"Over the past ten years, there has been a 20 percent decline in the size of the average audience at Classical Shakespeare Theatre productions. In spite of increased advertising, we are attracting fewer and fewer people to our shows, causing our profits to decrease significantly. We must take action to attract new audience members. The best way to do so is by instituting a 'Shakespeare in the Park' program this summer. Two years ago the nearby Avon Repertory Company started a 'Free Plays in the Park' program, and its profits have increased 10 percent since then. If we start a 'Shakespeare in the Park' program, we can predict that our profits will increase, too."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In the e-mail sent by the Marketing Director of Classical Shakespeare Theatre of Bardville, he recommends that a program named Shakespeare in the Park should be implemented this summer to attract new audience customers as their customers were declined rapidly with profit. This conclusion is made on the assumption that Avon Repertory Company started a free plays in the Park program and this program has profits increased by 10% and they expect the same will happen with their company. However, after more detailed facts are concerned and more light is shed on the issue, lack of answers through the arguments, leads me to question its validity.
First of all, Is the scenario same since 2 years? In other words, do people who were interested before 2 years feel the same now? It might be possible that people might be bored and they want some entertainment to have. In this way they might have opted for a play top watch and this lead to increase in the profits. Maybe people who were living in that area might leave the city now. If the above mentioned assumptions are true, then the argument is weakened.
Secondly, how good is the prediction made? Is the prediction accurate? How can someone be so sure about the increase in profits of a particular company? Just because it worked with one company that doesn’t mean it can work with every other company. Maybe the company which was successful has made a really good content for the play which attracted the customer. There is a possibility that there might be no competition 2 years back which in turn increased the profits. If the above mentioned scenario holds merit, then the argument doesn’t hold water.
Thirdly, are people really interested in plays now? It is possible that there was no entertainment 2 years back. Maybe there were no good movies or light shows happened at that time. In that case only possible entertainment will be the plays. If the above mentioned scenario is true, then the argument doesn’t hold strength.
To conclude, the argument stands as of now is considerably flawed. However, if more evidence is offered and answers to the questions are offered by Marketing Director then the argument can be possibly evaluated.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1865.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 375.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97333333333 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66800766282 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493333333333 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 705.55239521 81% => 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: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.9892926508 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.0869565217 119.503703932 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3043478261 23.324526521 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5652173913 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0625847981356 0.218282227539 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0162504267843 0.0743258471296 22% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0250935773841 0.0701772020484 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0329115421148 0.128457276422 26% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0243692972849 0.0628817314937 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 14.3799401198 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.3550499002 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.197005988 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.25 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.21 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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