The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a company that builds shopping malls around the country.
"The surface of a section of Route 101, paved just two years ago by Good Intentions Roadways, is now badly cracked with a number of dangerous potholes. In another part of the state, a section of Route 40, paved by Appian Roadways more than four years ago, is still in good condition. In a demonstration of their continuing commitment to quality, Appian Roadways recently purchased state-of-the-art paving machinery and hired a new quality-control manager. Therefore, I recommend hiring Appian Roadways to construct the access roads for all our new shopping malls. I predict that our Appian access roads will not have to be repaired for at least four years."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The vice president of a corporation that sets up shopping malls across the country advocates hiring Appian Roadways as the contractor for constructing access roads to the new shopping malls being constructed. In support of this statement, the vice president presents examples of how Appian Roadways has paved Route 40 more than 4 years ago which is still in good condition. On the other hand, Route 101 paved by another firm, Good Intentions Roadways, barely 2 years ago is already damaged. Looking at this analysis carefully we see that it is not watertight and that a better analysis must be performed before reaching conclusions. The following are a few concerns regarding the recommendation given.
The vice president while analysing the two firms states makes an implicit assumption that Route 101 and Route 40 are comparable. Indeed, the fact that Route 101 became cracked within 2 years of its construction could be due to a number of factors. For instance, the region may have seen harsher climatic conditions, such as heavy storms and rain or a greater variation in temperature leading to continued contraction and expansion of the road surface. The traffic along Route 101 may be greater as compared to Route 40 leading to greater stress on the road surface. Hence we cannot state conclusively that Appian Roadways is a better road construction firm simply based on the conditions of two different highways and without any other corroborative evidence. Questions need to be asked regarding whether the highways face similar weather conditions or traffic flows. Also, a larger sample size of highways for comparison would help.
The second point made is that Appian Roadways has purchased state-of-the-art paving machinery and hired a new quality-control manager, with an assumption that it would enhance the quality of output. This inference is questionable since it does not answer questions regarding how competent the new quality-control manager is. Indeed his qualifications and abilities must be considered before viewing this point positively. Also, any machinery is only as good as the contractors who operate it. Hence, the actual, on-ground advantage that this machinery gives must be scrutinized carefully. Also, the final conclusion is drawn with regards to paving access roads to shopping malls. The technology required for this use case may be markedly different for other cases, for instance, highways. Hence whether the new machinery would lead to an enhanced quality of construction for access roads is questionable.
This leads to the last point which must be scrutinized before any concrete conclusions can be reached. The vice president concludes that Appian Roadways' ability for constructing good quality highways also percolates into the ability to construct access roads. Though there is a certain degree of correlation between the two, this conclusion may be imprecise. Indeed the technologies required to construct highways may be different from access roads. Some skills required by employees (such as quality control managers, technicians and engineers) for a such a job may be somewhat orthogonal to highway construction. One possible reason for this is that the two environments differ considerably. The highway routes may be in predominantly rural areas while access roads for shopping malls are in a primarily urban landscape.
Considering the above points raised we note the analysis falls short in certain aspects when it concludes that Appian Roadways must be hired for paving access roads. A better study of the capabilities of Appian Roadways viz-a-viz their urban construction abilities needs to be performed before this conclusion can be reached.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 29 15
No. of Words: 581 350
No. of Characters: 3061 1500
No. of Different Words: 272 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.91 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.269 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.908 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 233 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 180 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 136 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 96 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.034 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.446 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.724 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.265 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.448 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.077 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 496, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
... traffic along Route 101 may be greater as compared to Route 40 leading to greater...
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Line 5, column 567, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... to greater stress on the road surface. Hence we cannot state conclusively that Appia...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 326, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Indeed,
...ent the new quality-control manager is. Indeed his qualifications and abilities must b...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 790, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...or other cases, for instance, highways. Hence whether the new machinery would lead to...
^^^^^
Line 13, column 360, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Indeed,
... two, this conclusion may be imprecise. Indeed the technologies required to construct ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, look, may, regarding, second, so, still, while, for instance, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3132.0 2260.96107784 139% => OK
No of words: 580.0 441.139720559 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98600381566 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 204.123752495 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481034482759 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 948.6 705.55239521 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 19.7664670659 147% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.8048923415 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.62068965517 5.70786347227 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.20758483034 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.138114567615 0.218282227539 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0451333353753 0.0743258471296 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589738229147 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0919472745284 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0778096854584 0.0628817314937 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => 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: 14.04 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 98.500998004 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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