Of the two leading brands of automobiles launched in the past year, prancer cars are clearly more superior to the competing Acer cars. prancer cars boast aesthetically pleasing design and a fuel economy of 30kms per gallon. in the past quarter alone, 5000 prancer cars were sold. Acer cars, on the other hand, have received only a few positive reviews regarding their overall performances. I have personally test-driven both brand cars and I strongly recommend that you buy a prancer car for superior performance at an affordable price.
The argument talks about a comparison between two major brands of automobiles and their performance in the past year. The author goes on to judge one of them as a superior brand and recommends buying cars of this brand to the reader. However, his view point is rife with false assumptions and these need to be scrutinized before making a valid conclusion
Firstly, for a person wanting to buy a car, analyzing just two leading car brands may not be sufficient. Although, the two brands mentioned in the argument were the leading brands launched, the author's assumption that no other car can compete with these two is false. There may be a less known automobile launched in the past year that can have an even superior mileage or performance, the two metrics based on which the author supports Prancer cars. The reviews that the author talks about also considers only these two brands. Even though Acer cars received negative comments, there may be other less known brands that provide equal, if not better customer satisfaction than Prancer cars. Therefore, the spectrum of analysis is too narrow to decide whether Prancer cars are the best.
The author then goes on to talk about the number of cars sold in the past quarter and mentions the sale of 5000 Prancer cars. However, he fails to mention how many Acer cars were sold at the same time. He uses the number of reviews to compare the sales and assumes these two metrics clearly align with each other. It may very well happen that the number of Acer cars sold may have been more than Prancer and the reviews which the author has read were of the view people who were not satisfied with the vehicle; People usually report the negative responses more than the positive ones. Similar to the number of cars sold, the author does not provide any information regarding the fuel economy of Acer cars while pointing out to the superiority of Prancer (at 30 kms/gallon). Clearly, assuming that the Acer cars consume more fuel without any suitable data can be erroneous.
Finally, while recommending Prancer cars to his friend, the author talks about his personal test drive experience. Here, he only focuses on superior performance and affordable pricing. The assumption that these are the only two points worth analyzing while making the decision can be errorneous. Prancer cars may have maintenance issues in the long run while Acer cars might be durable. Some people have a tendency to change their cars frequently. These people also take into consideration the after sale price of car. The author fails to take this metric into consideration and provides no information. Also, if we assume that the Acer cars sold less (although the author has not provided any quantification), this may have been due to the class of cars that brand Acer represents. Prancer might be a regular car that a common man can afford, whereas Acer cars might represent luxury and status and therefore are costlier and sold less.
Keeping these factors in mind, I feel the author has failed to analyze the issue dispassionately. All that the conveys in the letter is his liking towards Prancer cars.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 536 350
No. of Characters: 2537 1500
No. of Different Words: 244 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.812 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.733 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.389 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 168 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.683 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.654 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.494 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.132 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...zed before making a valid conclusion Firstly, for a person wanting to buy a c...
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Line 5, column 195, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...t were the leading brands launched, the authors assumption that no other car can compet...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e whether Prancer cars are the best. The author then goes on to talk about th...
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Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...any suitable data can be erroneous. Finally, while recommending Prancer cars...
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Line 15, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...erefore are costlier and sold less. Keeping these factors in mind, I feel th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, so, then, therefore, well, whereas, while, i feel
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2614.0 2260.96107784 116% => OK
No of words: 535.0 441.139720559 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88598130841 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4846570853 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465420560748 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 802.8 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9308983487 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.56 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.36 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => 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: 0.381028211132 0.218282227539 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117148360166 0.0743258471296 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702900319431 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211136183164 0.128457276422 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0997914706738 0.0628817314937 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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