The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants.
"Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. This change, however, has had little impact on our customers. In fact, only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine."
In the memorandum from the business manager of happy pancake house restaurant, the author concludes that an average of 98 people out of 100 is happy with the change of butter with margarine. The author also states that many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. However, before this recommendation properly evaluated these questions must be answered.
First of all, why author assuming that who ask for butter will not complain or assume that who are getting margarine instead of butter will be happy? Maybe, peoples who are getting margarine instead of butter will not complain but in future they cannot come in restaurant and like this many peoples cannot come and this will definitely make loss of restaurant. Perhaps, people who are not getting butter can influence to other person that don’t go at that restaurant they have replaced butter with margarine. That will negative impact to the restaurant. If either scenarios are true then the author argument doesn’t hold water.
Secondly, why author assumes that customer can’t identify the taste of butter and margarine? There is possibility that customers like the margarine more than butter so because of this they are not complaining if they got. Maybe also there is possibility that they thought there is some problem and because of this they are getting margarine instead of butter.
Finally, maybe servers is not working and giving wrong data to author, maybe there is possibility that average of 98 people out of 100 don’t like margarine but because of error in server that came to author that people likes it. Also there is possibility that author seeing the data of customers who are coming after replacing butter with margarine only for several days (like 1-5 days) and that customer cannot come after 10 days or 15 days or even month if they don’t like.
In conclusion, as the argument as it stands now, it is considerably flawed due to its reliance on the several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the question above and offer more evidence, then it will be possible to evaluate the viability of the recommendation of replacing butter with margarine is success for restaurant.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 381 350
No. of Characters: 1838 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.418 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.824 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.514 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.849 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.375 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 554, 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.
...will negative impact to the restaurant. If either scenarios are true then the auth...
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Line 4, column 229, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...at came to author that people likes it. Also there is possibility that author seeing...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 13.6137724551 169% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => 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: 1887.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 377.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00530503979 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57710293143 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.445623342175 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 602.1 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.2625144013 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.8 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1333333333 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => 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: 0.183405435661 0.218282227539 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0680567025138 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0700536775317 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109935467529 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0778660682781 0.0628817314937 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.43 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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