Homes in the northeastern United States, where winters are typically cold, have traditionally used oil as their major fuel for heating. Last year that region experienced twenty days with below-average temperatures, and local weather forecasters throughout

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Homes in the northeastern United States, where winters are typically cold, have traditionally used oil as their major fuel for heating. Last year that region experienced twenty days with below-average temperatures, and local weather forecasters throughout the region predict that this weather pattern will continue for several more years. Furthermore, many new homes have been built in this region during the past year. Because of these developments, we predict an increased demand for heating oil and recommend investment in Consolidated Industries, one of whose major business operations is the retail sale of home heating oil.

The argument states that harsh weather will increase demands for fuel and investment in related industries must be considered. However, it seems convincing on first glance that it would be a good idea but there are some underlying flaws and unstated assumptions that raise doubt about the author’s conclusion.

The argument relies upon what may account to a false analogy between increasing number of built houses and increasing demand for oils. For this to work, the author must consider that these new houses are completely similar to present houses and people need equal oil for heating themselves. In this case, the new houses might be very advanced that they do not need any fuel for heating, people may use renewable energies such as wind turbine and solar cells for generating electricity, then, using electric heater for heating.

The author unfairly assumes that increasing developed houses lead to an increase in fuel needs. However, no evidence is offered to substantiate the causality. For instance, nowadays there are smart homes. These advanced houses do not need to get energy from local power plants. They not only can provide their energy needs but also can sell electricity to the grid network. It means that these new houses can generate electricity for neighbor houses and they can use electric heater instead of demanding for oil for heating purposes.

In sum, the argument did not provide concrete evidence for his claim. If the author were to provide evidence regarding new houses and related technology used in them and the accuracy of the predication his argument was more convincing.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, regarding, so, then, for instance, such as

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: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 55.5748502994 40% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1363.0 2260.96107784 60% => OK
No of words: 263.0 441.139720559 60% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1825095057 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.56307096286 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57776730311 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.58174904943 0.468620217663 124% => OK
syllable_count: 426.6 705.55239521 60% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.943648002 57.8364921388 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.846153846 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2307692308 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => 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: 0.113620025634 0.218282227539 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0419903296034 0.0743258471296 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0350338844123 0.0701772020484 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0677723999037 0.128457276422 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0306392294348 0.0628817314937 49% => 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: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 98.500998004 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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