A movie producer sent the following memo to the head of the movie studio.
“We need to increase the funding for the movie Working Title by 10% in order to ensure a quality product. As you know, we are working with a first-time director, whose only previous experience has been shooting commercials for a shampoo company. Since the advertising business is notoriously wasteful, it stands to reason that our director will expect to be able to shoot take after take, without concern for how much time is being spent on any one scene. In addition, while we have saved money by hiring relatively inexperienced assistant producers and directors, this savings in salary will undoubtedly translate to greater expenditures in paying the actors and unionized crew overtime for the extra hours they will spend on the set waiting for the assistant directors and producers to arrange things. If we don’t get this extra money, the movie is virtually assured to be a failure.”
The given argument suggests that the funding should be increased for a movie by 10% to ensure a quality product and its success. Along the way towards a conclusion, the argument makes several implicit and explicit assumptions. We further consider each of them one by one.
It states that we are working with a first-time director who only has previous experience of shooting commercials for a shampoo company. Hence, it delimits the domain knowledge and understanding of the director based on his work experience. In addition, it states that the advertising business is notoriously wasteful; hence ...
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 464 350
No. of Characters: 2367 1500
No. of Different Words: 235 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.641 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.101 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.784 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 148 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 102 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.421 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.28 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.474 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.551 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.104 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 438, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ectors and producers to arrange things. Thus this assumption eliminates the possibil...
^^^^
Line 7, column 149, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...assure that the movie is not a failure. Therefore in the closing statement the assumption...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, well, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 28.8173652695 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2412.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 464.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19827586207 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82469035374 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 204.123752495 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51724137931 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 762.3 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.6353880088 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.947368421 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4210526316 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.36842105263 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283025162709 0.218282227539 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.089424890798 0.0743258471296 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687451688038 0.0701772020484 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158129904485 0.128457276422 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0466187870467 0.0628817314937 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 98.500998004 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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