The following appeared as part of an annual report sent to stockholders by Olympic Foods, a processor of frozen foods:
“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.”
The argument claims that the cost of processing decreases with the increase of organisation’s experience. The arguments illustrates it with an example of color film processing industry. It even draws a parallel between color film processing industry and frozen food processing, to substantiate its stand. Stated in this way, the argument reveals the examples of leap of faith, poor reasoning, and conveys a distorted view of the situation. The conclusion of the argument relies on assumptions for which there is no clear evidence. Hence, the argument is weak and unconvincing, and has several inher...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 472 350
No. of Characters: 2461 1500
No. of Different Words: 238 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.661 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.214 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.89 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 156 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 119 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 74 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.522 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.813 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.522 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.315 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.492 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.08 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 126, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'illustrate'.
Suggestion: illustrate
...sation's experience. The arguments illustrates it with an example of color film proces...
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Line 5, column 276, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...en the working of these two industries. While color film processing is more skill ori...
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Line 9, column 403, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this information' or 'these informations'?
Suggestion: this information; these informations
...motivates them to perform well. Without these information, the argument remains unsubstantiated a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, while, as to, in conclusion, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 36.0 16.3942115768 220% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2531.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 472.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36228813559 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02580871002 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 204.123752495 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521186440678 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 773.1 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 62.0354821184 57.8364921388 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.458333333 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.20833333333 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0926760650749 0.218282227539 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0300160590951 0.0743258471296 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0296981849065 0.0701772020484 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0563716757321 0.128457276422 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0171683110072 0.0628817314937 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 98.500998004 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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