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.
The prompt supports the idea from the planning department to avoid construction of a new energy generating plants as they have guessed that there are three electric generating plants would be enough to serve the purpose. Although the planning department has given smattering of logical reasoning to come to the conclusion, however many logical flaws inflicted the assumptions that underlie the argument. These premises are mentioned hereafter followed by clarifications.
To begin with - the department believes that most of the home owners will avail the energy efficient home appliances. However, it is nowhere been clearly mentioned about the price of those energy efficient appliances. May be they are too much costly to buy or may not be. It might be the case that the home owner and the habitants are actually willing to buy those accessories but have not been able to because of the high price. Although it is also plausible that those are not out of the limit of the habitants and thus the idea of conserving energy can be brought into play quickly, there is no evidence or assurance of it in the prompt. If it is the case then there will be no problem in avoiding the construction of a new energy plant. But it will not be the same if the probation goes otherwise.
Coming to the second - the statement of the department that - " better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available" is somewhat vogue in itself. It has not been cleared by the department wheather it is talking about the efficacy of the accessories or the availablity of those to the habitants and home owners. If it is turned out to be the second case then that is absolutely fine for the company to rise on its plan of conserving energy. But what happens if the department is prevaricating the about the moneable perspectives and thus regards to only about the former one? If it is so then it will not add any extra logic not to build another energy plant. Apart from that - if the earlier one possess more weight then similar explaination will suffice here as it is given in the second parable - lack of sources and evidences about the solvency of the home owner in buying those energy efficient appliances.
Another and most importantly the impairing one - that the department in its austere way believes that the population of their are covergae will be remain same for the whole process. Even if their are coverage does not change, they are quite to hast to believe that new habitants will not come to their area and ther might be enough increase in energy consumption that they might find it hard to manage. However, the case can be turned out into other way too - but again there is no clear declaration of the possiblity. Moreover, the department also quite readily believed that - there three electric generating plants will not be susceptble to any kind of damage in the coming days as they have already served for long time of twenty years. However, closely looking at this fact - isn't it a oxymoron itself? What if the three energy generating plants could not maintain the pressure of increasing demadns of energy if there us any surge of consumers in the run? Even leaving the uprise of consumers, what is the guarantee that the three pkants will continue to serve in the same way that they have done for the past twenty years? There might be no possiblity, however, might be - but again sufficient evidences and assurance is demanded.
So, looking at all the factors and points aforementioned - it might be too fast ot decide upon the fact that the company will not require any construction of a new energy plant becasue of their available resources. Best way to conduct upon it will be to answer the questions asked in the passage; providing sufficient reasoning and evidences which lack much in the prompt. Only after that a concrete decision can be taken wheather a new energy construction plant is needed to be built or not.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 15 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 20 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 682 350
No. of Characters: 3189 1500
No. of Different Words: 276 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.11 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.676 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.567 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 208 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 157 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 109 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 75 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.259 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.399 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.815 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.278 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.463 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.047 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 184, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this energy' or 'those energies'?
Suggestion: this energy; those energies
...en clearly mentioned about the price of those energy efficient appliances. May be they are t...
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Line 3, column 219, Rule ID: MAY_BE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maybe' (=perhaps)?
Suggestion: Maybe
...e of those energy efficient appliances. May be they are too much costly to buy or may ...
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Line 3, column 642, 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.
...dence or assurance of it in the prompt. If it is the case then there will be no pr...
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Line 5, column 605, 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.
...s regards to only about the former one? If it is so then it will not add any extra...
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Line 5, column 746, Rule ID: LESS_MORE_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'than'?
Suggestion: than
... if the earlier one possess more weight then similar explaination will suffice here ...
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Line 5, column 906, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this energy' or 'those energies'?
Suggestion: this energy; those energies
...he solvency of the home owner in buying those energy efficient appliances. Another and mo...
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Line 7, column 121, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
...ere way believes that the population of their are covergae will be remain same for th...
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Line 7, column 191, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
...ain same for the whole process. Even if their are coverage does not change, they are ...
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Line 7, column 585, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...also quite readily believed that - there three electric generating plants will no...
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Line 7, column 783, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...However, closely looking at this fact - isnt it a oxymoron itself? What if the three...
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Line 7, column 791, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... closely looking at this fact - isnt it a oxymoron itself? What if the three ener...
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Line 7, column 977, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...e of consumers in the run? Even leaving the uprise of consumers, what is the guarantee tha...
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Line 9, column 84, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (ot) must be used with a third-person verb: 'decides'.
Suggestion: decides
...forementioned - it might be too fast ot decide upon the fact that the company will not...
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Line 9, column 216, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: ' the Best'.
Suggestion: The Best
...t becasue of their available resources. Best way to conduct upon it will be to answe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, then, thus, apart from, kind of, talking about, to begin with, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 45.0 19.6327345309 229% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 28.8173652695 191% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 82.0 55.5748502994 148% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3267.0 2260.96107784 144% => OK
No of words: 682.0 441.139720559 155% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79032258065 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.11029644095 4.56307096286 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66556154209 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 204.123752495 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.409090909091 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1045.8 705.55239521 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2987397441 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.0 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2592592593 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.37037037037 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 8.20758483034 219% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.15535943501 0.218282227539 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0484607564794 0.0743258471296 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0403221440595 0.0701772020484 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.098190786246 0.128457276422 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368454830758 0.0628817314937 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 98.500998004 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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