The following appeared in a memo from the president of Viva-Tech, a manufacturer of high-tech medical equipment.
"In order to reduce costs, we should close some of our existing small assembly plants and build a large central plant. Grandview would be an ideal location for this new plant. First, of all the locations that we have considered, Grandview has the largest adult population, so that we will be able to staff our plant quickly and easily. Secondly, since the average wages earned by workers in Grandview is less than that in the other locations, we should be able to keep production costs low. Last, as an inducement for us to build there, Grandview's town council has offered to allow us to operate for the first three years without paying city taxes."
The president of Viva-Tech claims that to reduce the production cost for the high tech medical equipments, the company should replace some of the small assembly plants with a large central plant and cites that the town of Grandview will be an ideal location to set up the plant. The author's conclusion may not necessarily be correct, because it is arrived at, by a line of reasoning that stands on certain baseless assumptions, which if not warranted will render the conclusion baseless.
First of all the president readily assumes that since the town of Grandview has the largest adult population, it will be able to staff the plant quickly and easily. This is merely an assumption without much solid ground. It does not provide information about the prerequisite relevant skillset of the staff required in the setup and operation phase of the plants. It is likely that the town of Grandview is known for their agro industries and has most of the adult population without any technical knowledge necessary to work in a high-tech equipment manufacturing plant. This incompleteness adds ambiguity to the argument.
Futhermore, the president demonstrates only a partial a correlation between setting up a large plant in the town of Grandview and keeping the production costs low. Though low wages for the workers will help in reducing the operating costs of the plant, the president does not provide necessary details about any other factor responsible such as a change in the transportaion cost. If the town of Grandview is remote to most of the places in the country or does not have any proper road or railway connectivity for commute, it may ultimately lead to an increase in the basic transportaion cost for both, procurement and delivery of products by the company. This will render the efforts of keeping production costs low ineffective.
Finally, the president cites that Grandview's town council has offered to operate for the first three years without paying city taxes. However, a careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support for the author's conclusion. The author fails to recognize the implications of taxation in the production costs post three years of opertation of the plant.
Though there are several issues with the president's reasoning at present, with research and clarification, he could improve his argument significantly. Had the president provided more clear evidemce, perhaps by ways of a reliable survey or detailed stastistical analysis, the argument could have been strengthened even further.
In sum, because of the above reasons, we could conclude that the president's position is prone to acute questioning and hence open to debate.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: It does not provide information about the prerequisite relevant skillset of the staff required in the setup and operation phase of the plants.
Error: skillset Suggestion: skillet
Sentence: It is likely that the town of Grandview is known for their agro industries and has most of the adult population without any technical knowledge necessary to work in a high-tech equipment manufacturing plant.
Error: high-tech Suggestion: higher
Error: agro Suggestion: ago
Sentence: Though low wages for the workers will help in reducing the operating costs of the plant, the president does not provide necessary details about any other factor responsible such as a change in the transportaion cost.
Error: transportaion Suggestion: transportation
Sentence: If the town of Grandview is remote to most of the places in the country or does not have any proper road or railway connectivity for commute, it may ultimately lead to an increase in the basic transportaion cost for both, procurement and delivery of products by the company.
Error: may Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: transportaion Suggestion: transportation
Sentence: The author fails to recognize the implications of taxation in the production costs post three years of opertation of the plant.
Error: opertation Suggestion: operation
Sentence: Had the president provided more clear evidemce, perhaps by ways of a reliable survey or detailed stastistical analysis, the argument could have been strengthened even further.
Error: evidemce Suggestion: evidence
Error: stastistical Suggestion: statistical
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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: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 437 350
No. of Characters: 2228 1500
No. of Different Words: 227 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.572 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.098 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.848 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 136 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.706 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.646 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.412 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.329 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.605 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.072 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 135, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... equipments, the company should replace some of the small assembly plants with a large cent...
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Line 1, column 284, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ideal location to set up the plant. The authors conclusion may not necessarily be corre...
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Line 1, column 435, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
... on certain baseless assumptions, which if not warranted will render the conclusio...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ll render the conclusion baseless. First of all the president readily assum...
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Line 5, column 100, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... town of Grandview has the largest adult population, it will be able to staff the...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eness adds ambiguity to the argument. Futhermore, the president demonstrates...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... production costs low ineffective. Finally, the president cites that Grandv...
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Line 13, column 238, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...rovides little credible support for the authors conclusion. The author fails to recogni...
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Line 17, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... years of opertation of the plant. Though there are several issues with the...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ve been strengthened even further. In sum, because of the above reasons, we...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, however, if, may, so, then, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2299.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 437.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26086956522 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89801372038 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533180778032 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 695.7 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.9035280689 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.235294118 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7058823529 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23529411765 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214945999827 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0623973996993 0.0743258471296 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0987648031006 0.0701772020484 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106633400292 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0976832406855 0.0628817314937 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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