The following recommendation appeared in a memo from the mayor of the town of Hopewell.
"Two years ago, the nearby town of Ocean View built a new municipal golf course and resort hotel. During the past two years, tourism in Ocean View has increased, new businesses have opened there, and Ocean View's tax revenues have risen by 30 percent. Therefore, the best way to improve Hopewell's economy — and generate additional tax revenues — is to build a golf course and resort hotel similar to those in Ocean View."
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.
In this argument, the author concludes that Hopewell should follow the path of Oceanview to increase its tourism revenue. This conclusion is based on the idea that Hopewell and Oceanview are similar cities, and that nothing has changed for the past 2 years. However, in coming to this conclusion, the author has made several unjustified assumptions that severely undermines the validity of the argument.
The biggest logical leap in the argument is that, the author assumes that the policy that worked in ocean view will also yield similar results in Hopewell. Hopewell residents might not have the same amount of disposable income as the residents of ocean view, or Hopewell might not have as many tourist attractions as Oceanview. Therefore, Hopewell’s economy won’t necessarily improve even if the resort and golf course were built. In order to strengthen this part of the argument, the author must provide evidence on the similarities between Oceanview and Hopewell.
Further, the author makes the logical leap that the economy has remained the same for the last 2 years. Building the resort and golf course might have been feasible 2 years ago in ocean view, but assuming that similar economic conditions exists in the present time is fallacious . The economy could have a downturn during the past 2 year, which would imply that the disposable income of people also could have reduced. The author has also not considered if there were any other golf courses or resorts nearby, because this would mean increased competition and reduced footfall.
In conclusion, the argument presented is considerably flawed by virtue of its reliance on many unwarranted assumptions. Additional information about the current economic situation, and the similarities between Oceanview and Hopewell is required to prove the hypothesis beyond a doubt
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 20 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 293 350
No. of Characters: 1515 1500
No. of Different Words: 146 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.137 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.171 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.625 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 118 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.538 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 3.973 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.538 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.378 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.596 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.074 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 279, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...exists in the present time is fallacious . The economy could have a downturn durin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, then, therefore, well, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1561.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 292.0 441.139720559 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34589041096 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76738568166 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.530821917808 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 490.5 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 22.1511750526 57.8364921388 38% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 120.076923077 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4615384615 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.92307692308 5.70786347227 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156294984272 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0556103295004 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0521526575955 0.0701772020484 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0865021018835 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.066321955869 0.0628817314937 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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