A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood. Mor

In the preceding argument, the author states that they have to open a New Captain Seafood restaurant that specialized in Seafood because will be popular and profitable, the conclusion is based on the following premises. Firstly , he states a study that the consumption of seafood increased by 30 percent. Secondly, he claims that the Bay city families have two incomes and do not prefer to eat at their homes plus they concern to eat healthy foods. Hence, in the first glance it may seem plausible. However, careful scrutiny sheds light on plethora of assumptions that could undermine the value of the argument.

To begin with, the author readily states a study that the residents consumption for the seafood has increased by 30 percent. In deed, there are multifarious factors that remains elusive and intractable. Such as, what is the sample size? Is it representative enough to draw a broad conclusion? Plus, what was the previous percent for the people consumption seafood, perhaps the previous percent was 25 percent thus is not a good indicator to open a new seafood restaurant. Further, what is the nature of this study? How they conclude the results? Accordingly, all these factors play a major role to extrapolate the results, and in order to support his position he has to answer all the previous question clearly.

Secondary, even there is a positive and concrete relation between the families high income plus their low desire to cook at their homes and the idea of opening seafood restaurant. This does not necessarily indicate a conspicuous causation between the two events. In other words, how he concluded the relation? How strong the relation is? Perhaps, it is right that they have two incomes but may be not all of them like the seafood or perhaps they have eating system or complain from health problem preclude them to eat the seafood. Consequently, the argument is without basis and he has to provide reliable information to strengthen his case.

Thirdly, the fallacy of the argument also lies in assuming that all the residents do not cook at their homes. But in order to be convincing several questions would be answers. Firstly we would need to know what data he has used to draw this point? But more than this, we would need to know if they do not cook at their homes what meals they eat and from where?Specially the 30 percent is not significant indicator for the strong predilection of the seafood. Last but not least, he assumes that the resident prefer healthy food, then how did he know that the seafood at restaurant is healthy?. Thus, he fails again to mention plausible causes to boost his argument.

All in all, the argument fails to provide one of the key factors. Namely, all the previous assumptions are equivocal. Hence, without complete information the argument is unsubstantiated and opened to debate.

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Average: 2.6 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 228, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...based on the following premises. Firstly , he states a study that the consumption ...
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Line 3, column 59, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'residents'' or 'resident's'?
Suggestion: residents'; resident's
... author readily states a study that the residents consumption for the seafood has increas...
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Line 7, column 361, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Specially
...omes what meals they eat and from where?Specially the 30 percent is not significant indic...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, consequently, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, as to, such as, in other words, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 28.8173652695 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2373.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 481.0 441.139720559 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93347193347 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74473173196 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 204.123752495 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480249480249 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 712.8 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.1708740526 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.75 119.503703932 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1785714286 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21428571429 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170162314737 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0416994494883 0.0743258471296 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695663509685 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0959839253887 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0672175636202 0.0628817314937 107% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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argument 2 -- not OK

argument 3 -- not OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 482 350
No. of Characters: 2301 1500
No. of Different Words: 223 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.686 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.774 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.609 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 135 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.214 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.919 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.258 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.445 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.138 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5