Argument Nature s Way a chain of stores selling health food and other health related products is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville The store should prove to be very successful Nature s Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville. The store should prove to be very successful: Nature's Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, and clearly Plainsville is such an area. Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. The local health club has more members than ever, and the weight training and aerobics classes are always full. Finally, Plainsville's schoolchildren represent a new generation of potential customers: these schoolchildren are required to participate in a fitness-for-life program, which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise at an early age.

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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

It is pointed out from the text that Nature's Way is confident about the success of its next franchise due to the data found about Plainsville. However, wrong assumptions are being applied, which undermines the credibility of the statement.

First of all, it mentions several data to prove that residents in Plainsville are enthusiastic about leading a healthy lifestyle. However, most of the data only suggests that people do have the ‘intention’ to live healthy, instead of having the ‘actions’ to truly motivate them to consume healthy food. For example, it shows that the sales of exercise-related products and members of health clubs are high. However, it is common that people prepare lots of exercise tools and classes in advance, but never catch on the original goal to truly exercise. Therefore, concluding that people are active in buying any healthy food merely based on this type of data is problematic since no causal relation is being proved.

Next, if people in Plainsville already spend so much on exercise related activities, it is possible that they are not willing to buy any healthy food since the budget is limited. Furthermore, it also states that the classes are full and it may suggest that people in Plainsville prefer to stay healthy by exercise, not by having healthy food. What I would like to emphasize here is that people can take different actions to keep healthy and it is unknown that people who exercise a lot will also be passionate about taking healthy food. Therefore, if there is no further information to prove that people who exercise also eat healthy, the conclusion will be highly questionable.

Last, though the school-children are joining the fitness program, it doesn’t guarantee their following behaviors on leading a healthy lifestyle or buying healthy food. Indeed, there are numerous other factors that may determine whether the children will live healthy or not and not to mention that children are affected by their peers more than the classes taught in school. Therefore, it is premature to predict children’s behaviors purely hinge on the fitness program.

To sum up, incorrect assumptions about people’s intention and behaviors, and problematic causal relation on people who exercise and take healthy food are the same group, as well as the biased emphasis on the influence of fitness programs on school-children make the statement specious.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, as well as, first of all, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2033.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 390.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21282051282 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8636388303 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520512820513 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 621.0 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1602469129 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.533333333 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.26666666667 5.70786347227 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.137425091543 0.218282227539 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0514587767567 0.0743258471296 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0456271830155 0.0701772020484 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0834413299925 0.128457276422 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0620065185905 0.0628817314937 99% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, as well as, first of all, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments