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 fitnessfor-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.
This argument is well yet far-fetched. It lays a claim that Plainsville is a good place to Nature's Way to develop next franchise because the residents care about the healthy. Nevertheless, due to several flaws after scrutiny, this argument has some assumptions which need to support to make the statement more convincing, albeit it may appear plausible at a cursory glance.
First of all, a problem arises in this argument that merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. However, this contention is open to a number of interpretations. It might be because the country has a big game of the exercise such as basketball and baseball game so that the residents love to buy such products in recent couples of years, but the high sales might not be due to the health care which the residents notice. Alternatively, the people might think some of the products of the exercise are fashion, therefore, they are lovely to buy them but not because of the reason of wanting to do exercise. We would never know which reasons are their exactly thinking only from the sales. Hence, without accounting for and ruling out other likely scenarios, by no means could the author believe that the good sale in Plainsville is owing to the residents care their health.
In addition, even though the writer may be able to provide us with enough information to infer a solution to the above question, this argument is still ill-conceived. Another problem is the writer states the health club has more members than ever. It may be right the numbers of the members are increasing, but how many numbers are truly increasing is which we care about. The increase can be entirely possible only few people. For example, the members can add from 20 to 30, which could be the new high but still little. In order to confirm his point of view, the writer should pay close heed as well as address the representative probability mentioned above. Only the specific number is the key to bolstering his advice.
Ultimately, even if the previous assumptions might turn out to be supported by subsequently detailed illustration, a crucial problem remains that the article claims the children in school in Plainsville are their potential customers. But this statement is meaningless since there is no evidence the children who need to attend the fitnessforlife course will be their potential customers. In this light, it is reasonable to cast doubts upon presumption which made by the author because presumption actually is inadequate in that the children may be forced to joint the fitnessforlife program, but actually they do not like to do any sport. Also, it could not say if the children enjoy the fitnessforlife course, they will buy Nature's Way products. Pursuing this reasoning proves that the writer has the responsibility to carefully consider his assumptions and then provide cogent evidence to pave the way for a more reliable argument.
In hindsight, it seems precipitous for the author to make the summary based on a sequence of problematic promises. The argument turns out rather too many unsupported assumptions, most of them rooted in a rather narrow slice. As such, it cannot bear the weight of the assertion that Nature's Way could develop well in Plainsville.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not exactly. need to argue:
The local health club has more members than ever, and the weight training and aerobics classes are always full.
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 24 15
No. of Words: 551 350
No. of Characters: 2680 1500
No. of Different Words: 270 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.845 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.864 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.756 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 187 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 141 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 102 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.958 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.281 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.708 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.256 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.475 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 505, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
.... Alternatively, the people might think some of the products of the exercise are fashion, t...
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Line 4, column 191, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...article claims the children in school in Plainsville are their potential customer...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, then, therefore, well, for example, in addition, such as, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2735.0 2260.96107784 121% => OK
No of words: 551.0 441.139720559 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96370235935 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84493438435 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84907000221 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 273.0 204.123752495 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495462794918 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 846.0 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 4.96107784431 282% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.5535661625 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.958333333 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9583333333 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.146441225465 0.218282227539 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0400497865935 0.0743258471296 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0414288062122 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0789699841231 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00959691663119 0.0628817314937 15% => 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: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 98.500998004 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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