The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants.
"Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. Only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that 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 cannot distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine. Thus, to avoid the expense of purchasing butter and to increase profitability, the Happy Pancake House should extend this cost-saving change to its restaurants in the southeast and northeast as well."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author is presumptuous in the conclusion with simplifying 2 percent of customers’ complains that it does not matter that change the butter to margarine in their pancake. Not only his analysis of the public acceptance of the replacement is very rough, but his conclusion also full of doubts. If his answers can be reasonable to those questions, he needs to further clarify the different areas of the U.S. have the same reflection, the 2 percent complain are extremely low, and lowering the expense of purchase is the only effective option to improve their business profit.
To begin, the autho...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 497 350
No. of Characters: 2497 1500
No. of Different Words: 224 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.722 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.024 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.605 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 191 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 142 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 71 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.158 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.184 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.322 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.529 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.086 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 7, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...after they changed the butter. Also, the replace of butter can put into effect because t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, for instance, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2575.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 497.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18108651911 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76838354776 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 204.123752495 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472837022133 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 792.0 705.55239521 112% => 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: 17.0 8.76447105788 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.9759702964 57.8364921388 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.526315789 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1578947368 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.63157894737 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.1442982693 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0457854626963 0.0743258471296 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0408601842594 0.0701772020484 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0832508874674 0.128457276422 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0161985538822 0.0628817314937 26% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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