The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of Movies Galore, a chain of
video rental stores.
“In order to reverse the recent decline in our profits, we must reduce operating expenses at
Movies Galore’s ten video rental stores. Since we are famous for our special bargains, raising
our rental prices is not a viable way to improve profits. Last month our store in downtown
Marston significantly decreased its operating expenses by closing at 6:00 P.M. rather than
9:00 P.M. and by reducing its stock by eliminating all movies released more than five years
ago. Therefore, in order to increase profits without jeopardizing our reputation for offering
great movies at low prices, we recommend implementing similar changes in our other nine
Movies Galore stores.”
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.
In the memorandum, the owner of Movies Galore recommends that, in order to solve the problem of decrease in profits at their store, they need to reduce their operating expenses in all their ten stores like the store in downtown Marston did. While the owner’s recommendation might be valid, it rests on several unfounded assumptions, that if true, will drastically weakens the persuasiveness of the argument. Thus, these three questions need to be answered to consider the validity of the argument.
Firstly, does closing at 6 pm rather than 9 pm have the same effect it had in downtown Marston in the other stores? It is possible that, the people in the areas the other stores are located prefer to or go out more In later times after 6pm. Perhaps the customers at downtown Marston are majorly old people who might like going out to the rentals early in the day and the customers at the other stores are majorly young peoples and middle age who are fine going out later to rent a movie. If these scenarios are true, then, the owner’s argument about the closing time is greatly weakened.
Secondly, does the customers of the other Movies Galore store like newer movies or the ones released more than five years ago? It is possible the customers at the store downtown Marston likes latest movies which might have caused and increase in profit, but these might not be the case in the other stores. The customers of the other stores might like older movies and eliminating them from the stock may lead to more decline in profits. These might even cause a substantial loss of customers. If the above true, the owner’s argument about eliminating movies older than five years from the stock does not hold water.
Finally, does closing the store early at 6pm and eliminating movies that are five years old and above have any correlation to reversing the decline in profit? Perhaps, the owner has erroneously evaluated the effect of closing the store at 6 pm and eliminating old stock on the profits decline. If this above argument has merit, then, the owner’s argument is greatly flawed.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to dependent on unwarranted assumptions. The above three questions need to be answered in order to evaluate the validity of the author’s recommendation. The customer’s visiting time, their preferences and the accuracy of the author’s conclusion all need to be considered. If the author is able to provide answers to the questions, then it will be possible to fully evaluate the validity of the recommendation.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 438 350
No. of Characters: 2081 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.575 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.751 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.562 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.053 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.864 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.632 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.535 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.132 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 365, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'weaken'
Suggestion: weaken
...mptions, that if true, will drastically weakens the persuasiveness of the argument. Thu...
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Line 4, column 186, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'likes the latest'.
Suggestion: likes the latest
...customers at the store downtown Marston likes latest movies which might have caused and incr...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2152.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 438.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91324200913 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68912169538 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.426940639269 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 674.1 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6638239472 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.263157895 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0526315789 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.89473684211 5.70786347227 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => 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: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222003887118 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0686184869666 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0753127488566 0.0701772020484 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128148064759 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0712774729596 0.0628817314937 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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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.