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"Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States.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."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
In the memorandum the business manager states that, replacing butter by margarine has little impact on their customers. He asserts that customers do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term butter to refer to either butter or margarine. To support this idea he states that only 2 percent has complained about the change. also customers who ask for butter do not complain after getting margarine instead. Before evaluating these facts the manager need to give some logical explanation about some topics.
First of all The managers assumes that only 2 percent customers complained about the change means others are not able to distinguish between butter and margarine. He can not overlook the possibility that may be the customers liked the taste of margarine more than butter. For that reason most of them did not raise any objection. If this assumption has merit, then the argument is significantly weakened.
Another reason can be true which is customers who did not complain after getting margarine instead of butter, are not interested in creating a scene. But they can stop going to the restaurants for not getting the previous taste. If it is true the argument does not hold water.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now, is flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. The manager must substantiate the assumptions and give logical explanation . Then the argument can be evaluated properly.
Comments
e-rater score report
No. of Words: 235 350
Minimum 250 words wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 235 350
No. of Characters: 1181 1500
No. of Different Words: 129 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.915 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.026 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.697 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 88 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 66 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.786 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.494 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.344 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.5 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.132 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 340, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...ercent has complained about the change. also customers who ask for butter do not com...
^^^^
Line 1, column 340, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: also,
...ercent has complained about the change. also customers who ask for butter do not com...
^^^^
Line 1, column 423, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Before” 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.
...mplain after getting margarine instead. Before evaluating these facts the manager need...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 230, 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.
...nts for not getting the previous taste. If it is true the argument does not hold w...
^^
Line 6, column 187, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...assumptions and give logical explanation . Then the argument can be evaluated prop...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, so, then, in conclusion, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 55.5748502994 45% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1211.0 2260.96107784 54% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 235.0 441.139720559 53% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15319148936 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.56307096286 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77330751253 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 204.123752495 65% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.565957446809 0.468620217663 121% => OK
syllable_count: 378.0 705.55239521 54% => syllable counts are too short.
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: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => 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: 15.0 22.8473053892 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.3398699279 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.7333333333 119.503703932 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.6666666667 23.324526521 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.46666666667 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160095966876 0.218282227539 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0542913658232 0.0743258471296 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0705591252802 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0867012648728 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0655281264121 0.0628817314937 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 48.3550499002 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 98.500998004 50% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.1389221557 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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