The following appeared in a letter to the editor of Parson City's local newspaper.
"In our region of Trillura, the majority of money spent on the schools that most students attend — the city-run public schools — comes from taxes that each city government collects. The region's cities differ, however, in the budgetary priority they give to public education. For example, both as a proportion of its overall tax revenues and in absolute terms, Parson City has recently spent almost twice as much per year as Blue City has for its public schools — even though both cities have about the same number of residents. Clearly, Parson City residents place a higher value on providing a good education in public schools than Blue City residents do."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument that Parson City residents place a higher value on providing good education in public schools than the residents of Blue City is not entirely logically convinving since it ignores certain crucial assumptions.
Firstly, the author assumes that the amount of money spent on public schools is the only marker for the quality of education in public schools, in essence, the residents' concern with education in their cites can be appropriately measured with the tax revenues spent of public school
Secondly, the argument considers that money spent on public schools of the two cities comes solely from taxes collected from its residents. The author never addresses other sources of financial support that public schools of Blue city might be receiving, such as, government fundings and donations from charitable trusts.
On the other hand, even suppossing that the amount of money spent on public schools is an ideal indicator for the standard of education, the argument does not cast light upon the number of students or the number of public schools in the two cities. Clearly, a lower student population and a lesser number of schools would require lesser financial support. Moreover, the author does not present any information about private schools in these cities either.
Lastly, the author does not provide any evidence upon the expenses covered by the money spent on public schools. For instance, spending money on rennovation of school bulidings and beautification of campuses might not affect the standard of education in schools, while hiring more experienced teachers or, making school libraries more resourceful would definately enhance the education quality.
Thus, the argument is not completely sound. The evidence in support of the conclusion that both as a proportion of its overall tax revenues and in absolute terms, Parson city spent almost twisce as much per year as Blue City has for its public schools does little to prove the conclusion, since it does not address the assumptions already raised. Ultimately, the argument might have been strenghtened if the author could have shown an extensive comparision between the schooling system of the two cities, with information about the number of students, teacher, staff and schools in the two cities, along with imrovements made in public schools with the taxes collected from the residents. This would help analyse and set a corelation if higher money spent on public educational institution implies a better schooling system.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 12 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 398 350
No. of Characters: 2071 1500
No. of Different Words: 182 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.467 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.204 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.597 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.908 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.424 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.677 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...finately enhance the education quality. Thus, the argument is not completely sou...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while, as for, for instance, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.6327345309 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2125.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 398.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3391959799 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66456901433 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.482412060302 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 639.0 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 110.276514826 57.8364921388 191% => OK
Chars per sentence: 177.083333333 119.503703932 148% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.1666666667 23.324526521 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0833333333 5.70786347227 177% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.342994869183 0.218282227539 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133358209235 0.0743258471296 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0739528089745 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204062194378 0.128457276422 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0722743477005 0.0628817314937 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.3 14.3799401198 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 48.3550499002 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.28 12.5979740519 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.24 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 28.5 12.3882235529 230% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => OK
text_standard: 29.0 11.9071856287 244% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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