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 Nature's way tends to be successful in areas where residents lead healthy lives and Plainville is one such town. he advocates this argument by mentioning reports of sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at an all-time high and local health clubs has more member than ever. Although the argument at first instance sounds pursuing a little meticulous look however reveals its flaws.
Firstly, the author's assumption that just because sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are high implies people of the town are healthy is completely unwarranted. he hasn't provided any report or evidence to show whether the bought items are actually used for such activities. it could be possible that citizens of Plainville are buying it for it's comfort and style. In such case, the author's argument weakens significantly.
Furthermore, local health club having more members don't speak for an entire population. The author hasn't provided any numeric data to show how many members have joined the health club compared to the town's entire population. he hasn't provided any numeric data about how many people the weight room and aerobic classes can hold. As it is possible that the capacity of such classes is very low, then filling such classes might be very easy.
Moreover, the author's assumption that schoolchildren represent the next generation of customers is unconvincing as it is possible that those students might be a member of those weight training and aerobics classes. In that case, they will not join Nature's way.
In conclusion, the author's argument that Nature's way will be successful in Plainville is flimsy and unwarranted. The author needs to provide authentic statistical data about the aforementioned points to make his argument more convincing. however, as it stands the argument is flawed.
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: 11 15
No. of Words: 300 350
No. of Characters: 1518 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.162 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.06 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.669 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.273 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.168 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.379 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.664 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, so, then, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 55.5748502994 43% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1549.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 296.0 441.139720559 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23310810811 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69603696588 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.533783783784 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => 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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.3561139388 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.8125 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6875 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145216092207 0.218282227539 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.052196315703 0.0743258471296 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0556048172502 0.0701772020484 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0864443284495 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0287785442582 0.0628817314937 46% => 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: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => 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: 13.05 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 98.500998004 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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