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. Clearly, modifying showerheads to restrict water flow throughout all twelve buildings in the Sunnyside Towers complex will increase our profits further."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In the letter, the owner argues that the restriction of water flow throughout all twelve buildings in the Sunnyside Towers complex will increase the company’s profit. He supplements his argument by assuming that the water flow restriction applied to the first three buildings will save the expense and that there has been no problem with showers except for low water pressure since the adjustment. Although the argument may seem convincing at first, the lack of evidence leads readers to conclude that the argument is flawed on many grounds.
To begin with, the owner needs to provide solid evidence that the restriction of maximum water flow will result in the company’s savings. However, as the owner evinced in the letter, the actual readings of water usage have not been reported. In this respect, his expectation on the future decrease of the water usage is not convincing, for there are many other factors that can contribute to the increase of water usage. It is possible that the low water pressure that some residents have already complained about can make them use more of water. Therefore, the owner should provide more information about his conclusion on the impact of the restriction on the company’s savings.
In addition, more cogent pieces of evidence are needed on whether there would be no problem with the restriction in the long run. Since it has been only one month since the change has been made, so it is not guaranteed that it would not pose any problem in the long run. For example, the dissatisfaction with the low water pressure can substantially increase in the long run. Also, there might be compatibility issue regarding showerheads, since some showerheads would not support the low water pressure.
Furthermore, the owner should supplement his argument with more concrete evidence on whether the expand of the restriction to all twelve buildings will increase the company’s profit. Even if the aforementioned factors are all firmly resolved, the inherent conditions of the first three buildings could be drastically different from those of the remaining ones. It is possible that the shower heads of the remaining buildings are not suitable for low water pressure, increasing the expense for replacing the shower heads. Thus, the owner must also provide the information of the analysis on the possibility of the increase of the expense.
In conclusion, the owner’s argument is not persuasive owing to the lack of evidence on the impact of the change to the company’s saving, the long-term effect of the change, and the similarity between the inherent conditions of the first three buildings and the remaining ones. To bolster his argument, the owner must provide more information with regard to the short-term and the long-term effect of the adjustment on the company’s savings and the residents.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 463 350
No. of Characters: 2322 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.639 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.015 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.689 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 160 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 129 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.722 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.171 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.389 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.613 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.17 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 94, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... with more concrete evidence on whether the expand of the restriction to all twelve buildi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, regarding, so, therefore, thus, except for, for example, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2385.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 463.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15118790497 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80165972948 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.403887688985 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 734.4 705.55239521 104% => 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: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.6017328911 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.5 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7222222222 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.05555555556 5.70786347227 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218669336345 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.073934093096 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0768928479579 0.0701772020484 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122847659766 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0702713804399 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => 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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