The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a company that builds shopping malls around the country.
"The surface of a section of Route 101, paved just two years ago by Good Intentions Roadways, is now badly cracked with a number of dangerous potholes. In another part of the state, a section of Route 40, paved by Appian Roadways more than four years ago, is still in good condition. In a demonstration of their continuing commitment to quality, Appian Roadways recently purchased state-of-the-art paving machinery and hired a new quality-control manager. Therefore, I recommend hiring Appian Roadways to construct the access roads for all our new shopping malls. I predict that our Appian access roads will not have to be repaired for at least four years."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The vice president of a company suggests in his memo that Appian Roadways should be hired rather than Good Intentions Roadways to construct access roads for the company’s new shopping malls. He has supported his recommendation by comparing the road work done by the two companies and stating that Appian Roadways have recently purchased state-of-the-art paving machinery and hired a new quality control manager. However, his reasoning is based on many fallacious assumptions underlined below.
While comparing the road work done by the two companies, the vice president has presumed that Route 101 and Route 40 are same in all respect. He has however not provided any data to support his assumption. Route 101 could be an access road to a highway or a highway which heavy trucks and high-speed vehicles use regularly. On the contrary, Route 40 could be a road in the suburbs which is less frequented. Under such a condition, damage to Route 101 will surely be greater than to Route 40. Secondly, the environmental conditions of the regions where the roads are built also need to be considered. Route 101 could be a road along the coast or on a hill or areas prone to hurricanes. Natural calamities like large waves, landslides and hurricanes could have been responsible for the road damage. Unless the author clearly states that the two roads being compared are similar to each other in every respect, it would be erroneous to conclude the Appian Roadways built better and long lasting roads than Good Intentions Roadways.
The authors claim that Appian Roadways should be given the contract to construct access roads to malls based on their new purchase of instrument and newly hired quality control manager is also undermined by the fact that he has not provided any proof to indicate that the new instruments or the new employee are capable enough to do their job. The author should clarify how the new instrument will improve the construction work done by Appian Roadways. Previous work experience of the new quality control manager should also be provided to support his claim that the new employee has prior experience and good work ethics.
Before the company hires a roadwork agency to build access roads there are several other questions which should be considered, for example: Does any of the companies have prior experience of completing a job like this? Do the companies provide nationwide roadwork service? Do the companies have the work force required to pull off a large project like the one being offered? The author has failed to consider these crucial questions before concluding that Appian Roadways should be given the contract.
Lastly, the author has concluded that the roads built by Appian will last for four years. This again is based on the assumption that Route 40 and the access roads to the malls will be identical – however, there is no data to support this conclusion.
It is evident from the points discussed above that the recommendation is fallacious and based on numerous assumptions without any proof to support them. Unless the concerns raised are answered and substantiated with unbiased results comparing the work done by the two companies to greater details, it would be dubious to give the contract to Appian Roadworks and believe that the roads they construct will last for four years.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'however', 'if', 'lastly', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'while', 'for example', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.249158249158 0.25644967241 97% => OK
Verbs: 0.190235690236 0.15541462614 122% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0841750841751 0.0836205057962 101% => OK
Adverbs: 0.03367003367 0.0520304965353 65% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0252525252525 0.0272364105082 93% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0993265993266 0.125424944231 79% => OK
Participles: 0.0723905723906 0.0416121511921 174% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.67487414815 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0387205387205 0.026700313972 145% => OK
Particles: 0.0016835016835 0.001811407834 93% => OK
Determiners: 0.119528619529 0.113004496875 106% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0286195286195 0.0255425247493 112% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00841750841751 0.0127820249294 66% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3347.0 2731.13054187 123% => OK
No of words: 555.0 446.07635468 124% => OK
Chars per words: 6.03063063063 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.57801047555 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.351351351351 0.378187486979 93% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.272072072072 0.287650121315 95% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.196396396396 0.208842608468 94% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.124324324324 0.135150697306 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67487414815 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 207.018472906 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.425225225225 0.469332199767 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 49.7862267103 52.1807786196 95% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.039408867 115% => OK
Sentence length: 24.1304347826 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.8796778703 57.7814097925 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.52173913 141.986410481 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1304347826 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.434782608696 0.724660767414 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 51.3376419898 51.9672348444 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.68918918919 1.8405768891 92% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.399257617805 0.441005458295 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.134309812198 0.135418324435 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.080636191744 0.0829849096947 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.572140074033 0.58762219726 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.176663897165 0.147661913831 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170184151925 0.193483328276 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0932877869807 0.0970749176394 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.43360753446 0.42659136922 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0499134057484 0.0774707102158 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.285771515023 0.312017818177 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.044259481117 0.0698173142475 63% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.33743842365 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.87684729064 29% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.82512315271 145% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 6.46551724138 201% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 5.36822660099 37% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.82389162562 248% => OK
Total topic words: 22.0 14.657635468 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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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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