The market for the luxury-goods industry is on the decline. Recent reports show that a higher unemployment rate, coupled with consumer fears, has decreased the amount of money the average household spends on both essential and nonessential items, but especially on nonessential items. Since luxury goods are, by nature, nonessential, this market will be the first to decrease in the present economic climate, and luxury retailers should refocus their attention to lower-priced markets.
The argument that luxury retailers should refocus their attention to lower-priced markets is not completely sound, since it makes certain unwarranted assumptions.
First, the argument assumes an analogy that luxury goods are non-essential items. This assumption is invalid since some of luxury goods such as dish washing machine, air conditioner, television etc. are essential items for a household and not non-essential items.
Further, the argument assumes a causal relationship between higher employment rates coupled with consumer fear and reduced spending on non-essential items. However, the reduced spending on non-essential items could be due other factors such as change in the lifestyle of the people, government policies on non-essential items such as taxed incurred and increased prices of non-essential items.
Finally, the argument is based on reports whose reliability and representativeness is not presented. The reports could be unreliable due to substandard methods employed in the collection of the data and incorrect information given by respondents. Also, the reports could be based on samples which may not be representative of the entire consumer market.
Thus, the argument is not completely logically convincing. The evidence in support of the conclusion that high unemployment rate, coupled with consumer fear has reduced the spending on non-essential items does little to prove that conclusion, since it does not address the assumptions already raised. Ultimately, the argument might have been strengthened if the author could have shown that that there is no reason other than high unemployment rate coupled with consumer fear for the reduced spending on luxury goods, that the reports are authentic and representative of the entire consumer market and based his contention on facts upon luxury goods than non-essential goods.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 386, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: that
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, so, then, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 55.5748502994 54% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1584.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 277.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.71841155235 5.12650576532 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16116057453 2.78398813304 114% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.519855595668 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 705.55239521 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.7051167264 57.8364921388 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.0 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0833333333 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.27744765552 0.218282227539 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107795703093 0.0743258471296 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0790412290853 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145491920498 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0732630070371 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.3799401198 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 48.3550499002 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.19 12.5979740519 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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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.