The following appeared in a memo to the board of directors of a company that specializes in the delivery of heating oil."Most homes in the northeastern United States, where winters are typically cold, have traditionally used oil as their major fuel for he

In the given memo, it is claimed that there will be an increased demand for heating oil for next five years. The increase in demand is because of prediction of below-normal temperature in coming years and increase in the new house in the northeastern United States. However, various evidence has to be evaluated.

At first, the author assumes it is popular heating oil service or only one heating oil delivery service and also shares large portion sales of heating oil, in the northeastern United States. However, an author does not provide any evidence of it. Other oil service company may be popular in that area and most citizens may want to prefer to obtain service from other company because of discount, good delivery service. If this is the case, then the company sale will be static in the following years. Thus, the author should give their reputation status and other adversary company information to make the given argument reasonable.

The author does not give do not provide any evidence about the number of days in which the temperature is below the normal of the past years. If during the past decade the total number of exceptional days is around 85, then the increase of frigid temperature up to 90 days would make such impact in the sale of the heating oil. The author should give the evidence about the past status of the aberrantly cold days in that area to support the argument.

The author does not provide the evidence of how the increase in the house would lead to increase into a sale of heating oil. In the present days, there are other ways to make the house warm without the need for heating oil. The modern house is well insulated, making the house warmer for a sustainable period or the new house can be equipped with the electric heater to warm the house because electricity is cheaper than oil. If the author has given the evidence that the new house is similar to the old house which depends upon fuel and no other alternative source of heat, then the argument given would be supported.

Thus, in the given argument various evidence have to be assessed to make the argument reasonable. The evaluation status of the company and other competitors, information about the extremely glacial days in past and use of another source of energy along with a design of a new house is required to make the argument sound and safe.

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, so, then, thus, well, as to

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1953.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 413.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72881355932 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42618878435 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.404358353511 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 639.9 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6183760632 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.882352941 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2941176471 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41176470588 5.70786347227 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188550815338 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0656361291821 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0612994419588 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106325523638 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0650342796838 0.0628817314937 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.27 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 98.500998004 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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