"One month ago, all the showerheads on the first five floors of Sunnyside Towers were modified to restrict the water flow to approximately 1/3 of its original force. Although actual readings of water usage before and after the adjustment are not yet available, the change will obviously result in a considerable savings for Sunnyside Corporation, since the corporation must pay for water each month. Except for a few complaints about low water pressure, no problems with showers have been reported since the adjustment. Clearly, restricting water flow throughout all the 20 floors of Sunnyside Towers will increase our profits further."
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.
According to the above passage, the owner insists that change shower heads to curb maximum water flow in all twelve buildings in the Sunnyside Towers complex with the support of several grounds. At first glance, these arguments seem to be somewhat convincing, but further reflection reveals that there are many unsubstantiated speculations that hinder the author from developing logical consequence.
To begin with, mentioning that prediction of decrease of water usage, the author presumes that the profits from the decline of water usage will give profit for Sunnyside Corporation The owner implies that they should change the shower heads to restricted ones for significant profits under considering that other conditions of the shower are an equivalence. However, this assumption may be fallacious. As written in a paragraph, there is no certain evidence that supports this presumption. Due to restricted water pressure, many people elongate their shower time or extend their frequency of shower, which makes comparison ambiguous. The discrepancy in conditions leads the argument invalid.
Furthermore, the author implies that if residents are not satisfied with water pressure, they would have complained, presuming that there is no problem with showers after modificationissues, but they aren’t able to make time for several reasons like lack of time, unawareness of method, or their shyness. To clarify this supposition, the owner should make a questionnaire which questions about changing of shower heads. The result of the questionnaire will show whether they are pleased with the modification of shower heads.
Last but not least, the owner makes an error with normalization of water pressure problem, presuming that success in the first three buildings means a high possibility of success in other buildings. But, the owner did not say about the comparison between the first three buildings and others which can support the presumption. If a building is higher than the first three buildings, it will produce lower water pressure than first ones, making people more unsatisfied than first buildings.
To sum up, the owner may not necessarily be wrong to assert modifying shower heads. Though, the assertion of owner rests on a suspicious assumption which needs more scrutiny to undergird it. To bolster the argument, these investigations should encompass more conclusive evidence that make the above uncertain suppositions lucid.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 376 350
No. of Characters: 2021 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.403 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.375 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.861 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 144 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 113 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.005 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.052 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 85, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Though” 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.
...wrong to assert modifying shower heads. Though, the assertion of owner rests on a susp...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2085.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 375.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.56 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96094399362 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530666666667 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 627.3 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 82.8959249602 57.8364921388 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.3125 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4375 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.4375 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.123569366503 0.218282227539 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0363971910786 0.0743258471296 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0397068080251 0.0701772020484 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0697760365759 0.128457276422 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0334999299301 0.0628817314937 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.26 12.5979740519 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.24 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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