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.
Nature's Way is a chain of stores selling health food and health-related products. They plan on opening a new franchise in Plainsville and predict it to be a successful venture. The reasons cited for the success of Nature's Way in Plainsville are listed in the prompt above. Firstly, the sale of running shoes and exercise clothing are at an all time high. Secondly, the local health-club has the highest member count currently. Lastly, the school children are required to participate in a fitness-for life program which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise. These evidence imply that Nature's Way would be a success in Plainsville and they seem legible during the first read. But close scrutiny unearths dubious relations and premise that might call into question the success of Nature's Way in Plainsville.
Firstly, the sale of health food and health-realted products are attributed to the increase in sale of shoes and exercise clothing. It is true that the increase in buyers of shoes and exercise clothing points towards increase in the number of people who will indulge in physical activities. But it does not mean that these people will invest in health-related products as well. To perform physical activities, like sports and exercise, proper attire is a requisite. On the other hand, health-related food is not necessary at all. It is possible that the residents of Plainsville are adept enough to make healty food at their home. This could mean that opening a franchise of Nature's Way at Plainsville would actually be a failure.
Secondly, the local health-club membership has registered a record number of memberships that it currently has at the club. The reason for this could be the improvement in service that the club provides to its customers that has stimulated more and more people to join the club. Another reason could be the decrease in membership fees as a result of an ongoing scheme. These instances could mean that comparing the success of Nature's Way in Plainsville to the increase in members at the local health club are unwarranted. It is also possible that an in-house cafe at the club provides healthy-food as part of the membership, which could mean that the success of Nature's Way at Plainsville is highly unlikely.
Additionally, the student of Plainsville are required to take part in a program that has been started to make children realize the benefits of exercise at an early age. This is a good initiative to promote exercise amongst children. It is possible that the children take up different forms of physical activities. But it is by no means certain that the kids will indulge in healthy food. No one can predict such an outcome since the minds of children sway form one thing to another and their likeness for healthy food cannot be categorically substantiated.
In sum, the evidences and premises provided in the prompt above are hollow and have no base to them. The evidences are unwarranted and since the conclusion stands upon such baseless evidences. It is not assured if the franchise of Nature's Way would be a success in Plainsville.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 517 350
No. of Characters: 2539 1500
No. of Different Words: 218 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.768 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.911 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.816 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 187 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 154 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 111 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.464 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.913 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.536 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.288 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.474 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 686, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'scrutiny'.
Suggestion: scrutiny
...seem legible during the first read. But close scrutiny unearths dubious relations and premise ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, well, as a result, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 76.0 55.5748502994 137% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 16.3942115768 18% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2586.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 517.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00193423598 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87407029688 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.431334622824 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 803.7 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.5838783663 57.8364921388 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.3571428571 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4642857143 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 8.20758483034 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.335118256631 0.218282227539 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0992442193737 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112446762175 0.0701772020484 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189609047672 0.128457276422 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11385891008 0.0628817314937 181% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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