The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of Movies Galore, a chain of movie-rental stores.
"In order to stop the recent decline in our profits, we must reduce operating expenses at Movies Galore's ten movie-rental stores. Since we are famous for our special bargains, raising our rental prices is not a viable way to improve profits. Last month our store in downtown Marston significantly decreased its operating expenses by closing at 6:00 P.M. rather than 9:00 P.M. and by reducing its stock by eliminating all movies released more than five years ago. By implementing similar changes in our other stores, Movies Galore can increase profits without jeopardizing our reputation for offering great movies at low prices."
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.
In this memo, the author of Movies Galore concludes that in order to increase profits without jeopardizing their reputation for offering great movies at low prices, reducing the operating expenses of store and eliminating the more than five year old movies from stores stocks. However, the owner's argument is problematic in several critical aspects.
Firstly, the argument depends upon the hasty assumption that to increase the profit of movie-rental store, store should reduce their operating expenses. Despite the fact of increasing operating expenses leads, huge amount of profit and revenue from it. Though, Movie rental store is famous for special bargains, increasing in rental cost of movie would not make it harder for their customers and make some lucrative.
Secondly, the owner of movie rental store compare the facts of its one of the store in downtown of Marston without mentioning any reason for it. Though Marston's movie rental store reduced operating expenses, store does not talk about the profit. How much profit is made? either increased or decreased situation. Moreover, movie store reduces the stocks of its more than five-year old movies.Even so reducing both factors, owner cannot prove the profit of Marston's store.
Thirdly, by adopting the above two mentioned strategies in current store. it does not assures that reducing operating expenses and eliminating old movies, will increase a substantial amount of profit. In other words, Owner does not assures the profitable decision for current situation of the store.
In summary, the argument is not persuasive as it stand. To bolster the argument owner of movie rental store should cites quantitative approach with results, for evaluating and to get the better results.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 291, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'owners'' or 'owner's'?
Suggestion: owners'; owner's
...movies from stores stocks. However, the owners argument is problematic in several crit...
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Line 3, column 271, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Either
...ut the profit. How much profit is made? either increased or decreased situation. Moreo...
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Line 3, column 391, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Even
...s of its more than five-year old movies.Even so reducing both factors, owner cannot ...
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Line 4, column 74, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... mentioned strategies in current store. it does not assures that reducing operatin...
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Line 4, column 86, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'assure'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: assure
...trategies in current store. it does not assures that reducing operating expenses and el...
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Line 4, column 86, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'assure'
Suggestion: assure
...trategies in current store. it does not assures that reducing operating expenses and el...
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Line 4, column 232, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'assure'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: assure
... profit. In other words, Owner does not assures the profitable decision for current sit...
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Line 4, column 232, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'assure'
Suggestion: assure
... profit. In other words, Owner does not assures the profitable decision for current sit...
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Line 5, column 50, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'stands'?
Suggestion: stands
...y, the argument is not persuasive as it stand. To bolster the argument owner of movie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, even so, in summary, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 19.6327345309 20% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 13.6137724551 22% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1477.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 274.0 441.139720559 62% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39051094891 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57632439468 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.547445255474 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 60.6931810191 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4666666667 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2666666667 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.2 5.70786347227 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.238108200121 0.218282227539 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.086600158823 0.0743258471296 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0782903820769 0.0701772020484 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156286999209 0.128457276422 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0723475534948 0.0628817314937 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.