A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood. Moreover, the majority of f

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A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood. Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable.

The argument draws the conclusion that "the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable." While this may be correct but, in order to evaluate effectively, the given evidence should be analyzed.
The first piece of evidence that might help us to assess the argument is information about consumption of other dishes in Bay City restaurants during the past five years. The author states about consumption of sea food dishes but did not mention other foods. It is possible that consumption of other dishes in Bay restaurants city has increased more than 30 percent (it means that consumption of sea dishes decreases in comparison of other food than 5 years ago). In this case, if we had evidence that consumption of other dishes has increased less than 30 percent, it would strengthen the argument.
Secondly, the author claims that "a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating." This raises the question that answers to the question will assist in evaluating the argument, it is weather that families eat sea dishes. There are a lot of healthy foods except sea dishes that the families can eat. On the other hand, one research is not strong evidence for concludes about something. It is possible that the research is not reliable or not true about the different sample. For instance, it is possible that people of Bay city have a distinct subculture that does not support eating of sea dishes in contrast to the main culture. The argument would have been strengthened if have stated the result of more studies and also the rate of consumption of sea dishes in Bay city.
Finally, according to the conclusion of this argument the new Captain Seafood restaurant should be popular and profitable. There are a lot of factors that effect on popularity and profitability of restaurant. For instance, quality of the foods, price, and personnel. If we learn that the restaurant has all factors for being popular and profitable, it would strengthen the argument.
In summary, we need extra evidence to thorough understanding of strengths and weaknesses of the argument. We need information about consumption of other dishes in Bay City restaurants during the past five years. Also, we require knowing results of more study about the use of sea dishes and we have to know the feature of the new Captain Seafood restaurant for being popular and profitable.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 172, 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.
...restaurants during the past five years. The author states about consumption of sea ...
^^^
Line 5, column 392, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...urant for being popular and profitable.
^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, for instance, in contrast, in summary, in contrast to, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2137.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 422.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06398104265 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83358127773 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.438388625592 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 654.3 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.2477825898 57.8364921388 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.722222222 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4444444444 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.94444444444 5.70786347227 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.251661300484 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.089962284204 0.0743258471296 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.099294400913 0.0701772020484 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14773551313 0.128457276422 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0861703572934 0.0628817314937 137% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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