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.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author comes to a conclusion that the new Captain Seafood restaurant is quite popular and profitable in Bay City based on a sales study of the consumption of seafood dishes and the majority of the famalies in Bay City are two-income families who prefer to eat heatly food outside as found out by a national survey. However, before the author's judgement can be properly evaluated, one requires following pieces of evidence.
Firstly, how was the sales survey designed to capture the trends in Bays city? The author does not provide any details of the sales study that can help one evaluate the soundness of its findings. There is possibility that the sample size chosen for the study it too small to capture the behavior of the sales. Further, it is possible that the chosen sample is biased and includes only those restaurents that primarily serve seafood. If either of the scenarios has any merit, then the author's conclusion that Captain Seafood restaurant has a lucrative business does not hold water.
Secondly, the author mentions that the sales study found a 30% percent increase in the sales of seafood dishes. However, he fails to mention the absolute number of sales to substantiate his argument. For instance, the revenue for the seafood was only 100 dollars five years ago and a 30 percent would increase that revenue to 130 dollars which accounts to a paltry increase in the revenue. If the above case turns out to be true. the author's argument is significantly weakened. Thus, one requires to know the increase in sales in terms of absolute numbers rather than in percentages.
Moreover, the author fallaciosly generalizes the findings of a national survery to Bay city. Is the behavior of the families in Bay City similar to that of the nation? In other words, can the behavioral pattern observed nationally be used to judge the behavior of the families in Bay City? Perhaps, the eating habits of the folks in Bay City are remarkably different from rest of the nation - preferring home cooked food rather than eating outside. Or the nationwide survey is misleading as there is a possibility of negating regional variations in the eating habits. Therefore, the author needs to provide evidence in his argument that implies the above scenrios are not the case. Or else, the author's conclusion is untenable if the above cases turn to be true.
To recapitulate, the argument, as it stands, is unpersuasive as it does not provide enough evidence to soundly evaluate the conclusion of the author. One would be in a better position to appraise profitability of Captian Seafood restaurant if the author can provide further pieces of evidence that facilitates equitable evaluation of the argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 11 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 454 350
No. of Characters: 2211 1500
No. of Different Words: 203 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.616 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.87 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.664 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 172 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.619 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.504 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.619 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.533 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.111 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 340, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... a national survey. However, before the authors judgement can be properly evaluated, on...
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Line 3, column 65, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...es survey designed to capture the trends in Bays city? The author does not provid...
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Line 3, column 486, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...f the scenarios has any merit, then the authors conclusion that Captain Seafood restaur...
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Line 5, column 391, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...ts to a paltry increase in the revenue. If the above case turns out to be true. th...
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Line 5, column 431, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...If the above case turns out to be true. the authors argument is significantly weake...
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Line 5, column 435, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...he above case turns out to be true. the authors argument is significantly weakened. Thu...
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Line 8, column 696, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...scenrios are not the case. Or else, the authors conclusion is untenable if the above ca...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, for instance, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2268.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 454.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99559471366 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72610409216 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464757709251 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 736.2 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4400154239 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.090909091 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6363636364 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.09090909091 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25316755491 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0689996542791 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0775918898512 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147071043462 0.128457276422 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0694102724301 0.0628817314937 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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