The argument here states that the planning department of an investment firm should invest on Solario, a new manufacturer of solar-powered products. This argument fails to maintain several key factors on the basis of which it could be evaluated. To satisfy this conclusion, the author’s reasons that solar energy will soon become the most cost-effective and attractive than coal or oil as a source of electrical power. However, careful scrutiny of evidence reveals that it provides little justification to the author’s conclusion. Hence, the argument is considered incomplete or unsubstantiated.
First of all, the argument readily assumes that Costs have begun dropping for several types of equipment currently used to convert solar energy into electricity. This is merely and the assumption made without much solid ground. The argument does not mention the detail about the dropping rate. There can be a possibility that the cost of converting equipment is initially very high and still by dropping; its cost is higher than other electrical power. There is also a possibility that the cost is dropping only of low quality and brand equipment. However, the argument would have been better if it explicitly stated about dropping and recent cost of the solar-electricity converting equipment.
Secondly, the author argues here that some exciting new technologies for converting solar energy are now being researched and developed. This again is a weak analogy used by the argument and it does not demonstrate the clear correlation between development and research of new converting technologies and security of an investment. For instance, in many cases, it is found that many companies are pretending to lunch a new product to attract only a huge investment. The argument fails to explain the reliability and the rank of the company. It also fails to explain what sort of new technologies are under research and how those technologies will grow the profit of an investment.
Moreover, argument state that solar energy will soon become the most cost-effective and attractive than coal or oil as a source of electrical power. However, careful scrutiny of evidence reveals that it provides little support for the author’s statement in various critical aspects and raises skeptical questions. For example, what is the trend of the market of Solario’s product? Is the market solar-electricity converting equipment growing in recent years? Are there any interest groups who are seeking for a commission by making an investment on Solario? What will be the estimated payback period? Without the convincing answer to these questions, the reader is left with the impression that the author’s argument is more of a wishful thinking rather than substantive evidence.
In sum, the argument is unpersuasive as it stands. To bolster it further, the author must provide clear and more concrete information about the dropping rate of solar- electricity converting equipment and the comparison chart of the cost of this equipment to other technologies. The reliability of Solario and information about under developing technologies will help to strengthen the argument. The argument should also provide detail economic analysis to show strongly that why they have to invest in Solario.
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: o 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 514 350
No. of Characters: 2706 1500
No. of Different Words: 234 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.761 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.265 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.966 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 204 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 166 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 123 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 76 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.037 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.361 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.481 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.289 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.472 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.067 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, then, for example, for instance, sort of, first of all, in many cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 38.0 16.3942115768 232% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2795.0 2260.96107784 124% => OK
No of words: 514.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43774319066 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12739847245 2.78398813304 112% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463035019455 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 879.3 705.55239521 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.5636314823 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.518518519 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.037037037 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22222222222 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => 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: 0.365997264454 0.218282227539 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0917886111142 0.0743258471296 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102030638253 0.0701772020484 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197511008385 0.128457276422 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0684180675782 0.0628817314937 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.5979740519 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 98.500998004 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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.