The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company. "Several recent surveys indicate that home owners 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, 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.
In the menorandum from the planning department of an electric company, it is stated that need of new genrating plant in their area is not necessary since demand of power in that area will not increase and need of power may decline slightly. author come to this conclsuion based on the results of some surveys that state home owners are now egar to conserve energy and avialiblity of energy efficient home appliances in market. Final conclusion of author is based on the series of stated and unstated assumptuion which need to be examin properly with the help of evidences. Following are the three assumption considered in the argument which need to examin.
First assumption that author made is result of the survey in full correct and all the residence of that area is covered in the survey. No evidence provided that survey is fully authentic and we can relie on the results of survey. it may be possible that people who are conducting that survey will not be fully aware about the topic of survey and may be question asked in the survey in not relvent to the enegy conservation. also, no evidence presented that all the residence of that area is covered. it is possible that only some people of some part of area is covered and based on that author is reaching on conclusion for complete area. if eaither of scenario is true then it will easily weakened the conclusion of author.
also, author conclusion depends on the current market scenario of home appliance manufactures. authors assumed that if home appliance manufactures are making energy efficent home appilance like rgefrigerators and air conditioners then people are also buying same and insatalling in their respective home. it may be a case that new enery efficient appliances are very expensive due to which only few home owner can afford them. if this case has a potential then argument will not hold water.
Last but not the least, author also considered that energy need for home heating will reduce due to radily avialable passive solar heating and new technologies for better home insulation. Again no evidence are given that people are using new technologies for better home insulation and they are using solar energy.
may be new technologie for home insulation not develpoed fully to make it use. also, home of people is not suitable for passive solar heating. if any of above point is true then any one can easily raise question on authors conclusion.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is considerably flawed due to it reliance on the unwarrrented assumption. if author can provied more evidence (perhaps in the form of systematic reaserach form)for authenticity of survey, actual consumption of new enery efficent home appliance and use of new technologies & solare energy for home heating then only it possible to fully evaluate viability of authors conclusion of requirment of new generating plant in their area.
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: 11 15
No. of Words: 489 350
No. of Characters: 2377 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.702 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.861 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.669 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 44.455 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 27.566 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.418 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.756 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.212 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 242, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Author
...and need of power may decline slightly. author come to this conclsuion based on the re...
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... we can relie on the results of survey. it may be possible that people who are con...
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Suggestion: Also
... not relvent to the enegy conservation. also, no evidence presented that all the res...
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... the residence of that area is covered. it is possible that only some people of so...
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Suggestion: If
...aching on conclusion for complete area. if eaither of scenario is true then it wil...
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Line 5, column 640, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “if” 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.
...aching on conclusion for complete area. if eaither of scenario is true then it wil...
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Line 5, column 691, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'weaken'
Suggestion: weaken
...of scenario is true then it will easily weakened the conclusion of author. also, a...
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Suggestion: Also
...eakened the conclusion of author. also, author conclusion depends on the curre...
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Suggestion: Authors
...cenario of home appliance manufactures. authors assumed that if home appliance manufact...
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Suggestion: It
...d insatalling in their respective home. it may be a case that new enery efficient ...
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Suggestion: If
...ch only few home owner can afford them. if this case has a potential then argument...
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Message: “if” 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.
...ch only few home owner can afford them. if this case has a potential then argument...
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Suggestion: May
...tion and they are using solar energy. may be new technologie for home insulation ...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...ion not develpoed fully to make it use. also, home of people is not suitable for pas...
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Line 15, column 144, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...not suitable for passive solar heating. if any of above point is true then any one...
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Line 15, column 144, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “if” 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.
...not suitable for passive solar heating. if any of above point is true then any one...
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Line 15, column 179, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'anyone'?
Suggestion: anyone
...ing. if any of above point is true then any one can easily raise question on authors c...
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Line 15, column 190, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... of above point is true then any one can easily raise question on authors conclus...
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Line 19, column 120, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...eliance on the unwarrrented assumption. if author can provied more evidence perhap...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, then, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2439.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 489.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98773006135 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71956215698 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.427402862986 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 804.6 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.2892324422 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.142857143 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2857142857 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.38095238095 5.70786347227 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 19.0 5.25449101796 362% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192742514676 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0589914892372 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0555876558074 0.0701772020484 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106880045027 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.056483187346 0.0628817314937 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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