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 specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The new Captian Seafood restaurant may be profitable and popular with the people of Bay City. The argument by the author for why it would be profitable does not provide solid evidence for the profitability. Some of the assumptions in the argument could be easily used to undermine the author’s argument.
The author cites a recent sales study that indicates that the consumption of seafood dishes in Bay city resaurants has increase by thirty percent over the past five years. The types of restaurants is key to determing whether the survey is valuable to the author. This survey could be looking at restaurants who cater events, fast food restaurants, or non chain restaurant. Also, the survey does not talk about the types of people who eat the resaurants. If this survey were about resaurants that are in the same market as Captian Seafood, then the argument would be strengthen. The recent sales survey needs more details to used effectively by the author for his argument.
The nationwide study may not be valuable to the author when he is arguing for the popularility of Captian Seafood. The nation wide study could show that the majority of households do not like to go out for seafood. If Bay City families were similar to families in the nationwide survey, they would not consume more seafood and the restaurant may be unprofitable because of it. Bay City may have different demographics than those represented in the study. The study of families could have a majority of single parent households and thus make it uncomparable to the community of Bay City. The nation wide study may have a majority of the observataions from a specific geographic area that is not comparable to Bay City. This would make it also impossible to use the survey observations since the two areas are different and the families in these areas are different. The use of a nationwide by author could creates problems for his argument for Captain Seafood.
The argument for whether Captain Seafood is profitable or not should not be based on this argument. The vagueness of recent sales report and the assumption that the nationwide survey results will be the same in Bay City could be valuable or destructive to the author’s argument. A new restaurant is usually popular at its opening.
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: 20 15
No. of Words: 386 350
No. of Characters: 1857 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.432 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.811 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.7 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 128 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 69 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.3 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.358 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.45 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.341 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.508 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.124 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 208, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...e solid evidence for the profitability. Some of the assumptions in the argument could be ea...
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Line 5, column 116, 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.
...or the popularility of Captian Seafood. The nation wide study could show that the m...
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Line 5, column 120, Rule ID: NATION_WIDE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nationwide'?
Suggestion: nationwide
...he popularility of Captian Seafood. The nation wide study could show that the majority of h...
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Line 5, column 593, Rule ID: NATION_WIDE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nationwide'?
Suggestion: nationwide
...rable to the community of Bay City. The nation wide study may have a majority of the observ...
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Line 5, column 907, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'create'
Suggestion: create
...The use of a nationwide by author could creates problems for his argument for Captain S...
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Line 7, column 101, 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.
...t should not be based on this argument. The vagueness of recent sales report and th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, look, may, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1904.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93264248705 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81569392848 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.424870466321 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 612.0 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.2519766836 57.8364921388 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.2 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.75 5.70786347227 31% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.235025486175 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841322352144 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.099200797588 0.0701772020484 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151510061352 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0646465391959 0.0628817314937 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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