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.
According to the given reading passage, Nature’s Way, a franchise selling health-related products, is aiming to open a store in Plainsville. It argues that Plainsville is a proper target as it seems that the residents put significant importance on healthy lives. However, it seems there are unstated assumptions, which might weaken the state if those cannot be properly explained.
Firstly, sales of exercise-related products do not always mean the residents’ healthy lives. Exercise clothing is so comfortable that many people wear it not only during exercising but also in everyday life. For example, many students wear leggings, which are originally made for running or aerobics, when they go to school. Moreover, people wear running shoes everyday as it is light with less fatigues to their feet. Therefore, high sales of running shoes and exercising clothing hardly support the town residents’ healthy lives.
Secondly, if the town residents’ eager to live healthy lives, they might already take health-related products for their health. Many people who consider their health usually intake nutrition supplements regularly such as vitamin C or iron. If lots of residents already have certain stores where they regularly buy health-related products, it might be hard to attract customers.
Thirdly, the financial state of Plainsville’s residents might not be enough to spend money on enrollment in children’s exercise programs. If a large portion of residents of that county is unaffordable to participate in the programs, although there are many potential customers, it will not result in what they expected.
To sum up, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on unwarranted assumptions. If the writer cannot explain the aspects stated above properly, the argument will not be able to be considered credible.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 288 350
No. of Characters: 1519 1500
No. of Different Words: 168 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.12 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.274 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.92 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 3.563 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.867 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.327 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.327 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.08 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 362, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...ol. Moreover, people wear running shoes everyday as it is light with less fatigues to th...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 391, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun fatigues is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ning shoes everyday as it is light with less fatigues to their feet. Therefore, high...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, for example, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 55.5748502994 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1585.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 288.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50347222222 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10315668382 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.597222222222 0.468620217663 127% => OK
syllable_count: 479.7 705.55239521 68% => 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: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 20.8578256031 57.8364921388 36% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 105.666666667 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 5.70786347227 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201366242393 0.218282227539 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0663606600669 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0879738784832 0.0701772020484 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110069489821 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0826863922256 0.0628817314937 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.5979740519 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => 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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