"A recent study of our customers suggests that our company is wasting the money it spends on its patented Endure manufacturing process, which ensures that our socks are strong enough to last for two years. We have always advertised our use of the Endure process, but the new study shows that despite our socks' durability, our average customer actually purchases new Dura-Socks every three months. Furthermore, our customers surveyed in our largest market, northeastern United States cities, say that they most value Dura-Socks' stylish appearance and availability in many colors. These findings suggest that we can increase our profits by discontinuing use of the Endure manufacturing process."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
From a recent survey of the customers of the company which manufactures socks, it is proposed that the company should discontinue their patented endure manufacturing process to increase the profits. This is based on the understanding from the survey that customer of their largest market values colors and availability of the sock the most. But there are few questions which need to be answered before such a proposal can be accepted.
Firstly, the company is considering the results from only its largest market which is northeastern United States cities while the company might have missed the bigger picture as it may be have a significant global footprint in the market of sock, where the customers may actually prefer the company sock for its durability. Thus, they might have missed out on the feedback and reviews from the global market which can impact the company's overall profit. If this is considered true, then the companies survey results are misleading and may not fetch profit to the company by discarding the endure manufacture process.
Secondly, the company is under the assumption that customers most value their socks for their availability and color, while the customer might have considered durability of the company sock as the basic feature and thus, didn't mention it in the survey. If this is true, then discarding the endure manufacture process will lead to more loss then profit for the company.
Lastly, company has missed out one question from the survey which is why customers love their socks over other company socks. What makes the socks of the company stand out when compared to its competitors. They are concerned more about what customers value more in their socks and not why they prefer their socks over other companies’ socks. If above question is also included in the survey, then it may change the view of the company over endure manufacture process.
Considering all the above questions, it can be concluded that the above proposal is flawed, and it cannot be accepted to discard the endure manufacturing process to increase the profits of the company.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 347 350
No. of Characters: 1719 1500
No. of Different Words: 143 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.316 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.954 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.557 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.692 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.284 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.443 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.67 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 587, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...tch profit to the company by discarding the endure manufacture process. Secondly, the c...
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Line 5, column 223, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...any sock as the basic feature and thus, didnt mention it in the survey. If this is tr...
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Line 5, column 288, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...urvey. If this is true, then discarding the endure manufacture process will lead to more l...
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Line 5, column 342, Rule ID: LESS_MORE_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'than'?
Suggestion: than
...ufacture process will lead to more loss then profit for the company. Lastly, comp...
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Line 9, column 131, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...d, and it cannot be accepted to discard the endure manufacturing process to increase the p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1769.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 346.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11271676301 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64402693107 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.433526011561 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 549.9 705.55239521 78% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.2853545199 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.076923077 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6153846154 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.15384615385 5.70786347227 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193548783583 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0871173368597 0.0743258471296 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0446718718397 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122449480858 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0379945458726 0.0628817314937 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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