The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company.
Several recent surveys indicate that home owners are increasingly eager to conserve energy. At the same time, manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, that are almost twice as energy efficient as those sold a decade ago. Also, new technologies for better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available to reduce the energy needed for home heating. Therefore, the total demand for electricity in our area will not increase—and may decline slightly. Since our three electric generating plants in operation for the past twenty years have always met our needs, construction of new generating plants will not be necessary.
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.
As author assumes that the demand of electricity will not increase in his area in future and it may decline slightly. he also states that three electric generating plants in operation for the last 20 years have always met their needs
and there will be no need of new generating plant. this argument is flawed for numerous reasons and it is based on unwarranted assumptions.
Firstly, author mentioned that according to a survey people are replacing their home appliances with almost twice energy-efficient appliances to conserve energy. this survey is dubious and arises many question like technology is evolving every second and scientists are able to discover more energy-efficient appliances with every passing day . are mediocre families able to replace their old appliances with the new ones? do they afford the prices of appliances by changing their old ones
with new ones? is money not a big issue for them ? it is obvious that the prices of more efficient devices are higher than the less efficient ones.
Secondly, another assumption on which his conclusion is based is expanding population. he said that in near future the there will be no need of extra generating plant. Here the question arises that is the population of that area will stay static in future? will it not grow with passing time? The expanding population is the major issue of world, ofltae.
Thirdly, he did not consider the industrial growth. is industrial expansion not necessary for the economy of the nation? why he did not consider industrial growth? industries play a significant role in the growy=th of the nation.
Furthermore, he assumed people will accommodate the new technologies for heating their homes like home insulation and solar heating. again this is based of many false assumption like people belonging to middle class are able to adopt and afford these technologies and again this assumption will give rise to many question like are all people of that area are opulent and spendthrift? do all of them will
be able to splurge a big amount of their income only for the cause of conserving energy? Those who do not have enough money to support their family , do these kind of people will spend money for this cause or they will like feed their families? and many questions arises.
Because the argument takes several unwarranted assumptions , it fails to make a convincing case that in future there will be no need of a new electricty generating plant.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2054.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 410.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00975609756 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73204956849 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480487804878 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 648.9 705.55239521 92% => 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: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.8778789425 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5833333333 119.503703932 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0833333333 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.70833333333 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 9.0 5.15768463074 174% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 26.0 5.25449101796 495% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0679764148726 0.218282227539 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0204341428686 0.0743258471296 27% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0310270517158 0.0701772020484 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0268370208788 0.128457276422 21% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0258705721738 0.0628817314937 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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