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.
The advice provided by the firm seems logical based on the fact that these aberrant weather conditions will help in the sales of oil. But on closer examination, we can find that the evidence provided to support the rising value of Consolidated Industries is insufficient.
One of the major points in the argument is the author's assumption that the people are excessively dependent on oil for heating and will continue to remain so. Even during the 90 days of abnormalities the author does not mention the extent to which the oil consumption has increased. If the increase is not substantial it is hard to support that any supplier would have seen an increase in sales. It is possible that the same people preferred to use an alternative heating source such as electric heaters or coal chimneys which could have been cheaper. The author must provide details pertaining to the rise in sales of oil during the 90 days and it's effectiveness in terms of cost over alternative solutions to support his claim.
The agrgument states that new homes are being built in response to a population growth, which could mean that the local government is building facilities which are sufficient to accommodate the current population and it may not be planning for the future. Given that the weather has changed, were the same people able to cope up with it, how many people have fallen sick or faced serious illness? Without answering these questions it would be improper to believe that people here would stay any longer and not wish to migrate elsewhere. To support the argument, the author should support his claim by providing information that can support a rise in population.
Assuming that the oil is a major heating source and is on demand, one should be wary of the fact that new players can rise at any point and may provide better quality or price. Without considering local players who can dent the market of Consolidated, it is hard to say that Consolidated Industries will benefit from this climatic change. Since this advice is about an investment, one should also consider other domains in which Consolidated is running it's businesses and the author should provide details that can tell us about the state of other businesses and the effect of the climatic change over it's total revenue. Hence, it is hard to support the claim made by the firm just based on the evidence provided.
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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: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 448 350
No. of Characters: 2152 1500
No. of Different Words: 212 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.601 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.804 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.63 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 148 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.353 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.036 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.571 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 48, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...the major points in the argument is the authors assumption that the people are excessiv...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 137, Rule ID: CONTINUE_TO_REMAIN[1]
Message: Use simply 'remain'.
Suggestion: remain
...y dependent on oil for heating and will continue to remain so. Even during the 90 days of abnormal...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 284, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...hich the oil consumption has increased. If the increase is not substantial it is h...
^^
Line 7, column 663, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... that can support a rise in population. Assuming that the oil is a major heating...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2191.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 447.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90156599553 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69224850876 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485458612975 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 684.9 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.364461201 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.882352941 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2941176471 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.23529411765 5.70786347227 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0922358014047 0.218282227539 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0314234006141 0.0743258471296 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0297349947554 0.0701772020484 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0480522993693 0.128457276422 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0426862630678 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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.