Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville. The store should prove to be very successful: Nature's Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, and clearly Plainsville is such an area. Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. The local health club has more members than ever, and the weight training and aerobics classes are always full. Finally, Plainsville's schoolchildren represent a new generation of potential customers: these schoolchildren are required to participate in a fitness-for-life program, which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise at an early age.
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.
As per the given argument Nature's Way - a chain business of selling health food and other health related products - is going to establish new franchise in the town of Plainsville with a hope of great profit; this franchise targets schoolchildren of the Plainsville. In order to shore up this claim of reasonable profit, several examples have been presented. However, on meticulous assay, the argument lacks many hard facts to fortify the claim, owing to which the assumption and the finally derived conclusion sounds utterly skeptical. Before I accede to the given argument, the author should address the concerns I am going to raise below.
First of all, the note presented by the Nature's Way mentions nothing about the products and services it offers to the customers. Without having information about the services Nature's Way going to deliver, it is would be fleet footed to say YES or NO to the claim. In the argument presented above, examples of exercise clothing, health club, and aerobic classes are accorded; however, the Nature Way might be preparing to sell football in the area - which might not be preferred by the customers. Clearly, the author of the above argument should have mentioned customer's preferences of the customers (which may be achieved after a survey) and the products and services it would deliver in the area.
Similarly, the another point of concern is why the Nature's Way targets schoolchildren only. The proportion of adults might be higher in the plainsville, for example. In this context, it would be better to target peoples of all the age-classes, and both the genders. Thus, the reason why it targets schoolchildren only needs to be made clear.
Finally, and probably most importantly, the Nature's Way unfairly assumes that success of existing health business in the plainsville - exercising clothes, weight training and aerobic classes - determines the certainty of business thrive of Natures Way too. It failed to consider the competitive effects of the existing companies already working in the Plainsville. In addition, without comparing the fee structures of Nature's Way and the existing companies, it would be really difficult to claim that Nature's Way is going to thrive in the Plainsville, so that this chain business store needs to make clear about its fee structures a boot before jumping to the conclusion that it would thrive.
Finally, at the end of the day, the argument made by the Nature's Way business group is comprised of several chink in armor. For a robust argument, the company need to address the concerns raised above. At the present state, the argument is going to be no dice to the concerned higher officials who are going to scrutinize it further.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: Now
... is would be fleet footed to say YES or NO to the claim. In the argument presented...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...he Nature Way might be preparing to sell football in the area - which might not b...
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Line 11, column 85, Rule ID: IS_COMPRISED_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprises' or 'consists of' or 'is composed of'?
Suggestion: comprises; consists of; is composed of
... made by the Natures Way business group is comprised of several chink in armor. For a robust ar...
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun chink seems to be countable; consider using: 'several chinks'.
Suggestion: several chinks
...ures Way business group is comprised of several chink in armor. For a robust argument, the co...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...esent state, the argument is going to be no dice to the concerned higher official...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...cerned higher officials who are going to scrutinize it further.
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Discourse Markers used:
['finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'similarly', 'so', 'thus', 'for example', 'in addition', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.263052208835 0.25644967241 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.170682730924 0.15541462614 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0481927710843 0.0836205057962 58% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0441767068273 0.0520304965353 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0240963855422 0.0272364105082 88% => OK
Prepositions: 0.112449799197 0.125424944231 90% => OK
Participles: 0.066265060241 0.0416121511921 159% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.78019604024 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0441767068273 0.026700313972 165% => OK
Particles: 0.00200803212851 0.001811407834 111% => OK
Determiners: 0.126506024096 0.113004496875 112% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0240963855422 0.0255425247493 94% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0120481927711 0.0127820249294 94% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2726.0 2731.13054187 100% => OK
No of words: 451.0 446.07635468 101% => OK
Chars per words: 6.044345898 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.57801047555 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.39689578714 0.378187486979 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.310421286031 0.287650121315 108% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.212860310421 0.208842608468 102% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.117516629712 0.135150697306 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78019604024 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 207.018472906 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474501108647 0.469332199767 101% => OK
Word variations: 53.0983599068 52.1807786196 102% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0555555556 23.2022227129 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.6909001535 57.7814097925 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.444444444 141.986410481 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0555555556 23.2022227129 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 3.58251231527 167% => OK
Readability: 56.0976841587 51.9672348444 108% => OK
Elegance: 1.8487394958 1.8405768891 100% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.457530573414 0.441005458295 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.140535683129 0.135418324435 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0698480126409 0.0829849096947 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.660987498098 0.58762219726 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.109973680742 0.147661913831 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.219650344003 0.193483328276 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0771817425083 0.0970749176394 80% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.532795228503 0.42659136922 125% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0330179308385 0.0774707102158 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.336068460197 0.312017818177 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0439349809141 0.0698173142475 63% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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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