Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville. The store should prove to be very successful: Nature's Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, and clearly Plainsville is such an area. Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. The local health club has more members than ever, and the weight training and aerobics classes are always full. Finally, Plainsville's schoolchildren represent a new generation of potential customers: these schoolchildren are required to participate in a fitness-for-life program, which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise at an early age.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted
In the argument given, it is stated that Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville have instead advocated that it should prove to be very successful. They have come to this conclusion based on Nature’s way trend that it tends to be most profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, and clearly Plainsville is such an area. However, before this statement can be properly evaluated, three question must be answered.
First, it might be possible that there is already a chain of stores selling healthy food and other health related products on which the residents of Plainsville rely. In other words Nature’s way may have a different kind of competitions and circumstances in Plainsville. Furthermore, it is possible that the residents of Plainsville may feel reluctant to try new store than they are already accustom to existing stores. If these scenarios has merit, then conclusion drawn in original argument is significantly weakened.
Second, what if the discounts have been offered on sales of running shoes and clothes, club membership, weight training and aerobic classes? The author prematurely assumes that because the residents of Plainsville live healthy lives they are very penchant towards health kind of stuffs such as running shoes, weight training classes etc. However this might not be the case. Perhaps the short term discounts may have augmented the sales or the club membership etc. therefore it may lead to short terms profits. If above is true, then argument doesn’t hold water.
Third, it is assume that schoolchildren are potential customers because they are required to participate in fitness for life program but what if only few students shows affinity toward fitness for life program. For instance, it is possible that majority of children’s parents don’t allow their child to indulge in fitness program or keeping study as their imperative goal. Therefore until and unless a new evidence is provided , the conclusion is flawed.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stand now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to offer more evidence (perhaps in the form of a systematic research study), then it will be possible to fully evaluate the feasibility of the argumetnt.
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: 384 350
No. of Characters: 1941 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.427 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.055 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.773 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 139 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.165 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.875 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.305 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.305 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.046 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 14, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'assumed'.
Suggestion: assumed
...ument doesn’t hold water. Third, it is assume that schoolchildren are potential custo...
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Line 4, column 373, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...keeping study as their imperative goal. Therefore until and unless a new evidence is prov...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 426, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...il and unless a new evidence is provided , the conclusion is flawed. In conclusio...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, then, therefore, third, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1999.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 382.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23298429319 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86588940162 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552356020942 0.468620217663 118% => OK
syllable_count: 607.5 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.9006277608 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.055555556 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2222222222 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.55555555556 5.70786347227 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.351265971367 0.218282227539 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0902619840729 0.0743258471296 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.150964137212 0.0701772020484 215% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180646301829 0.128457276422 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.209704592368 0.0628817314937 333% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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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