The following appeared in a memo from a budget planner for the city of Grandview.
"When the Grandview Symphony was established ten years ago, the city of Grandview agreed to provide the symphony with annual funding until the symphony became self-sustaining. Two years ago, the symphony hired an internationally known conductor, who has been able to attract high-profile guest musicians to perform with the symphony. Since then, private contributions to the symphony have tripled and attendance at the symphony's outdoor summer concert series has reached record highs. Now that the symphony has succeeded in finding an audience, the city can eliminate its funding of the symphony."
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.
The author of this argument suggest that since the Grandview Symphony has been successful over last two years to perform high quality concerts, and to attract larger group of people during summer performances, they can deprive them from their financial support. However, the author has based his conclusion based on insufficiently supported evidences.
First, the author assumes that the symphony will keeps its fans in other seasons as well, and the revenue that the symphony may make form that suffices part of their expenses. However, High attendance in summer concerts might have been the result of larger number of foreign visitors of that city, and in other season they might not be as successful as they used to be in through summer performances. In addition, indoor performance impose higher expenses to the conductor as they need to perform for smaller number of groups and to provide extra facilities like ventilation system.
Furthermore, the author did not provide detailed information about the required fund for keeping the symphony running. If the revenue made from participants, and private fund only cover a small part of their expenses, then cutting the funding from the city surely cuts considerable part of their sources and they will fail to invite well-known musicians as they did over last two years. Thus, their fans definitely diminishes and they further lose this source of revenue as well.
Based on the highlighted flaws in the argument, the author has not been successful to make a persuasive case for cutting the fund. To strengthen his/her argument, the author would better provide the share of all contributors and a prediction regarding the interests of participants to attend in the future performances of the symphony in other locations and seasons.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'keep'
Suggestion: keep
...e author assumes that the symphony will keeps its fans in other seasons as well, and ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...er lose this source of revenue as well. Based on the highlighted flaws in the ar...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'in addition']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.262820512821 0.25644967241 102% => OK
Verbs: 0.141025641026 0.15541462614 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0833333333333 0.0836205057962 100% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0544871794872 0.0520304965353 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0480769230769 0.0272364105082 177% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.137820512821 0.125424944231 110% => OK
Participles: 0.0416666666667 0.0416121511921 100% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.74360050846 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0320512820513 0.026700313972 120% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.099358974359 0.113004496875 88% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0224358974359 0.0255425247493 88% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00641025641026 0.0127820249294 50% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1795.0 2731.13054187 66% => OK
No of words: 288.0 446.07635468 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.23263888889 6.12365571057 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.57801047555 90% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.388888888889 0.378187486979 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.288194444444 0.287650121315 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.197916666667 0.208842608468 95% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.138888888889 0.135150697306 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74360050846 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 207.018472906 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541666666667 0.469332199767 115% => OK
Word variations: 55.0891063899 52.1807786196 106% => OK
How many sentences: 10.0 20.039408867 50% => More sentences wanted.
Sentence length: 28.8 23.2022227129 124% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.6239119831 57.7814097925 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 179.5 141.986410481 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.8 23.2022227129 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.2 0.724660767414 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 57.6194444444 51.9672348444 111% => OK
Elegance: 1.81578947368 1.8405768891 99% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.478188530394 0.441005458295 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.134530174725 0.135418324435 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0806524228717 0.0829849096947 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.660533450696 0.58762219726 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.160477877074 0.147661913831 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.242719718436 0.193483328276 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118235941201 0.0970749176394 122% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.376406624244 0.42659136922 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0308647597282 0.0774707102158 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.349178335761 0.312017818177 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0682604494019 0.0698173142475 98% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.87684729064 44% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 5.36822660099 37% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 8.0 14.657635468 55% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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More content wanted. For issue essays, around 450 words, for argument essays, around 400 words.
Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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