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.
While it might be true that home owners are interested to conserve energy; however, the author's argument does not make a cogent sense. It is easy to understand that more efficient home appliances those save energy and new home insulation technologies are available, but this argument is rife with holes and assumptions, therefor not strong enough to guarantee energy conservation by home owners.
The author indicates that recent surveys shows that home owners wants to save more energy; however, the author does not provide any further information about surveys' sample group and type of questions. For example, it could be just few yes and no questions from small sample group which is not valuable results. Moreover, there is no guarantee if sample groups are going to conserve energy or not. To strengthen his or her argument, the author needs investigation about all home owners eager to conserve energy and their energy consuming amount.
Additionally, the author mentions that better home insulation technologies and more efficient home appliances are available, but the author does not talk about the price which is an important factor. If those home energy consuming devices such as refrigerators and air conditioners are expensive, residents are not going to buy them. As a result, there will be no energy conservation by using same old home electric devices.
The author implies that construction of new generating plants is not necessary because energy demand will decrease based on past assumptions and also because there are already three twenty years old electric generating. However, the author does not mention about total population change during past twenty years that is essential to know. Imagine there are more people living in same houses. As a result, electric energy will increase. Moreover, one or two of the old generating might need to be replaced which will cost money.
This suggestion is persuasive when the author gathers information about population change, home electric instruments' prices, and survey details. After answering these questions, the author can make such a conclusion.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 89, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...rested to conserve energy; however, the authors argument does not make a cogent sense. ...
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Line 2, column 232, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun yes seems to be countable; consider using: 'few yeses', 'few yesses'.
Suggestion: few yeses; few yesses
...uestions. For example, it could be just few yes and no questions from small sample grou...
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Line 2, column 546, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ergy and their energy consuming amount. Additionally, the author mentions that b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, moreover, so, then, while, for example, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 58.6224719101 48% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1787.0 2235.4752809 80% => OK
No of words: 335.0 442.535393258 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33432835821 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73339943812 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 215.323595506 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.519402985075 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.1986295525 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.6875 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9375 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.237755174542 0.243740707755 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835729681915 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062401907983 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142628010537 0.150359130593 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0654774778373 0.0667264976115 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 100.480337079 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.