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 memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company suggesting the total demand for electricity in their area will not increase—and may decline slightly is full of flaws and based on very weak assumptions and they have made that on the basis of new efficient technological growth and increasing awareness of people regarding conservation of energy .
Firstly company is assuming that home owners are more aware than past based on a several recent study but which study? Who took that surveys? were those surveys reliable or authorized?, how much people they studied? Etc. so many unclear answers and we can't certainly say anything without knowing the validity of those surveys. If it is proven still home owners are not the only one who are consuming energy, other family members are also consuming energy and mostly home owners are one who are going for the job and not being in home in most of the day time so we can’t say that as they are aware the energy consumption will decrease.
secondly company assumes that new appliances are twice efficient true but before a decade there were no air conditioners and today myriad numbers of new electrical appliances are there in a market, for example now we are having an electrical scooter and electrical burner, hair dryer, smart phones, washing machine etc. All these appliances are increasing our electrical consumption by being the important part of our day to day life. Due to air conditioner and washing machine we are supposed to use a three phase connection and it consumes greater energy than any one phase appliance.
Thirdly there is not specified that which season is running or which one is going to come so for example if winter is running and summer is going to come naturally the consumption of air conditioner and other cooling appliances like water cooler and fan will suddenly rise and more energy demand will be there so one can't say without knowing the current season that what will happen next.
Fourthly though the better home insulation and passive solar heating is available due to increasing population more number of people are coming to live in cities. In which regions these surveys were taken? Nothing specified so it may happen that due to increasing number of people and high rise building overall consumption will increase and though from past twenty years the three plants were enough but it may happen that the new plant will be necessary in a short time.
In general in the memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company who states that there will no need of extra source of power is based on abysmal assumptions and without knowing certain answers one can't agree with this argument.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... people regarding conservation of energy . Firstly company is assuming that ho...
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Suggestion: Were
...but which study? Who took that surveys? were those surveys reliable or authorized?, ...
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Suggestion: many
...se surveys reliable or authorized?, how much people they studied? Etc. so many uncle...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...ed? Etc. so many unclear answers and we cant certainly say anything without knowing ...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Secondly
...e energy consumption will decrease. secondly company assumes that new appliances are...
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Line 7, column 319, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...more energy demand will be there so one cant say without knowing the current season ...
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Line 11, column 221, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...and without knowing certain answers one cant agree with this argument.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'still', 'third', 'thirdly', 'for example', 'in general']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.257731958763 0.25644967241 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.183505154639 0.15541462614 118% => OK
Adjectives: 0.103092783505 0.0836205057962 123% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0494845360825 0.0520304965353 95% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0288659793814 0.0272364105082 106% => OK
Prepositions: 0.121649484536 0.125424944231 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0701030927835 0.0416121511921 168% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.5575936824 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0164948453608 0.026700313972 62% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0721649484536 0.113004496875 64% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0247422680412 0.0255425247493 97% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.020618556701 0.0127820249294 161% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2735.0 2731.13054187 100% => OK
No of words: 460.0 446.07635468 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.94565217391 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.57801047555 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.352173913043 0.378187486979 93% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.254347826087 0.287650121315 88% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.152173913043 0.208842608468 73% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.110869565217 0.135150697306 82% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5575936824 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 207.018472906 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476086956522 0.469332199767 101% => OK
Word variations: 53.6596707087 52.1807786196 103% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.039408867 75% => OK
Sentence length: 30.6666666667 23.2022227129 132% => OK
Sentence length SD: 124.024979563 57.7814097925 215% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 182.333333333 141.986410481 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.6666666667 23.2022227129 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.724660767414 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 3.58251231527 195% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 56.1014492754 51.9672348444 108% => OK
Elegance: 1.71653543307 1.8405768891 93% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.372876156125 0.441005458295 85% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0950923286133 0.135418324435 70% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0594298657205 0.0829849096947 72% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.558957532983 0.58762219726 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.305982098813 0.147661913831 207% => Sentences are changing often in a paragraphs.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136638066341 0.193483328276 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0945597067625 0.0970749176394 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.235072390423 0.42659136922 55% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.037106393519 0.0774707102158 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226186787231 0.312017818177 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0915025774398 0.0698173142475 131% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.87684729064 29% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 5.36822660099 19% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 14.657635468 68% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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