The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a food distribution company with food storage warehouses in several cities.
Recently, we signed a contract with the Fly-Away Pest Control Company to provide pest control services at our warehouse in Palm City, but last month we discovered that over $20,000 worth of food there had been destroyed by pest damage. Meanwhile, the Buzzoff Pest Control Company, which we have used for many years in Palm City, continued to service our warehouse in Wintervale, and last month only $10,000 worth of the food stored there had been destroyed by pest damage. Even though the price charged by Fly-Away is considerably lower, our best means of saving money is to return to Buzzoff for all our pest control services.
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 prove unwarranted.
The vice president of a food distribution company suggests in a memo that in order to save money for the company, the company should change its pest control services back to Buzzoff and stop using the new pest service company, Fly-Away, in all of its warehouse. However, there are several assumptions in the argument need to be addressed.
The vice president claims that the fast-food warehouse in Palm City which the pest control service is provided by Fly-Away had a lost more than double than the warehouse in Wintervale which the pest control sevice is provided by Buzzoff. Here, the vice president assumes that the condition in Palm City is exactly the same as Wintervale. For example, we do not know where Palm City and Wintervale is located at. What if Palm City is located in southern tropical weather and Wintervale is close up to north with low colder weather. In tropical weather insects are usually more active colder weather. Or, perhaps, the warehouse in Palm City is older than the one in Wintervale, and due to this reason, there are many holes in the wall where bugs can go in.
Furthermore, in the memo, the author mentions the price of Fly-Away is “considerably” lower. Here he assumes that the price is lower than the $10,000 difference between the damage worth of food. We do not have enough of information to know if that is necessarily true. What if, for example, the cost of Fly-Away is $15,000 cheaper than Buzzoff? If this is true, than the argument of the author can not be supported.
Even if Fly-Away is not cheaper than the lost of the food damage, we still need to address the assumption Fly-Away had enough of time to fix the pest problem in Palm City. In the memo, the vice president mentions that the company recently change to new pest control service provider. However, we do not know if “recently” meant by 1 month or 5 months. If the change is only for 1 month, then there are not enough of time to judge Fly-Away’s performance fairly. It can takes weeks to kill all the adult pests and even months to kill all the babies or eggs that are not yet become harmful pests. Hence, we need to know how long did Fly-Away started the service for Palm City in order for us to evaluate this assumption.
To conclude, the vice president of a food distribution company needs to address the assumptions above in order to strengthen the argument.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 421 350
No. of Characters: 1895 1500
No. of Different Words: 169 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.53 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.501 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.404 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 123 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.05 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.531 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.535 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.146 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 369, Rule ID: COMMA_THAN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'then'?
Suggestion: then
... cheaper than Buzzoff? If this is true, than the argument of the author can not be s...
^^^^
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t of the author can not be supported. Even if Fly-Away is not cheaper than the...
^^^
Line 7, column 484, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'take'
Suggestion: take
...-Away's performance fairly. It can takes weeks to kill all the adult pests and e...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, still, then, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1985.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 421.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71496437055 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78388851478 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.439429928741 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 616.5 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.384539704 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.25 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.05 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.3 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.336017400044 0.218282227539 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0919086926208 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102019296639 0.0701772020484 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194305763049 0.128457276422 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0716487038876 0.0628817314937 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.04 12.5979740519 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.34 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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