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.
The author claims that the sales of an upcoming health food store would be lucrative, and the store prospected to be successful. The store proves to be most successful in a healthy area, this claim depends on Plainsville being a healthy area because of the following assumptions: the sales of training clothes is high, the health club has a great number of members, its classes are always booked and children are going to participate in a sport program. The assumption of Plainsville is a healthy area is too vague to be real. Before this argument to be evaluated, three questions must be answered:
Initially, where Plainsville is located? The first claim identifies that the sales of sports clothes are always high. This could be for a harsh terrain reason. For instance, if Plainsville is located atop of a mountain, plateau or near a forest. These tough terrains consume clothes and especially shoes because people might require climbing hard rocks. If this possibility holds any part of the truth, this would affect the dependability of the first assumption drastically. Therefore, Nature’s Way may have not any sales in Plainsville, because of the probability that, people are looking for high-calorie food to be able to make their living.
Secondly, why the local health club in Plainsville has so many members? The population of Plainsville could be really towering. If there is only one club in Plainsville and a lot of people there, it makes sense that, the club will always be even overcrowded. Plainsville could also be an attractive area and people is moving towards it. This does not mean at all that the whole population of Plainsville is pursuing sports and are healthy people. Nature’s way may choose a location in Plainsville, where most people do not care about sport or being healthy. Thus, it is a great risk generalizing that all people in Plainsville are healthy just because the local club is always booked.
Finally, how long is the fitness-for-life program? Opening a whole store for a program that more likely sooner or later ends is adventurous. Considering terrible winter weather in Plainsville that would eliminate any chance of training in schools, this may not only lead to the deficit but also to a probable bankruptcy. Another scenario is that schools have limited budgets for this program and cannot sustain on the long term. So, this would limit the credibility of this assumption totally. Moreover, Nature’s way would have disastrous impacts over revenues, if it relied on this assumption.
All in all, the argument as it stands, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the three questions above and offer more reliable evidences, then it will be possible to fully evaluate the argument
Comments
Essay evaluation 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: 26 15
No. of Words: 464 350
No. of Characters: 2277 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.641 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.907 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.761 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.846 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.902 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.577 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.272 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.483 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.065 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 456, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...oing to participate in a sport program. The assumption of Plainsville is a healthy ...
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Line 1, column 600, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...uated, three questions must be answered: Initially, where Plainsville is located?...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.6327345309 178% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2363.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 464.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09267241379 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92428148919 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489224137931 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 721.8 705.55239521 102% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 55.5259074667 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.52 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.56 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.68 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188069384994 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550205318356 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.066175660006 0.0701772020484 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104042676397 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0696285747921 0.0628817314937 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => 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: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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