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 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.
The statement certainly seems well thought and well stated at first. The Mason City residents, in surveys rank water sports activities among their favorite recreation activity but owing to the bad conditions of the river and the lack of budget a raise in the budget is being requested.
We are not sure which surveys are being mentioned. The questions that the Mason City residents were asked to answer in the survey are unclear. Also the statistics to back the ranking of water sports as the residents favorite recreational activity is not known. It statement states the "among" which can also be misguiding as the other choices are little known.
Although even if the surveys credibility is not doubted, the statement also says that the Mason River is rarely used for these pursuits so there is no certainty that on increasing the budget to riverside recreational facilities will raise the interests of the residents.
The complaints from residents about the quality of the river's water and the river's smell should be addressed with priority. Even with the little budget that is devoted by the city park departments, primarily plans to clean the river and its surrounding should be made. There can be several ways to tackle this issue without requiring a greater budget. The residents can too come together on weekends to help in whatever way possible. After the river has been cleaned another official survey can be done regarding this matter to come up an appropriate and efficient solution.
After this if the residents feel and support the devotion of more money to riverside recreational facilities then the same can be done.
Along with this regular maintenance and cleaning of the Mason River should be done to prevent the issue from resurfacing again.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 143, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ed to answer in the survey are unclear. Also the statistics to back the ranking of w...
^^^^
Line 3, column 22, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'surveys'' or 'survey's'?
Suggestion: surveys'; survey's
...are little known. Although even if the surveys credibility is not doubted, the stateme...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 371, Rule ID: TOO_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'to come'?
Suggestion: to come
...ing a greater budget. The residents can too come together on weekends to help in whateve...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, regarding, so, then, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1484.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 293.0 441.139720559 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06484641638 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71685646338 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532423208191 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 705.55239521 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1467192419 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.0 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9285714286 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.35714285714 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.137791809777 0.218282227539 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0595393285504 0.0743258471296 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0437791942504 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0740939188238 0.128457276422 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0451585010876 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 143, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ed to answer in the survey are unclear. Also the statistics to back the ranking of w...
^^^^
Line 3, column 22, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'surveys'' or 'survey's'?
Suggestion: surveys'; survey's
...are little known. Although even if the surveys credibility is not doubted, the stateme...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 371, Rule ID: TOO_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'to come'?
Suggestion: to come
...ing a greater budget. The residents can too come together on weekends to help in whateve...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, regarding, so, then, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1484.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 293.0 441.139720559 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06484641638 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71685646338 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532423208191 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 705.55239521 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1467192419 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.0 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9285714286 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.35714285714 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.137791809777 0.218282227539 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0595393285504 0.0743258471296 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0437791942504 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0740939188238 0.128457276422 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0451585010876 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.