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 chain of stores is opening its new franchise in the town of Plainville and it should prove to be very successful. The author has given various arguments to prove his claim but these arguments are based on void assumptions, so the author’s claim is weak and unconvincing.
Firstly, the author’s claim was based on the assumption that since the sales of the running shoes and the exercise clothing is at all-time high, so the people of the Plainsville’s town lead a healthy lifestyle, but the author fails to mention the reason for the high sales of the exercise and the running products. The sales might be high due to the other factors like the sale is going on running shoes and exercise clothing and because of that, the people of Plainsville bought a lot of products.
Secondly, the author mentioned that the local health club has more members than ever. There could be various other reasons for that. It might be due to the club offered 1+1 membership for the couples and residents of the Plainsville doesn’t want to lose that chance. The other reason for the increment of the members is that the club might have conducted indoor games competition for a few days and the residents wanted to attend that competition.
Thirdly, the author assumed that since the weight training and aerobic classes were always full, therefore the people of Plainsville maintained a healthy lifestyle. The author fails to take into account the number of people in weight training and aerobic classes compared to the total number of people in Plainsville. What if the total number of people in weight training and aerobic classes consists of 1% of the total number of people in Plainsville, then even if everyone buys the healthy products the franchise would not be very successful.
At last the author mentioned that school children represent a new generation of potential customers. They will buy health-related products because they will engage in fitness for life program and these products will help them in maintaining their fitness. The argument is based on the assumption that parents will allow their children to take health supplements at this younger age, but we don’t have any information about it.
In conclusion, the author’s claim would be strengthened if the author took into account the other factors like the reason for the high sale of running products and exercise equipment, the number of people joined the aerobic classes and the surety if parents will allow their children to take health supplements. With these assumptions, the claim is weak and more of wishful thinking.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 441 350
No. of Characters: 2130 1500
No. of Different Words: 177 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.583 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.83 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.557 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.562 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.485 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.438 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.603 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.16 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 403, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...training and aerobic classes consists of 1% of the total number of people in Plai...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2205.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 438.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03424657534 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77175061806 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.417808219178 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 646.2 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.0869421693 57.8364921388 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.8125 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.375 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144316721881 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0602422929593 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0885384802492 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0801899734385 0.128457276422 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0517231532517 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => 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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