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. Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be addressed in order to decide whether the conclusion and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to the questions would help to evaluate the conclusion.
The crux of the argument was, since the seafood consumption in Bay City increased by 30 percent in the past five years, So, a new seafood restaurant would be profitable. As there is no seafood specialty restaurant in the area. The argument is based on unwarranted reasons and flawed for the following reasons.
The author concludes that the new seafood restaurant would be profitable based on a sales study, which told seafood consumption increased by 30 percent and the families in the Bay City have a stable income. But the author does not provide the actual number that how many denizens took part in that survey or how many people consume seafood on a regular basis. It might be possible that the actual number does not increase but the Bay City might be popular within the tourists and they would like to consume seafood. So, a conclusion based on the survey was unfeasible, because even tourists might attend the Bay City on a specific time of the year.
The author claimed that the families eat fewer home-cooked meals and they are health conscious. These are self-contradictory to each other. So, the legitimacy of the survey is in the question. It might be also possible that compared to five years ago the citizens are now more health conscious, that;'s why even though increased in seafood consumption there was no restaurant because they cook seafood meals at their homes. There is no practical data that bolster that the people's in the Bay City prefer eating outside.
The author claimed that restaurant meals are healthier than cooked meals and indirectly indicate that seafood is healthier than other foods. Does the author asked any dietitians or doctors, or does food officers gave them a certificate that their food will be healthier? The author draws a conclusion based on the facile survey.
The argument is based on unwarranted reasons and for the above following points, the argument is flawed. The argument also failed to provide any convincing data which proves that the survey was legit and the Captain Seafood restaurant will be profitable.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 348 350
No. of Characters: 1686 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.319 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.845 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.574 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.471 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.069 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.412 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.575 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 171, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
...seafood restaurant would be profitable. As there is no seafood specialty restauran...
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Line 5, column 107, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...llowing points, the argument is flawed. The argument also failed to provide any con...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1724.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 348.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95402298851 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62177961807 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.442528735632 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 526.5 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5578277663 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.411764706 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4705882353 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 5.70786347227 18% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308266867211 0.218282227539 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104723674021 0.0743258471296 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127246211864 0.0701772020484 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187320478472 0.128457276422 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128344843969 0.0628817314937 204% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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