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. This difference in pest damage is best explained by the negligence of Fly-Away."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The author of this memo is blaming the damage done by pests in his food storage warehouses due to the negligence of the pest control company, Fly-Away. The author does not create a valid argument against the company because there are other alternatives that, when considered, could invalidate his claim. The differences could be on account of the different locations and climates of the warehouses where different species of pests resides, along with the Fly-Away having different protocols compared to the Buzzoff Pest Control Company, and the different company storing their food products in a different manner.
The author explicitly states that the warehouses where pest damage was seen occurred in two different cities. These cities could be a part of different climates and thus having different pests and their habits. Palm City seems to be in an oceanic-city and thus will have a very humid and wet climate. Pests love to find wet items to feed off of whereas Wintervale could be in a dryer, cooler climate and not be a host to as many pests as the Palm City warehouse. Thus, different climates would have a larger impact on the amount of pests available to gain entrance into the warehouse and cause damage.
Not only could there be a significant difference in climate between the warehouses but there is a large difference in the pest control companies used. Fly-Away and Buzzoff Pest Control will not have the same exact protocol as each other because they are not the same company. Buzzoff Pest Control must have a stricter protocol when dealing with pest control and employ workers who adhere to the protocols. Fly-Away can have protocols set in place but the workers may not adhere to them and thus jeopardizing the pest control effectiveness. This is like comparing apples to oranges, which are completely different items and have no relation.
Lastly, the company protocols and climate differences can be a huge impact, but how each warehouse stores the food could be a huge impact. Like the pest control companies, the warehouses most likely have protocols set in place in order to store the food properly and not allow pests to take over them. Workers may ignore the protocols and store the food in the way they think it should be stored without regard to pest invasion. This would be an employee mistake and it would be corrected in order for the warehouses to succeed in pest control operations.
All in all, Fly-Away pest control is not completely at fault for the $20,000 worth of damage at the Palm City food storage warehouse. The author should take into account variable items such as climate, pest control company protocols, and warehouse employee doings before placing the full blame on the negligence of Fly-Away. It would be recommended for the author to obtain more research and obligations before going forward with the argument against Fly-Away.
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Suggestion:
...ard with the argument against Fly-Away.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'if', 'lastly', 'may', 'thus', 'whereas', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.292069632495 0.25644967241 114% => OK
Verbs: 0.139264990329 0.15541462614 90% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0773694390716 0.0836205057962 93% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0425531914894 0.0520304965353 82% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0212765957447 0.0272364105082 78% => OK
Prepositions: 0.110251450677 0.125424944231 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0406189555126 0.0416121511921 98% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.57259019648 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0290135396518 0.026700313972 109% => OK
Particles: 0.00193423597679 0.001811407834 107% => OK
Determiners: 0.121856866538 0.113004496875 108% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.036750483559 0.0255425247493 144% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0135396518375 0.0127820249294 106% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2907.0 2731.13054187 106% => OK
No of words: 483.0 446.07635468 108% => OK
Chars per words: 6.01863354037 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68799114503 4.57801047555 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.354037267081 0.378187486979 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.28364389234 0.287650121315 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.180124223602 0.208842608468 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.12215320911 0.135150697306 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57259019648 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 207.018472906 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.422360248447 0.469332199767 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 47.3350690573 52.1807786196 91% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.039408867 100% => OK
Sentence length: 24.15 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.6324993699 57.7814097925 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.35 141.986410481 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.15 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.35 0.724660767414 48% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 52.514389234 51.9672348444 101% => OK
Elegance: 2.18095238095 1.8405768891 118% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.45866184709 0.441005458295 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.152437760459 0.135418324435 113% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0794718032694 0.0829849096947 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.599751425907 0.58762219726 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.126937623034 0.147661913831 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.206577905863 0.193483328276 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110271978075 0.0970749176394 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.430950759552 0.42659136922 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0651665390788 0.0774707102158 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.342635692888 0.312017818177 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0911917046144 0.0698173142475 131% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 14.657635468 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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