The café owner predicted that by reducing working hours, he could save money and remain in business without having to eliminate jobs. The argument given was that the owner could save utility cost, employee wages and other operating cost during closure.
The first question that needs to be answered to assess the reasonableness of both the prediction and the argument is whether reducing working hours will affect the café’s business. For example, customers might want to drop by for breakfast between 6-8am before work. Since the opening hours start at 8am, the business might be affected. Although reducing working hours save cost, but the café may lose many customers, thus losing more money than it should. If reducing working hours will affect business, this prediction will not stand.
The second question is based on the reasonability of the prediction. It may be reasonable for the owner in order to cut cost, but it may not be reasonable for the employees. To assess reasonability, it is important to take everyone’s situation into account. This prediction may not favour the employees because reducing working hours mean reducing pay, hence employees may not be happy with this decision. Therefore, reducing working hours is not the best strategy to save money.
The third question is whether there any other competing cafes. It is important to do a survey before making any decision. If other nearby cafés provide longer opening hours that suit the customers, the business in Juniper Café will definitely decrease drastically. Hence, the owner’s prediction that reducing opening hours will remain business may not stand.
As a conclusion, the owner of Juniper Café should do a survey about nearby cafes and a survey with the customers before making the decision to reduce opening hours. Also, in order to not lose business as well as ‘good’ employees, the owner should think of other ways to cut cost. For example, closing the café during the most inactive period.
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 324 350
No. of Characters: 1610 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.243 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.969 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.452 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 115 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.053 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.1 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.544 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.065 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, 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.
...d other operating cost during closure. The first question that needs to be answere...
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Line 5, column 354, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e café during the most inactive period.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, may, second, so, therefore, third, thus, well, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1690.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 324.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21604938272 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70623929809 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472222222222 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 512.1 705.55239521 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.9656574917 57.8364921388 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.9473684211 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0526315789 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.21052631579 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126805374485 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0442251829684 0.0743258471296 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0463250470238 0.0701772020484 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0786858659876 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338294290673 0.0628817314937 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.7 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 98.500998004 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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