Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. Only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers cannot distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine. Thus, to avoid the expense of purchasing butter and to increase profitability, the Happy Pancake House should extend this cost-saving change to its restaurants in the southeast and northeast as well
The argument claims that by replacing the butter with margarine the expenses of the Happy Pancake House restaurants will go low, Since the customers either cannot distinguish between butter and margarine or they use the same term to refer both. Proclaimed this way the argument fails to mention several key factors and manipulates facts by which it could be evaluated. The conclusion of the argument relies on the assumptions for which there is no clear evidence. However, careful examination of the evidence provide little support to the conclusion.
Firstly, the argument readily claims that replacement of the butter with margarine have satisfied 98% of the population. This statement is only an assumption and do not have clear evidence to stand on. For instance, if the restaurant have introduced a new flavour in their menu initially all the customers tend to try it. That does not mean that it is a huge success, it might go well for sometime, but if the taste is not good then the sales will go low. If the argument could have stated explicitly stated that it has satisfied majority of the population from a while when the argument could have been much more convincing.
Secondly, the argument claims that many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. This stated is again a unsupported claim, because the author fails to explain the correlation between the servers report and the customers satisfaction. One cannot come to the conclusion only by the servers report because they might not give an accurate report. If the correlation between the servers report and the customers satisfaction the author could have sounded better.
Finally, the argument the avoiding expense of purchasing butter can make the profits reach to an eminent position. Again this statement is weak and unconvincing. However careful audit of the argument will reveal little support for the conclusion, but will rise several questions such as how will the profits of the bakery can increase by the replacement? Without answering these questions the argument will remain as a wishful thought rather than a substantial evidence.
In conclusion, the argument is weak and unconvincing. To bolster further, the argument should be provided with evidence and detailed analysis of the how the replacement of the butter with margarine can lower the expenses. To evaluate the argument it is necessary to provide more information about how the replacement will increase the profits of Happy Pancake House restaurants.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...is not good then the sales will go low. If the argument could have stated explicit...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'customers'' or 'customer's'?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 36.0 16.3942115768 220% => Less nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2175.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 418.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2033492823 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78438582509 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466507177033 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 677.7 705.55239521 96% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8622666252 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.75 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.193119320794 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0600289458567 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0674885935944 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115490027175 0.128457276422 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.050344329341 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.