A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood. Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable.
The author concludes that the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood will be quite popular and profitable based on several reasons provided in the memorandum. The first reason provided by the author is that there are not currently operating restaurants in the city that specializes in seafood. Moreover, the majority of the family in the city are two-income families and the study has shown that these families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than did a decade ago but at the same time express concern about healthful eating. However, while the conclusion drawn by the author might hold water, it rests on several unfounded assumptions that, if not substantiated, attenuate the argument's persuasiveness. Therefore, the following points need to be addressed.
Firstly, the author elicited that the new restaurant Captain Seafood specializing in seafood will be quite popular and profitable, but did the author provide any relevant reasons to stick to the statement? This is a mere assumption without any solid grounds. The author hasn't provided any valid reasons regarding the food quality of the Captain Seafood restaurant. Moreover, the author hasn't talked anything about the pricing structure of the food at Captain Seafood. If a survey would have been taken for the new restaurant Captain Seafood all over the city, it would have been a plausible solution for setting the pricing structure and quality of the food.
Secondly, a nationwide study was held recently on the families. However, the author is comparing the results of the recent study with the results gained a decade ago. Ten years is a very long period, and several changes might be made throughout this period of time. It might be possible that the city is populated by other migrants from different cities or states in 10 year period and hence the study might cause fluctuations in the original result.
Moreover, it might be possible that the quality of Bay City restaurant is around its area is the paragon as compared to other restaurants. Hence, the 30% increase in the consumption of seafood seems plausible.
A careful analysis exposes the loopholes present in the argument by the author. The arguments do not seem to be strong enough to buttress the conclusion of Captain Seafood restaurant to be popular and profitable because all the reasons provided by the author are dubious and questionable. Therefore, the author must rethink and provide a logical and foolproof solution.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 403 350
No. of Characters: 2042 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.48 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.067 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.724 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.211 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.545 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.34 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.559 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.109 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 709, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
...at, if not substantiated, attenuate the arguments persuasiveness. Therefore, the followin...
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Line 3, column 271, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...n without any solid grounds. The author hasnt provided any valid reasons regarding th...
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Line 3, column 387, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...eafood restaurant. Moreover, the author hasnt talked anything about the pricing struc...
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Line 3, column 481, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had been'?
Suggestion: had been
...he food at Captain Seafood. If a survey would have been taken for the new restaurant Captain Se...
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Line 5, column 251, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...l changes might be made throughout this period of time. It might be possible that the city is ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2093.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 401.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21945137157 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80410827892 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488778054863 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 648.9 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.8348973048 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.157894737 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1052631579 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26315789474 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219010672744 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0743205521903 0.0743258471296 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0720530844313 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134743305562 0.128457276422 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594782652261 0.0628817314937 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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