The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of marketing at Dura-Sock, Inc.
"A recent study of our customers suggests that our company is wasting the money it spends on its patented Endure manufacturing process, which ensures that our socks are strong enough to last for two years. We have always advertised our use of the Endure process, but the new study shows that despite our socks' durability, our average customer actually purchases new Dura-Socks every three months. Furthermore, our customers surveyed in our largest market, northeastern United States cities, say that they most value Dura-Socks' stylish appearance and availability in many colors. These findings suggest that we can increase our profits by discontinuing use of the Endure manufacturing process."
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.
Here, the company's vice president cites that they eschew use of the Endure manufacturing process. To support his claim, he also cites that many customers who buy their socks, change socks after every three months. Hence, he bolster his claim by saying that the Endure manufacturing process which produces highly durable socks can be used till two years, is not helpful for their company's economy. Although, this kind of advantages, the vice president's claim made many assumptions and did not provide proper numerical data. Therefore, I refute this claim.
Initially, the author made very big assumption that the sample of people whom he choose for test, can be considered as a representative of their overall customers. If we say that this assumption is true, though it lacks in numerical data. We can understand this point of view by one simple example that there are 51 percent people who change his socks after three months, still, there are 49 percent of people who use their socks more than three months. So, we can't estimate exact number customers who change their socks after 3 months. To bolster his claim, the author reconcile his argument with numerical data of the people whom they use as sample.
Secondly, the author says that the Endure manufacturing process is costly and they can save money by replacing this process, though, he had not given information about new process. The new process-they will use in the place of the Endure process- has lower cost than Endure process. Is this new process is enough cheap that it produces socks for three month and can be used without any problem I just want to say that this new process might produces socks which are rarely used more than 1 month. At the end, the cost of socks to customers is increase for three months. Hence, the author should give information regarding new process.
At the end, he has not given the numerical data that how many profit they are going to get due to this modification? Is this profit is more than the old process? How one can ignore the process durability? The author would give information about relation between avoiding the Endure process and profit.
In conclusion, I just want to tell that the author made claim without giving information about new process, making assumptions and not providing relative numerical data. Due to this all loopholes, one can easily disprove this argument. If the author really wants to make a strong arguments, he should remove this loopholes from the claim.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 71, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...president cites that they eschew use of the Endure manufacturing process. To support his c...
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Line 1, column 231, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'bolsters'.
Suggestion: bolsters
...cks after every three months. Hence, he bolster his claim by saying that the Endure man...
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Line 1, column 264, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ce, he bolster his claim by saying that the Endure manufacturing process which produces hi...
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Line 3, column 82, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'chooses'.
Suggestion: chooses
...ption that the sample of people whom he choose for test, can be considered as a repres...
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Line 3, column 393, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'percents'?
Suggestion: percents
...after three months, still, there are 49 percent of people who use their socks more than...
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Line 5, column 32, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...mple. Secondly, the author says that the Endure manufacturing process is costly and the...
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Line 5, column 228, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...w process they will use in the place of the Endure process has lower cost than Endure pro...
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Line 5, column 246, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...l use in the place of the Endure process has lower cost than Endure process. Is t...
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Line 5, column 353, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'month' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'months'.
Suggestion: months
... cheap that it produces socks for three month and can be used without any problem I j...
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Line 7, column 58, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun profit seems to be countable; consider using: 'many profits'.
Suggestion: many profits
...s not given the numerical data that how many profit they are going to get due to this modif...
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Line 7, column 272, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...rmation about relation between avoiding the Endure process and profit. In conclusion, I...
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Line 9, column 281, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'argument'?
Suggestion: argument
...he author really wants to make a strong arguments, he should remove this loopholes from t...
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Line 9, column 309, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ke a strong arguments, he should remove this loopholes from the claim.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'hence', 'if', 'really', 'regarding', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'in conclusion', 'kind of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.255144032922 0.25644967241 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.150205761317 0.15541462614 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0720164609053 0.0836205057962 86% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0452674897119 0.0520304965353 87% => OK
Pronouns: 0.059670781893 0.0272364105082 219% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.106995884774 0.125424944231 85% => OK
Participles: 0.0288065843621 0.0416121511921 69% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.58637053042 2.79052419416 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0185185185185 0.026700313972 69% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0864197530864 0.113004496875 76% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0267489711934 0.0255425247493 105% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.022633744856 0.0127820249294 177% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2518.0 2731.13054187 92% => OK
No of words: 423.0 446.07635468 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.95271867612 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.57801047555 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.345153664303 0.378187486979 91% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.217494089835 0.287650121315 76% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.146572104019 0.208842608468 70% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.10401891253 0.135150697306 77% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58637053042 2.79052419416 93% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 207.018472906 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.449172576832 0.469332199767 96% => OK
Word variations: 48.6545706237 52.1807786196 93% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.039408867 110% => OK
Sentence length: 19.2272727273 23.2022227129 83% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.0869589128 57.7814097925 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.454545455 141.986410481 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2272727273 23.2022227129 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.545454545455 0.724660767414 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 3.58251231527 363% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 40.9766817107 51.9672348444 79% => OK
Elegance: 1.53225806452 1.8405768891 83% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.333120917422 0.441005458295 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.119493495026 0.135418324435 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0870299208723 0.0829849096947 105% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.516047224982 0.58762219726 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.118040428291 0.147661913831 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136156582941 0.193483328276 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0821838867426 0.0970749176394 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.380607855321 0.42659136922 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.09208969297 0.0774707102158 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223797935395 0.312017818177 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677014256364 0.0698173142475 97% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.33743842365 132% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 6.46551724138 139% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 14.657635468 130% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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