The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company. "Several recent surveys indicate that homeowners are increasingly eager to conserve energy. At the same time, manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, that are almost twice as energy efficient as those sold a decade ago. Also, new technologies for better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available to reduce the energy needed for home heating. Therefore, the total demand for electricity in our area will not increase—and may decline slightly. Since our three electric generating plants in operation for the past twenty years have always met our needs, the construction of new generating plants will not be necessary."
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 crux of the argument of the planning department was that it is no longer necessary to construct a new generating unit of electric plants as the homeowners conserve energy and companies were making energy-efficient products. The argument is based on unwarranted reasons and flawed for the following reasons.
Primarily, the author told that the most recent surveys revealed that homeowners tend to conserve energy and manufactures of home appliances are now making energy-efficient products. But, the author does not provide the purview of the survey or how many people were part of the survey or did the survey conducted on a specific place or whole city. Since the proper data was unavailable it is not feasible to predict that every household is ready to save energy.
The author also claimed that, since new technologies like better home insulation and solar heating are readily available the total demand for electricity might not increase, might be decline. But the conclusion was unfeasible, as new technologies cost might be exorbitant and not available to many people. Also, if many people were thinking that they have to save energy by installing new energy saving appliances and everyone install the airconditioned and refrigerator that might create a pressure on the old electric grid, even if the products were energy efficient but used ubiquitously.
The author claimed that the past generating plant is enough to meet the needs and the new generating unit does not necessary. But, it might be possible that the people had started to conserve energy because there was a shortage of electricity and because of that the companies in that area had started to manufacture new energy saving appliances. No survey had occurred on customer satisfaction with the electricity generating company. Since no data had been available on customer satisfaction it is unfeasible to conclude that the three generating plants were enough.
The above points conclude that the argument is based on unwarranted reasons and flawed. The argument failed to provide any convincing data that bolster the author claims that the construction of a new generating unit is unnecessary.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 348 350
No. of Characters: 1797 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.319 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.164 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.914 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.516 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.357 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.369 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.369 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 348, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...cted on a specific place or whole city. Since the proper data was unavailable it is n...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 436, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ith the electricity generating company. Since no data had been available on customer ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 233, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...f a new generating unit is unnecessary.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => 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: 1829.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 348.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25574712644 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96195516934 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462643678161 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 594.0 705.55239521 84% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.5017442615 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.642857143 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8571428571 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.21428571429 5.70786347227 21% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13051334311 0.218282227539 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0485554561061 0.0743258471296 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.048770642643 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0770426219466 0.128457276422 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0576943371117 0.0628817314937 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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