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, the author posits that Nature's Way would make more profit if it opens another store in Plainsville. The author comes to this conclusion based on sundry presuppositions, which if correct could indicate that the argument holds water. Nevertheless, as it stands now, this conclusion leans on three unjustifiable premises that diminish the credibility of the recommendation.
First of all, the author assumes that most residents of Plainsville rely on health related products to live healthily. In this way, the author is assuming a directly causal correlation between the healthy lifestyle of the residents of Plainsville and increase patronage of the Nature's Way products. What if the locals actually depend on other natural means such as herbal products which are not available in Nature's Way businesses? Or maybe the locales are peasant farmers with no financial means to buy products from their franchise? This will definitely weakens the assumption thereby rendering their proposed franchise unpropitious.
Furthermore, the authors assumes that the report from Plainsville's traders of increase in sales of health related products was true and substantial enough.Such rise in sales of these products could arise from residents of neighboring town. Maybe residents of a neighboring town where such products are scarce are buying more to resell to their locale customers for the mean time. In any case, this rise is ephemeral in nature and would not constitute a viable reason for the establishment of another store in Plainsville.
The author states that the locale gym membership's rise will guarantee profitability. In this case, the author believes most residents of the town are into gym another physical exercises which requires these products. What if there were only five participants in the gym before this report, and suddenly it changes to ten? Will such rise justify a need to create another store in the town? It maybe the rise is temporarily due to peculiar cold weather in the town which entails residents come to gym and such weather condition will vanish just within a month.
While the creation of a new store at Plainsville may be a good idea due to certain conditions, the author assumptions are are unwarrantedand does not justify a need to build another franchise in the town. More improvements are required to warrant such action.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 381 350
No. of Characters: 1960 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.418 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.144 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.865 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.167 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.654 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.324 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.559 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.087 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
... based on sundry presuppositions, which if correct could indicate that the argumen...
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Line 3, column 557, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'weaken'
Suggestion: weaken
...m their franchise? This will definitely weakens the assumption thereby rendering their ...
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Line 5, column 156, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Such
...roducts was true and substantial enough.Such rise in sales of these products could a...
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Line 7, column 560, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...dition will vanish just within a month. While the creation of a new store at Pla...
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Line 9, column 119, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: are
...tain conditions, the author assumptions are are unwarrantedand does not justify a need ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, furthermore, if, may, nevertheless, so, while, such as, first of all, in any case
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2001.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 380.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26578947368 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93973989277 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.505263157895 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 622.8 705.55239521 88% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => 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: 44.8678787465 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.166666667 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1111111111 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.44444444444 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232922430929 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0724394085892 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0644308193017 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130260738891 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0642591610174 0.0628817314937 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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