The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment complex to its manager.
"One month ago, all the showerheads in the first three buildings of the Sunnyside Towers complex were modified to restrict maximum water flow to one-third of what it used to be. Although actual readings of water usage before and after the adjustment are not yet available, the change will obviously result in a considerable savings for Sunnyside Corporation, since the corporation must pay for water each month. Except for a few complaints about low water pressure, no problems with showers have been reported since the adjustment. I predict that modifying showerheads to restrict water flow throughout all twelve buildings in the Sunnyside Towers complex will increase our profits even more dramatically."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The author claims that modifying showerheads to restrict water flow throughout all twelve buildings in the Sunnyside Towers complex will increase their profits even more dramatically. In order to bolster this claim author has put forward following evidences. One of them is after restricting maximum water flow to one-third of what it used to be in the first three buildings. However, in the evidences provided by author there are lot of assumptions, flaws and illogical rationale he made to support the arguments. In order to support the argument author should go through several discussions below.
Firstly, can be conclusion be made on overall usage of water as water usage readings before and after the adjustment are unknown? The author here assumes that by reducing water flow for three building might have reduced overall usage for complex. However, it is possible that the consumption in the houses other than this might have been increased by a huge amount which could contribute to overall increase in water consumption. Even though if the overall consumption might have been decreased, it might be the case where at time of water flow restriction the residents of these three houses didn't use much of water because of less water usage at that time. It could also be possible that the residents of these three might be on a trip to some other city. Thus these type of questionable premises should be answered to strengthen the argument.
Secondly, will reducing water flow throughout all twelve buildings in Sunnyside towers complex contribute to reduced overall consumption? reducing waterflow doesn't guarantee reduction in overall consumption. For instance, since the water flow reduced people tend to spend more time under the shower as they feel that there is enough pressure to get remove foam on the body. This could lead to overall increase in the consumption of water which will again contribute to overall increase in the water expenses of Sunnside Towers.
Finally, is it reasonable to assume that prices of water doesn't increase each month? it is possible that water price may increase in coming months. Though the overall water consumption in Sunnyside towers is reduced, it may not guarantee the decrease in total expenses of water of Sunny side towers. For instance, let us take a case where a resident pay cent for every ounce they use. Let us assume that in the following month it was made 2 cents. Even though water consumption is reduced by one third, still the overall spend of water of complex is more this month than previous. Thus only decreasing water flow may not increase overall profits.
In a final summary, the argument is weak and unconvincing. Thus, the answers to above questions needs to answered in order to validate author's recommendations. However, report fails to answer these questions and as a result, the suggestion that restricting water flow in all twelve building in Sunnyside Towers will increase profits is dubious and as of now the authenticity of argument falls flat.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 594, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...ion the residents of these three houses didnt use much of water because of less water...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 759, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... might be on a trip to some other city. Thus these type of questionable premises sho...
^^^^
Line 7, column 16, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'reduce'
Suggestion: reduce
...gthen the argument. Secondly, will reducing water flow throughout all twelve buildi...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 139, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Reducing
...tribute to reduced overall consumption? reducing waterflow doesnt guarantee reduction in...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 158, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...overall consumption? reducing waterflow doesnt guarantee reduction in overall consumpt...
^^^^^^
Line 10, column 58, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...asonable to assume that prices of water doesnt increase each month? it is possible tha...
^^^^^^
Line 10, column 86, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...es of water doesnt increase each month? it is possible that water price may increa...
^^
Line 10, column 582, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...mplex is more this month than previous. Thus only decreasing water flow may not incr...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thus, for instance, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 55.5748502994 137% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2545.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 499.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1002004008 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68471711604 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432865731463 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 793.8 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.0079993601 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.8 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.96 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.250923973364 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0758495958332 0.0743258471296 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0888244833074 0.0701772020484 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159255515401 0.128457276422 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0643457775455 0.0628817314937 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 594, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...ion the residents of these three houses didnt use much of water because of less water...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 759, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... might be on a trip to some other city. Thus these type of questionable premises sho...
^^^^
Line 7, column 16, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'reduce'
Suggestion: reduce
...gthen the argument. Secondly, will reducing water flow throughout all twelve buildi...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 139, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Reducing
...tribute to reduced overall consumption? reducing waterflow doesnt guarantee reduction in...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 158, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...overall consumption? reducing waterflow doesnt guarantee reduction in overall consumpt...
^^^^^^
Line 10, column 58, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...asonable to assume that prices of water doesnt increase each month? it is possible tha...
^^^^^^
Line 10, column 86, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...es of water doesnt increase each month? it is possible that water price may increa...
^^
Line 10, column 582, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...mplex is more this month than previous. Thus only decreasing water flow may not incr...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thus, for instance, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 55.5748502994 137% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2545.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 499.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1002004008 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68471711604 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432865731463 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 793.8 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.0079993601 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.8 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.96 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.250923973364 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0758495958332 0.0743258471296 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0888244833074 0.0701772020484 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159255515401 0.128457276422 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0643457775455 0.0628817314937 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
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.