"Most homes in the northeastern United States, where winters are typically cold, have traditionally used oil as their major fuel for heating. Last heating season that region experienced 90 days with below-normal temperatures, and climate forecasters predict that this weather pattern will continue for several more years. Furthermore, many new homes are being built in the region in response to recent population growth. Because of these trends, we predict an increased demand for heating oil and recommend investment in Consolidated Industries, one of whose major business operations is the retail sale of home heating oil."
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
The author proposes that, owing to increasing demand for heating oil, we should invest in Consolidated Industries whose major business operation is the retail sale of home heating oil. To buttress his/her argument, the author cites the following evidences: first, 90 days with below-average temperature happened last year and would continue for the several more years; second, increasingly number of newly built home in this region during the past year suggests more requirement of oil; third, retail sale of home heating oil is the major business operation in Consolidated Industries. Tough the issu...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 595 350
No. of Characters: 3082 1500
No. of Different Words: 274 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.939 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.18 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.884 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 219 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 160 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 126 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 91 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.453 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.679 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.274 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.462 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 940, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...bstantiate the necessity of investment. Furthermore, the newly constructed homes...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, may, moreover, regarding, second, so, then, therefore, third, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in addition, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 55.5748502994 144% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3187.0 2260.96107784 141% => OK
No of words: 594.0 441.139720559 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36531986532 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93681225224 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99784761447 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 290.0 204.123752495 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488215488215 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 1010.7 705.55239521 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 19.0 8.76447105788 217% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 86.5304815351 57.8364921388 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.821428571 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2142857143 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.75 5.70786347227 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233832988094 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.063235418372 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0547662386528 0.0701772020484 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141279525362 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0655958710013 0.0628817314937 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 150.0 98.500998004 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 12.3882235529 161% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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