Recently, we signed a contract with the Fly-Away Pest Control Company to provide pest control services at our fast-food warehouse in Palm City, but last month we discovered that over $20,000 worth of food there had been destroyed by pest damage. Meanwhile, the Buzzoff Pest Control Company, which we have used for many years, continued to service our warehouse in Wintervale, and last month only $10,000 worth of the food stored there had been destroyed by pest damage. Even though the price charged by Fly-Away is considerably lower, our best means of saving money is to return to Buzzoff for all our pest control services.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The vice president of this food distribution company suggests that the company should chooses Buzzoff Pest Control Company’s pest control services. However, several assumptions in the argument need supports.
The first assumption is that over $20000 worth of food in Palm City was destroyed by pest damage. Still, it might be possible that the weather in Palm City was wetter than other areas for a long period, such as having a rainfall amount being over 2000 milliliter per year. Thus, the food stored in Palm City was more likely to attract more pests because of this bad weather condition. Moreover, it was possible that the pests in Palm City were more aggressive than the ones in Wintervale. Thus, even if other the food distribution company chooses other pest control companies to deal the same situation, it is also likely to have the same results as Fly-away Pest Control Company. Therefore, we need more information about the weather condition in Palm City.
The author assumes that the lost food at the warehouse in Palm City accounted for a huge part of the total of food. However, a thorough financial report is not presented. If the $20000 worth of food only accounted for one percent of the total, then it was just a small loss for the food distribution company. However, if the $10000 worth of food at the warehouse in Wintervale accounted for over fifty percent of the total, then it would be a greater loss than the one in Palm City. Furthermore, it is also likely that the worth of lost food in Wintervale was over than $10000, but the employees did not report the true number to their supervisors. Because if they reported the true condition, they may be forced strict punishments by their company. Thus, the number of the worth of lost food might not be true. As a result, the author must provide more reliable report about how much the percentage of these lost food accounted for.
The author assumes that there was only $10000 worth of the food stored in Wintervale was destroyed in last month. However, the author must provide us with a long trend of future possible results instead of being based on one month result. If the weather in Wintervale of this month was better than other months, then it might be possible that there would be larger damages in other months. However, if the weather in Wintervale becomes wetter than past few years, then it is possible that the food stored in Wintervale will attract more pests to eat than before. As a result, the author must provide more detailed information about future possible weathers in Wintervale.
To sum up, the author would need to address the above assumptions to strengthen the argument.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 461 350
No. of Characters: 2156 1500
No. of Different Words: 172 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.634 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.677 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.382 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 139 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.955 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.308 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.864 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.138 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 87, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[2]
Message: The verb 'should' requires the base form of the verb: 'choose'
Suggestion: choose
...ompany suggests that the company should chooses Buzzoff Pest Control Company’s pest con...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, then, therefore, thus, as for, such as, as a result, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 11.1786427146 9% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2216.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 461.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80694143167 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48036316484 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.383947939262 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 667.8 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.6561713932 57.8364921388 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.727272727 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9545454545 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.291477884198 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.095893935457 0.0743258471296 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0848456569641 0.0701772020484 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160611600551 0.128457276422 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104265138906 0.0628817314937 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 48.3550499002 141% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.13 8.32208582834 86% => 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: 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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