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 argument about the Nature's way is expanding its franchise and also states the points that will lead to its successful business. Though the argument on the first look seem to be acceptable, there are many conspicuous assumptions, which has to be addressed to completely agree with the author's claims.
Firstly, the author is claiming that Nature's Way will make profit, if it opens in the place where residents lead healthy life. But apparently no proper proof is provided to substantiate this claim. No statistics has been provided to state that what is the population of the Plainsville, and their health status. Without this information, it is difficult to say which areas are filled with residents who are leading healthy life. Further, author is also claiming that the running shoes and exercise clothing are at full-time highs. This may be likely because the merchants are having good business and marketing acumen and hence making more profit.
Secondly, the author is claiming that the local club has more members. Here also without knowing the population statistics, the conclusion made cannot be accepted. It may be likely that there are very few exercise training centers in the town which is making more people to flood in or it may even be likely that the training rooms are small and hence even with small number of people it looks full filled. The conclusion drawn using this as a claim seems futile.
Thirdly, the author is stating that the present generation are the potential customers, and so they have to participate in fitness programs. Here also the population statistics matters. Without knowing the number of people of the new generation, it is difficult to say that they are the potential customers. It may be likely that there is a less scale for the number of new generation, at that time apparently they do not become potential customers. Above all, the fitness potential customers count not only the new generation, but also all age type people.
Thus, in total, the assumptions made by the author and the missing points in the argument makes the argument facile. Still potential proofs had to be submitted to make the argument more strong and genial.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- only need to argue:
Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs.
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- need to argue:
these schoolchildren are required to participate in a fitness-for-life program, which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise at an early age.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 366 350
No. of Characters: 1780 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.374 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.863 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.499 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 127 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.263 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.491 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.303 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.532 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.046 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 118, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Still,
...the argument makes the argument facile. Still potential proofs had to be submitted to...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, first, firstly, hence, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, third, thirdly, thus, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1829.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 366.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99726775956 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60002647239 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489071038251 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 561.6 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.9798638674 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.2631578947 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2631578947 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15789473684 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132776500344 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0378914612089 0.0743258471296 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.047513473168 0.0701772020484 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.077185154636 0.128457276422 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0553175831331 0.0628817314937 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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