A movie producer sent the following memo to the head of the movie studio.
“We need to increase the funding for the movie Working Title by 10% in order to ensure a quality product. As you know, we are working with a first-time director, whose only previous experience has been shooting commercials for a shampoo company. Since the advertising business is notoriously wasteful, it stands to reason that our director will expect to be able to shoot take after take, without concern for how much time is being spent on any one scene. In addition, while we have saved money by hiring relatively inexperienced assistant producers and directors, this savings in salary will undoubtedly translate to greater expenditures in paying the actors and unionized crew overtime for the extra hours they will spend on the set waiting for the assistant directors and producers to arrange things. If we don’t get this extra money, the movie is virtually assured to be a failure.”
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 author sates that due to the inexperience of the director ,the funding of the movie should be increased by 10% or else the movie is virtually assured to be a failure.The memo provided by the movie producer is flawed in many ways.The argument provides many unwarranted assumptions thus the argument totally lacks evidence which supports the claim and stands unpersuasive.
The threshold of the argument lies on the fact that the director is a first time director who has previous experience of shooting only commercials.The argument fails to provide evidence on the fact that the director will be productive if the funding for the movie is increased by 10%.
Not only directors who shoot commercials but also directors who shoot movies will not be able to shoot take after take unless they are satisfied with the scene, they don't care much about the time taken to shoot each scene.The time taken for a particular scene not only depends on the experience of the director but on various other factors like the skills of the actors ,the precision of the location,the cameraman,and even the weather on any given day.So the author provides an unsubstantiated assumption that the increase in funds will lead to shorter time taken to direct scenes.
The author also states that by hiring inexperienced assistant producers and directors ,the savings in salary will translate to greater expenditures in paying the actors and the crew .But for greater success of the film the whole unit should coalesce and function as a single whole unit.Only great directors or only great actors never lead to successful films.Even movies with inexperienced actors and directors ,directed on very short budgets have turned out to be successful.So this assumption also stands unpersuasive.
At the same time the author of the argument provides no evidence on why the fund should be increased by exactly 10%.And also he provides no evidence that on what purpose this extra 10% is to be spent on.He makes a vague assumption that the funding should be increased by 10% without stating the needs.
The close scrutiny of the argument states that the author is very vague about his statements which leads to a glaring gap in the memo.So in conclusion,The argument makes many unsubstantiated assumptions thus is totally flawed for many reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, so, thus, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1949.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 383.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08877284595 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84022947115 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462140992167 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 604.8 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 19.7664670659 30% => 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: 63.0 22.8473053892 276% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 125.545476488 57.8364921388 217% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 324.833333333 119.503703932 272% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 63.8333333333 23.324526521 274% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 7.5 5.70786347227 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 25.0 5.25449101796 476% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216938823971 0.218282227539 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126996101195 0.0743258471296 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665170048163 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126996101195 0.128457276422 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0665170048163 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 34.5 14.3799401198 240% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 7.53 48.3550499002 16% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 27.9 12.197005988 229% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 13.13 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.85 8.32208582834 118% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 27.0 12.3882235529 218% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 27.2 11.1389221557 244% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 28.0 11.9071856287 235% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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