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 afitness-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 predicts that the Nature’s Way store that is opening in the town of Plainsville should prove to be very successful. This prediction is mainly based on the assumption that the residents of Plainsville lead healthy lives due to the numerous sales of running shoes and exercise clothing which are reported by the Plainsville merchants and the popularity of local health club and various training classes. However, the author should evaluate the assumptions to establish the argument strongly.
The author mentions that the sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs as the Plainsville merchants report and hastily infers that the local people certainly lead healthy lives. Apparently, behind the inference lies the assumption that the high sales of exercise shoes and clothing represent the healthy lives of local people, which should be assessed carefully. It is entirely possible that people buy those sport suits merely because they generally have poor health conditions so that they want to live healthy lives. While in fact, they will not persist on exercising on account of their laziness or bustling works. Besides, there do exist another possibility that people buy these sport clothing and shoes just for the sake of the appealing and fashionable appearances of these clothes, or they buy the clothes because they feel comfortable when in this kind of clothes rather than they actually lead healthy lives. Therefore, without further evidence to rule out the above possibilities, the author cannot firmly infer that the residents of Plainsville must live healthy lives.
The author also assumes that residents in Plainsville lead healthy lives simply due that the local health club has more members than ever, and some fitness classes are always full. Whereas an indisputable fact is that the author naïvely equalizes the popularity of fitness club with healthy lifestyles of residents. How many members do the health clubs actually have? Without exact data being given, it is far-fetched for the author to persuade me that the majority of residents live healthy lives. In addition, it is entirely possible that people attend various fitness classes just because they live unhealthily in daily lives, such as eating too much junk food or sleeping at midnight. What’s worse, they may have never been to the club after they paid for the membership. Hence, under such scenarios, the assumption is tenuous.
On the basis that people in Plainsville live healthy lives and Nature’s Way franchises tend to be profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, it is still cursory to conclude that opening the Nature’s Way store in the town of Plainsville must be successful. In an unlikely scenario where the actual conditions of Plainsville are all the same as the ones in other cities where the residents live healthily, the conclusion may be justify. Unfortunately, it is quite possible that people in other cities mainly focus on the healthy diet and adequate exercise while in Plainsville, people pay most attention to the regular exercise but don’t care about the healthy diet, which means that the Nature’s Way, a chain of store mainly selling health food, will not be popular and profitable in Plainsville. Additionally, maybe people in Plainsville don’t earn a lot of money, so they do not have much to spend. Consequently, the Nature’s Way store in Plainsville may not gain dramatic profits as expected. Without evidence regarding whether there are obvious discrepancies of the life style and economy condition between people in Plainsville and other cities where residents also live healthily being offered, the conclusion is vulnerable to counterarguments.
Overall, the author needs to take into consideration all aforementioned possibilities and supplement a series of unsupported assumptions before she can legitimately draw the conclusion.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 620 350
No. of Characters: 3220 1500
No. of Different Words: 271 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.99 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.194 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.732 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 233 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 186 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 127 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 81 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.957 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.865 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.783 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.327 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.516 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 182, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whereas” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...d some fitness classes are always full. Whereas an indisputable fact is that the author...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, apparently, besides, but, consequently, hence, however, if, may, regarding, so, still, therefore, whereas, while, in addition, in fact, kind of, such as, all the same
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 27.0 13.6137724551 198% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 28.8173652695 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3337.0 2260.96107784 148% => OK
No of words: 618.0 441.139720559 140% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3996763754 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.98594081286 4.56307096286 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89641346194 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 204.123752495 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45145631068 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 1022.4 705.55239521 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 80.7588536234 57.8364921388 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.086956522 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8695652174 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.91304347826 5.70786347227 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => 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: 0.196501260163 0.218282227539 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0650723936864 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105405351365 0.0701772020484 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109545928551 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110752590624 0.0628817314937 176% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.3799401198 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.3550499002 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 98.500998004 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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