The following appeared in a memorandum to the planning department of an investment firm:
"Costs have begun dropping for several types of equipment currently used to convert solar energy into electricity. Moreover, some exciting new technologies for converting solar energy are now being researched and developed. Hence we can expect that solar energy will soon become most cost effective and attractive than coal or oil as a source of electrical power. We should, therefore, encourage investment in Solario, a new manufacturer of solar-powered products. After all, Solario's chief executive was once on the financial planning team for Ready-to-Ware, a software engineering firm that has shown remarkable growth since its recent incorporation."
The arguer has failed to convince us that an investment of the specific investment firm in the Solario manufacturing company will be a profitable one. The argument, as it stands, is based on questionable assumptions and a faulty line of reasoning, a fact which renders it over-simplistic and unconvincing.
First of all, the arguer does not specify whether the cost drop for some, but not all, equipment is temporary nor gives any evidence regarding the current prices, the expected prices and the time frame of these hypotheses. The cost of this equipment could still be too high for manufacturing...
- The following appeared in a report presented for discussion at a meeting of the directors of a company that manufactures parts for heavy machinery:“The falling revenues that the company is experiencing coincide with delays in manufacturing. These delays, 80
- Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than 80
- The following was excerpted from the speech of a spokesperson for Synthetic Farm Products Inc Many farmers who invested in the equipment needed to make the switch from synthetic to organic fertilizers and pesticides feel that it would be too expensive to 87
- Argument Topic: "The following is taken from a memo from the advertising director of the Super Screen Movie Production Company. "According to a recent report from our marketing department, during the past year, fewer people attended Super Screen-produced 50
- The following is from a recent email by the Diord Corp Human Resources manager Tobor Technologies found that mental health problems and mental illness were responsible for about 15 percent of employee sick days Tobor amended its employee insurance pla 70
Comments
Why it says 0 score? Is it a
Why it says 0 score? Is it a bug or did you forget to rate it? :)
Sorry, sometimes the page is
Sorry, sometimes the page is cached and ignored the rate.
testbig tech support
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
----------------
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 397 350
No. of Characters: 2116 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.464 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.33 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.107 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 160 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 102 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 71 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.353 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.202 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.074 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5