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.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be addressed in order to decide whether the conclusion and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to the questions would help to evaluate the conclusion
In this argument, the author concludes that the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be known and be lucrative at Bay City. This is based on some premises as stated in the prompt which if correct, will validate the conclusion. For this to be true, the author needs to answer three questions or provide evidence to support this claim and bolster the credibility of the recommendation.
First of all, is the study the author referencing in his submission representative of the people of Bay City? Is 30% as significant as the author is painting it? The author needs to provide evidence that the participants of the ‘recent’ study as indicated is representative of the population of Bay City. If the study covers the different classes of citizens, the recommendation could hold true. However, if the population responsible for the increase in sales are majorly the elites or middle class, which probably constitute a small amount of the community, this recommendation doesn’t hold water and as such should be re-examined.
Secondly, the author assumes that the absence of an operating restaurant with seafood specialty in Bay City is responsible for the increase sales and a ground for the new restaurant to thrive. Also, the writer cited a nationwide study where it is noted that most two income families eat less home-made meals and the majority of Bay City residents are two income families. What if the larger percentage of the residents of Bay City prefers to eat home cooked meal? Is the nationwide study applicable to the dwellers of Bay City? For this assumption to hold true, the writer needs to answer the questions stated above for his recommendation to hold true for the success of the new restaurant.
Finally, the author assumes that the new restaurant will be popular and profitable because the residents of Bay City are more concerned about healthy eating. What gives the author the assurance that the new restaurant will meet the standard of healthful eating by the people of Bay City? What gives the impression that the absence of any other seafood restaurant is not due to low patronage by the residents? What if the people that patronize specialty restaurants are visitors or individuals on vacation in Bay City? The author needs to provide strong answers to the questions above to substantiate the claim that the restaurant would be popular and profitable if established in Bay City.
In conclusion, the premises on which the writer makes the conclusion are feeble and need to be strengthened by providing relevant answers to the questions as enumerated above. With good responses, the conclusion could hold true however if the responses are found wanting, the conclusion will be non-plausible at best.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 456 350
No. of Characters: 2252 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.621 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.939 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.883 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 157 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 71 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.976 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.354 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.563 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.112 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 215, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
... premises as stated in the prompt which if correct, will validate the conclusion. ...
^^
Line 7, column 410, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... due to low patronage by the residents? What if the people that patronize specialty ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, well, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2315.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 455.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08791208791 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95048376132 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.413186813187 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 720.9 705.55239521 102% => 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
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.6177094885 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.75 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.75 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240201365286 0.218282227539 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0873694218953 0.0743258471296 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0746212124227 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129674421098 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0823479405237 0.0628817314937 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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