight increase in prices but Maple County can result in a significant increase in housing prices.
In addition, 15 years of data from Pine County were included, which imposed restrictions on housing construction. As a result, this results in a significant increase in housing prices. Now, the next question that needs to be asked is that "Did Pine County also use limitation of housing supplies for the restriction on development of residential housing?". Pine County could have used another measure for the restriction on development and this eventually leads to an increase in house pricing. Through this, we can know if there is an actual relation between the limitation of housing supplies and a significant increase in housing prices.
Finally, the argument also assumes that limiting houses supply prevents the development of farmland in the County. Another question that needs to be answered is" Does prevention of farmland in county result in higher property value of farmland?", This will assist us in finding what the relation between the development of farmland and property value is which can help in making the prediction more reasonable.
In conclusion, the argument is not compelling enough. To make the prediction more cogent proof and evidence are required. The data that is presented should be of a similar period, group, and method holding statistical relevancy. As a result addition of answers that ultimately result in bolstering the argument should be done for the prediction to be true.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 440 350
No. of Characters: 2251 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.58 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.116 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.783 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 180 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 98 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.257 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.311 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.069 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 297, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...rmation along with supporting evidence. The conclusion stands on shaky grounds of w...
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Line 1, column 380, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...eak assumptions without enough support. The facts are manipulated and the truth is ...
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Line 1, column 464, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...istorted for the prediction to be true. The argument is incomplete and it still nee...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, so, still, while, in addition, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 33.0 16.3942115768 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2331.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 440.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29772727273 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57997565096 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94020909893 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.445454545455 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 715.5 705.55239521 101% => 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: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => 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: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.4594500373 57.8364921388 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.55 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.85 5.70786347227 85% => 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 : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273719348245 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0794663832363 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0974686506019 0.0701772020484 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144713263818 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0766271779243 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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