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 argument tells that new Captain Seafood restaurant will be quite popular and profitable based on recent sales study. There are many questions which should be answered in order to evaluate the argument. The answers to these questions helps in supporting or undermining the argument.
Firstly, Is the recent sales study results are accurate and who conducted the recent sales study? Is the sales study done by reputed organization? The answers to these questions helps in determining the validity of the sales study results. The recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafoods in Bay City restaurant has increased by 30 percent during past five years. There is no evidence that consumption of sea food in new Captain Seafood restaurant will also increase by same amount. Because, people will not generally prefer new restaurants. If people do not like sea food in new Restaurant, they will not prefer going there. Moreover, sales study did not indicate other factors which affected the increase in consumption of sea foods in Bay Restaurant. It may be the case where the costs are cheaper in the Bay City restaurants and people prefer going there. If the people surveyed in the recent study are large enough to represent general population, then it offers some support to the conclusion.
Nationwide study states that two-income families which constitute majority of families in Bay City prefer fewer home-cooked meals. Secondly, If the two-income families in Bay city prefer eating fewer-cooked meals, then does that mean they prefer eating Sea food in restaurants. If they do not prefer eating sea food, then it undermines the validity of the argument. If they prefer eating sea food in any Bay City restaurant, then it offers support for the argument.
Thirdly, how can the author be sure that new Seafood restaurant will be profitable when majority of families express more concern about healthful eating? Indeed, when people are more health conscious, then they avoid eating Seafood in restaurants. In this case, the new Captain Seafood will not be profitable and it undermines the conclusion.
If the above few questions are answered, then it helps in deciding whether the conclusion and the argument on which it is based is reasonable.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 367 350
No. of Characters: 1849 1500
No. of Different Words: 151 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.377 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.038 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.599 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.476 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.635 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.346 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.157 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 497, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” 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.
...rant will also increase by same amount. Because, people will not generally prefer new r...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1900.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 367.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17711171662 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71058967094 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.427792915531 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 584.1 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.3357742046 57.8364921388 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.4761904762 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4761904762 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.95238095238 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.279633132099 0.218282227539 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0991041325515 0.0743258471296 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.135973283468 0.0701772020484 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126488260209 0.128457276422 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121188018589 0.0628817314937 193% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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