The following appeared as part of an article in the business section of a local newspaper.
“Motorcycle X has been manufactured in the United States for over 70 years. Although one foreign company has copied the motorcycle and is selling it for less, the company has failed to attract motorcycle X customers - some say because its product lacks the exceptionally loud noise made by motorcycle X. But there must be some other explanation. After all, foreign cars tend to be quieter than similar American-made cars, but they sell at least as well. Also, television advertisements for motorcycle X highlight its durability and sleek lines, not its noisiness, and the ads typically have voice-overs or rock music rather than engine-roar on the sound track.”
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations of counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
The argument states that the copy of the motorcycle X by one foreign company is not selling as well as the original motorcycle manufactured in the United States and contend that the reason may not be because the copy of the motorcycle lacks the loud noise. Stated in the way the argument fails to mention keys factors on the basis of which it could be evaluated. The conclusion of the argument relies on assumptions for which there is no clear evidence. Hence, the argument is flawed and unconvincing and has several flaws.
First, the motorcycle manufactured in the United Stated may be already well-known for its loud and specific noise, so the advertisement doesn’t need to show this feature. However, the copy of the motorcycle may not be recognized for its loud of noise already so the foreign company might have been better off to show this quality. Yet, this couldn’t guarantee that it may help to sell the copy of the motorcycle because the original motorcycle may have a very specific and distinctive noise that no one could copy.
Second, the people who want to buy a motorcycle may choose the one manufactured in the United States just because of the brand. For example, this brand is probably already spawn within the community so it may be hard for a new company to enter in this market.
Finally, the conclusion is drawn from an analogy with cars. This is again a weak evidence because the market, the clients for cars and motorcycle are totally different. One cannot assume any correlation between cars and motorcycle without substantive evidence.
To conclude the argument is flawed for the above-mentioned reasons and is therefore week. It could be considerably strengthened if the author used a more holistic approach and mentioned all the relevant facts. Without this information, the argument seems more of a wishful thinking and remains therefore unsubstantiated and open to debate.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, well, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1617.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 320.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.053125 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88405503372 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.48125 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 705.55239521 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4700807447 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.8 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3333333333 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.29787787488 0.218282227539 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100409479023 0.0743258471296 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0884690381779 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167060076973 0.128457276422 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.080040620403 0.0628817314937 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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