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 this argument, the arguer declares that the Plainsvilles schoolchildren will tend to join their program called Fitness for Life, which bloster regular exercise at an early age. To justify the anticipation, the arguer points out an example involving the sales of running shoes, exercise equipment and the popularity of the local health club. With a series of unwarranted and poor evidences and holes, however, the argument fails to be convincing as it stands.
First of all, it is unreasonable that the arguer suppose that the sales of exercise equipment equal to the popularity of excercise among the citizens living in Plainsville. More people prefer to running or jogging, which contributes to increasing sales on running shoes. However, we cannot assert that such phenomenon was caused because many people love running. In reality, if store in this area only sale running shoes without other types of shoes, the people are accustomed to wear running shoes rather than other types. Therefore, if the arguer should provide more credible data about the sales of running shoes among all types of shoes, the proposed argument would be significantly strengthened.
Furthermore, it is unfair to assume that many people in Plainsville will tend to join the exercise in the future, since the local health club almost closed during five years. On the contrary, the business status of the local health club infer that only few people prefer to regular sport in this area. If the arguer ignore the above facts, the negative effects will influence the profit of his stores.
Additionally, even if the aforementioned assumptions are accepted, the arugment merely relies on the assumption that the need of the children exercise cannot be supported by convincing and plausible evidence. In fact, we cannot obtain the relationship between the participation of adults and adolescents now. Thereby, hastily carrying out such recommendation of openning new store in Plainsville would lead to unprodicted negative effects.
Overall, the arger should provide more incredible information about the data from the local exercise among different people.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 337 350
No. of Characters: 1756 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.285 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.211 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.752 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.467 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.76 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.345 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.345 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 195, Rule ID: PREFER_TO_VBG[1]
Message: Did you mean 'run'?
Suggestion: run
...g in Plainsville. More people prefer to running or jogging, which contributes to increa...
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Line 2, column 466, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[4]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'accustomed to wearing'.
Suggestion: accustomed to wearing
...ut other types of shoes, the people are accustomed to wear running shoes rather than other types. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, then, therefore, in fact, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.6327345309 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1801.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 337.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34421364985 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82390638165 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543026706231 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.8031655956 57.8364921388 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.066666667 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4666666667 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46666666667 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.112654459265 0.218282227539 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0363819341002 0.0743258471296 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0286215074487 0.0701772020484 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0593313013307 0.128457276422 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0225270319291 0.0628817314937 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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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