Essay topics: Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville. The store should prove to be very successful: Nature's Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, and clearly Plainsville is such an area. Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. The local health club has more members than ever, and the weight training and aerobics classes are always full. Finally, Plainsville's schoolchildren represent a new generation of potential customers: these schoolchildren are required to participate in a fitness-for-life program, which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise at an early age.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
After looking at its on franchises performance, Plainsvilles’ sales reports on sportswear, and some other facts, Nature’s Way proposed to open a franchise in the town of Plainsville. Although this proposal sounds to be very convincing, it is based on assumptions repleted with holes and flaws.
First of all, Nature’s Way used the local report of the constant high sales of running shoes and athletic outwear to argue that residents in Plainsville lead a healthy life style. However, the company ignored to consider one fact: whether the residents wear these running shoes and exercise outfits to work out. It may be possible that people in this city prefer to wear casual and comfortable shoes and clothing as their routine. Unless Nature’s Way can prove that these running shoes and exercise apperal are actually used in working out, the connection it drew between the sales data and Plainsville’s healthy life style is invalid.
Besides, the company assumed the high enrollment of the the fitness classes is because of people in Plainsville are very physically active. However, they made this assumption without looking into how many fitness centers and how many fitness classes are offered in town. One alternative explanation of such a high enrollment of these classes is that the town simply does not that many courses offered. The limited course offers may make each training session full, however, it is unrealistic to conclude from this that the majority of the people in Plaisville are engaged in working out and living a healthy life.
What is more, the company believed that there is also a massive market among school childer, because now the students are required to participate in the fitness-for-life program at school. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of this program is unkown. How much will it improve students’ awareness of leading a healthy life? Even if students’ awareness are improved, how many of them will actually embark on activities that promot their health. Plus, schoolchildren’s life style deeply affected by their parents since the parents are mainly in charge of the schoolchildren’s life. Therefore, if the parents live an unhealthy life, that may actually influence how these children view heath. As a result, it is very presumptuous to assume a promising market among these children.
In short, Nature’s Way’s arguments seemed to be reasonable at the first glance; however, in order to support these arguments, the aspects discussed need to be taken into consideration.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Unless Nature's Way can prove that these running shoes and exercise apperal are actually used in working out, the connection it drew between the sales data and Plainsville's healthy life style is invalid.
Error: apperal Suggestion: appeal
Sentence: What is more, the company believed that there is also a massive market among school childer, because now the Error: childer Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: Nevertheless, the effectiveness of this program is unkown.
Error: unkown Suggestion: unknown
Sentence: Even if students' awareness are improved, how many of them will actually embark on activities that promot their health.
Error: promot Suggestion: promote
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argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not really. suppose many courses are offered, then how to argue?
more arguments:
the increasing numbers in the local health club and the weight training and aerobics classes are due to the increase in the residents' number or there are some members who are non-residents in these classes
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 403 350
No. of Characters: 2054 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.48 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.097 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.779 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 128 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.389 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.251 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.722 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.298 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.508 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 53, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
... company assumed the high enrollment of the the fitness classes is because of people in...
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Line 5, column 53, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
... company assumed the high enrollment of the the fitness classes is because of people in...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, first, however, if, look, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, in short, as a result, first of all, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2168.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 403.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37965260546 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19547488363 2.78398813304 115% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533498759305 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 667.8 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.3118481222 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.444444444 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3888888889 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.44444444444 5.70786347227 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211166765631 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0639590064821 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0829140505297 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142694346712 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0981301005694 0.0628817314937 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.5979740519 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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