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 given prediction, the council predicts that the proposed measure of preventing the development of existing farmland in the county would lead to increase in the prices of the housing. The council has come to the conclusion that pine county had adopted the strategy fifteen years ago and their housing prices were doubled. However, before this prediction could be evaluated three questions need to be answered.
First of all, is the county overdeveloped only because of the residential houses? In other words, will limiting the supply for new housing control the overdevelopment process? It is possible that there might be other factors which are contributing to overdevelopment of the county-maybe construction of multinational companies is leading to the depletion of the farmland available. Further, construction of schools, colleges might also be one contributing reason for the lessening of the farmlands. If anyone of these reasons stated are found out to be true then the prediction is weakened.
Secondly, the situation which took place in chestnut ten years ago, is applicable even today? Are chestnut and maple counties on the same comparison line? Chestnut might not have good housing properties and maple may have better planning of houses than the former one. It is possible that chestnut does not have many amenities and that is why people are not willing to buy houses in chestnut county. Further, people living in chestnut are not willing to sell their houses and that is why the prices have remained constant or unchanged. If the above holds true, then the prediction for maple does not hold good.
Finally, pine county is doubling their housing prices in the last fifteen years only because of the prevention of the development of existing farmland? In other words, the hike in prices is only because of the development strategy proposed? It might be possible that the prices have been increasing as the quality, the amenities, services provided by pine county have been better over the years. Further, development of good markets, groceries, shopping malls might have been developing around the housing in pine county which increased the prices of the residential area. If any of the reason is found out to be true, then the prediction weakens.
In conclusion, the predication as predicted by the council is considerably flawed due to its reliance on unstated assumptions. If the author is able to answer the three questions above and provide more evidence, then it would be possible to consider the prediction as a viable one where the housing prices would increase because of the prevention of development of existing farmland.
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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: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 431 350
No. of Characters: 2178 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.556 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.053 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.764 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 163 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.524 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.657 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.619 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.322 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.367 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
In the given prediction, the council pre...
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Line 3, column 104, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'limit'
Suggestion: limit
...esidential houses? In other words, will limiting the supply for new housing control the ...
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Line 3, column 500, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...son for the lessening of the farmlands. If anyone of these reasons stated are foun...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2245.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 431.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20881670534 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83763917746 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.445475638051 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 685.8 705.55239521 97% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.6235481337 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.904761905 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5238095238 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52380952381 5.70786347227 97% => 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 : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227263945774 0.218282227539 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0785552596318 0.0743258471296 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0883806526391 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144361694218 0.128457276422 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688333794444 0.0628817314937 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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