Over time, the costs of processing go down because as organizations learn how to do things better, they becomemore efficient. In color film processing, for example, the cost of a 3-by-5-inch print fell from 50 cents for five-dayservice in 1970 to 20 cents

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Over time, the costs of processing go down because as organizations learn how to do things better, they become
more efficient. In color film processing, for example, the cost of a 3-by-5-inch print fell from 50 cents for five-day
service in 1970 to 20 cents for one-day service in 1984. The same principle applies to the processing of food. And
since Olympic Foods will soon celebrate its 25th birthday, we can expect that our long experience will enable us to
minimize costs and thus maximize profits

Author is making an argument that with time, the costs of processing decreases as efficiency increases. This can be true in some scenarios but this is not always true, as a lot of other factors can play a crucial role. Author has stated the example of a film processing industry to support his claim. He claimed that the Olympic Foods will be able soon cut its costs and maximize its profits over time.

Food business and the film processing business are completely different to equate. Author can not compare these two without taking into consideration other factors mentioned below. Processing cost accompanied with cost of raw material, labor etc. decides the profitability.

For 3-by-5 print decrease could be because of a new technology, not the experience. Labor required could have decreased because of innovation which reduced the costs of processing. If this is the factor, then same innovation can not help the Olympic food. These two are different scenarios and have completely different requirements, processes and customers. Processing cost for the film processing can be labor intensive compared to food industry.

Experience gained could have reduced total wastage during the film processing. Food processing industry employees different processes which are different from film industry. May be Olympic food is already efficient, thus experience would not help much. People are becoming more aware of their health and are avoiding outside junk food. Increased advertisement expenditure on promotional campaigns to attract customers can also impact profit margins.

Profits could nosedive because of increased machinery, raw material and electricity cost over time. Profit is not only dependent upon processing costs but also on cost of input materials. Film processing could have benefited from increased demand. Which helped it streamline its processes and take advantage of scale to reduce its costs. People are propagandizing negative effects of outside food affecting their net sales and profits.

Businesses could reduce selling price because of the adverse market condition. Thus, relating the profits to experience and the costs of processing is not sound. It could be able to reduce its total costs of processing but some exigency can always foul play. Thus, multitude of factors mentioned above play crucial role and can affect total margins. Reduced processing cost does not guarantee increased profits. Profits depends upon lot of other factors. The argument fails to consider all the factors. To come to a conclusion its better to compare two businesses of same type.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'streamlines'?
Suggestion: streamlines
... from increased demand. Which helped it streamline its processes and take advantage of sca...
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...o experience and the costs of processing is not sound. It could be able to reduce...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'thus']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.295964125561 0.25644967241 115% => OK
Verbs: 0.179372197309 0.15541462614 115% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0807174887892 0.0836205057962 97% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0515695067265 0.0520304965353 99% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0269058295964 0.0272364105082 99% => OK
Prepositions: 0.103139013453 0.125424944231 82% => OK
Participles: 0.0582959641256 0.0416121511921 140% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.77234585494 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.02466367713 0.026700313972 92% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0650224215247 0.113004496875 58% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0381165919283 0.0255425247493 149% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00448430493274 0.0127820249294 35% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2605.0 2731.13054187 95% => OK
No of words: 405.0 446.07635468 91% => OK
Chars per words: 6.43209876543 6.12365571057 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.404938271605 0.378187486979 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.335802469136 0.287650121315 117% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.241975308642 0.208842608468 116% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.182716049383 0.135150697306 135% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77234585494 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 207.018472906 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481481481481 0.469332199767 103% => OK
Word variations: 52.2635061751 52.1807786196 100% => OK
How many sentences: 31.0 20.039408867 155% => OK
Sentence length: 13.064516129 23.2022227129 56% => OK
Sentence length SD: 19.705532535 57.7814097925 34% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.0322580645 141.986410481 59% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.064516129 23.2022227129 56% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.225806451613 0.724660767414 31% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 46.6447630426 51.9672348444 90% => OK
Elegance: 1.77391304348 1.8405768891 96% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.332524333864 0.441005458295 75% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0616737065523 0.135418324435 46% => Sentence sentence coherence is low.
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0581733398286 0.0829849096947 70% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.418616021419 0.58762219726 71% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.087534940048 0.147661913831 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107819730658 0.193483328276 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0679954633219 0.0970749176394 70% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.317032521632 0.42659136922 74% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0671992905888 0.0774707102158 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206201791012 0.312017818177 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0547619835447 0.0698173142475 78% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 8.33743842365 216% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.82512315271 166% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 6.46551724138 170% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 5.36822660099 56% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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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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