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, Nature's Ways's next franchise should prove succesful in the town of Plainsville is flawed and based on vague and unwarranted assumption. Therefore, Nature's Way's next venuture in the town of Plainsville will be unsuccessful.
First, it is being assumed that all the healthy people would prefer to buy health food and health-related products from the Nature's Way. The possibility of presence of any other competitor of the Nature's Ways is clearly denied. In the town of Plainsville, there may be other companies which sell the products similar to the Nature's Way a at much cheaper rate. This , in turn, would reduce the sells of the Nature's Way and weaken the argument.
Second, the vague evidences have been cites in the argument to back up assumption that people of the town of Plainsville are healthy. These citations include increase in the sales of exercise clothing and shoes. There are slew of other possibilities which would explain the fact of increase in exercise clothing and footwears. It could be possible that in the town of Plainsville, excersie clothing and shoes are sold at much cheaper price and people from shopkeepers and other people from neighbouring town buy exercise clothing and shoes from the town of Plainsville. Also, buying exercise clothing and shoes does not necessarily mean people put them to use. Many of the people who have bought excercise clothing and shoes sporadically go out for excercise but they want to have these amenities available all the time so that they can excercise whenever they feel to do so.
Third, the argument provides weight training and aerobic classes being full as the evidence of people being fitness freaks. It might be possble that the number of gyms available in the town of Plainsville are few which explains the classes being full. Moreover, even if the weight training and aerobic classes are full does not translates to the whole town of Plainsville excersing.
Finally, the argument assumes that all the children from school would buy helath-related products from the Nature's Way. It might be that school has tie up with some othe company which sells health food and health product at cheaper rates. Moreover, it is not know how many children are there in the school? If there are, say only 10 students in School, it will not boost the companies profit at all. Not all the children who participate in fitness-fo-life program likes excersizing. Since it is mandatory, as stated in the argument, may a small population of children wants to get over with it without putting any effort.
In conclusion, the argument, Nature's Way's next frinchise at the town of Plainsville is flawed because it is based on vague and unwarranted assumptions.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not really. it just said: Nature's Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, and clearly Plainsville is such an area.
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
argument 4 -- not exactly. need to argue:
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.
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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: 22 15
No. of Words: 453 350
No. of Characters: 2229 1500
No. of Different Words: 198 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.613 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.921 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.692 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 151 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.591 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.215 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.591 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.13 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 336, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...the products similar to the Natures Way a at much cheaper rate. This , in turn, w...
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Line 2, column 364, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...Natures Way a at much cheaper rate. This , in turn, would reduce the sells of the ...
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Line 3, column 157, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lle are healthy. These citations include increase in the sales of exercise clothi...
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Line 3, column 223, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'slews'?
Suggestion: slews
... exercise clothing and shoes. There are slew of other possibilities which would expl...
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Line 4, column 329, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'translate'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: translate
...g and aerobic classes are full does not translates to the whole town of Plainsville excers...
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Line 4, column 329, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'translate'
Suggestion: translate
...g and aerobic classes are full does not translates to the whole town of Plainsville excers...
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Line 5, column 259, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'known'.
Suggestion: known
...t at cheaper rates. Moreover, it is not know how many children are there in the scho...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, third, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2273.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 453.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01766004415 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61343653406 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75694296964 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.448123620309 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 681.3 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.3791179819 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.318181818 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5909090909 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.04545454545 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
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: 0.264347754033 0.218282227539 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0867997995051 0.0743258471296 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.082881883651 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163947091782 0.128457276422 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102526757276 0.0628817314937 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.45 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.