The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company.
"Several recent surveys indicate that home owners are increasingly eager to conserve energy. At the same time, manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, that are almost twice as energy efficient as those sold a decade ago. Also, new technologies for better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available to reduce the energy needed for home heating. Therefore, the total demand for electricity in our area will not increase—and may decline slightly. Since our three electric generating plants in operation for the past twenty years have always met our needs, construction of new generating plants will not be necessary."
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 Planning Department of an electric power company mentioned in memorandum that there will not be necessity of construction of new generating plant. The department explained the reasons behind the decision which are not seems to be appropriate. The assumption made by the authority is there is no need for extra power supply in that area as survey suggested that people are eager to conserve energy and other options reached to the market which can replace the present electric appliances. The assumptions made to strengthen the argument however it is therefore unconvincing.
Additionally, the planning department consider the surveys which indicate that home owners are eager to save electricity. This statement suggests that people are interested to save electricity whether they are doing something to save electricity or not is unclear. The department considers only usage by homeowners and ignore electricity consumption by commercial market and industrial offices. The department should do pilot study in their area to calculate the demand of electricity usage. Despite of relaying on others survey the company should collect concrete data and plan according to it. The electric appliances manufacturing industries are marketing home appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioners which allure the public. Home appliances are need for life comforts and people cannot ignore to buy such products. So, the assumption made that people will decrease use of electricity.
Moreover, the department also considers the new technologies which can replace present electric power such as solar energy. solar heater and other solar appliances are very costly. Everyone cannot buy such expensive technologies and electric appliances do not run with solar energy. Homeowners will not bear two type of expenses for electricity. The department should consider that every technology has flaws and take time to establish. The new power plant will be profitable if company plan according to reality.
Furthermore, the planning department concluded that demand for electricity in their area will not increase and may decline slightly. The conclusion is unappropriated because there is different factor which affect number of consumers. These factors are fluctuation of population, rental homes, commercial area, consumers response for new technology, etc., should consider by department. The per capital income of the area also suggests purchasing power of the people. Due to such factors it may possible that the demand of electric power rise in spite of declining and in that case, they have to fulfill their demands by supplying power. If the company has fund to build new power generating plant then they should work on it, because demand of electricity will increase surly as technologies gifts people to make life more and more comfortable.
Finally, all these points are against the department's assertion. They have not supported their argument with strong evidence. They should have studied about the expected changes in the area's population, and about the condition and energy-efficiency of the three existing electric power plants.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 248, 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.
... which are not seems to be appropriate. The assumption made by the authority is the...
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Line 1, column 493, 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.
...eplace the present electric appliances. The assumptions made to strengthen the argu...
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Line 5, column 125, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Solar
...nt electric power such as solar energy. solar heater and other solar appliances are v...
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Line 9, column 43, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'departments'' or 'department's'?
Suggestion: departments'; department's
...nally, all these points are against the departments assertion. They have not supported thei...
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Line 9, column 186, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'areas'' or 'area's'?
Suggestion: areas'; area's
...udied about the expected changes in the areas population, and about the condition and...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, such as, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2669.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 481.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54885654886 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.960633275 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469854469854 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 843.3 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 15.0 4.99550561798 300% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.4711352691 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8518518519 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8148148148 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.59259259259 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219551471392 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0605882145526 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0599706118385 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121201041144 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0579863664513 0.0667264976115 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.3 48.8420337079 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.61 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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