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.
In the argument, the author concludes that the new Captain Seafood restaurant will be quite popular and profitable. However, the author supports his conclusion with three unwarranted assumptions that dramatically weekend the argument.
First of all, will the increase of seafood consumption in the Bay City restaurants be the same as it did in the past five years? The author presumes the rise in seafood consumption in the Bay City restaurants will be the same as in the past five years. The author fails to provide any evidence the consumption of seafood will remaining the same or will increase. But it is possible that the consumption of seafood in the following years can be declining. If it is true, the argument does not hold water.
Second of all, does the nationwide survey represent every Two-income family in Bay City? The author of the argument fails to provide any justifications about the nationwide study. The author assumes that the two-income family in the bay city eats seafood significantly in the restaurant. There is a potential that the two-income family does not like seafood at all. There is also another potential for the two-income family in the Bay City to stay home rather than go to restaurants to eat. If either of these is true, the conclusion is drawn in the argument significantly weekend.
Finally, the recommendation also leaves many other unanswered questions. Will the specialized Seafood restaurant, the new Captain Seafood restaurant can provide healthy food? The author mentions Bay city people's concern about healthful eating but fails to justify the new restaurant will provide healthy food. The author also assumes that people of the bay city will abandon the current restaurant and start eating in the new Captain restaurant. There is no systematic study that presents the justification of these assumptions. If any of these are true, the argument that the new Captain Seafood restaurant will be quite popular and profitable is not overly persuasive.
In conclusion, as it stands now is considerably flawed due to its relation to several unwarranted assumptions; if the author can provide the answer to the three questions above and provide more evidence (perhaps a systematic research study), then it will be possible to evaluate the viability of the argument entirely.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 376 350
No. of Characters: 1902 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.403 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.059 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.859 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 113 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.698 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.379 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.579 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.157 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 327, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'remain'
Suggestion: remain
...vidence the consumption of seafood will remaining the same or will increase. But it is po...
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Line 5, column 583, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... in the argument significantly weekend. Finally, the recommendation also leaves ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, so, then, in conclusion, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1949.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 376.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1835106383 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91799682424 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.409574468085 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 607.5 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.9022880035 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.45 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.85 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => 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: 0.256561628323 0.218282227539 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0998113351151 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0962403132564 0.0701772020484 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141074619547 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105664990676 0.0628817314937 168% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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