The government in Littleville plans to build a large mall in a newly constructed zone just outside the city. Littleville hopes to attract many wealthy clients who it believes will shop at the Littleville Mall's many planned boutique stores. Ten years ago, Bigsburgh, a city in the same province, built an upscale mall in its fashionable downtown district. The mall was an instant success, so Littleville Mall can expect a similar return on revenue in the first year of its opening. So you can see here that, okay, we have this argument statement. It's lot much longer than the issue, and it's making certain assumptions.
The following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. Primarily, the argument is based on the unwarranted assumption that the city of Littleville and Bigsburg are the same, rendering its main conclusion, that the littleville mall will follow the success of bigsburg’s mall, invalid.
The argument fails to provide any justification that two cities are similar in terms of their respective populations. For one, the residents of Bigsburgh may be wealthier than those of Littleville. This important difference could explain the success of bigsburgh’s mall. More significantly, the argument states that the Littleville’s mall hopes to attract wealthy clientele. If Littleville is a middle or lower class city, then the assumption that wealthy customers will patron the store is without basis. Had the argument provided information regarding the similarity in the income levels of the two cities residents. Even then, the argument would have to further prove that, like the citizen of Bigsburgh, those of littleville are likely to spend money at a mall.
The argument also leaves many other unanswered questions. Even if the residents of Littleville are wealthy enough to patron boutique stores, they are not necessarily likely to travel to a newly constructed zone. Nonetheless, the argument assumes that because residents of Bigsburgh frequented a mall in a fashionable central location area that the residents of Littleville, even if they are likely to spend, will make a trip to zone outside the city. …
Finally, the argument claims without warrant that what held true ten years ago will hold true today. So, even if we assume that the residents of Littleville are similar to those of Bigsburgh, the argument is still lacking because it does not provide information to show that the general economic climate has not changed.
Because the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to make a convincing case that Littleville’s mall will mirror the success of the one in bigsburg.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 315 350
No. of Characters: 1641 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.213 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.21 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.88 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 121 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.688 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.809 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.432 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.614 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.22 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, if, may, nonetheless, regarding, so, still, then, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 11.1786427146 18% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1703.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 316.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38924050633 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02003371989 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.53164556962 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 530.1 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.8513036442 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.533333333 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0666666667 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.266528005678 0.218282227539 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0926348363732 0.0743258471296 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.073129906406 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150973138107 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385081828519 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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