"Recently, we signed a contract with the Fly-Away Pest Control Company to provide pest control services at our warehouse in Palm City, but last month we discovered that over $20,000 worth of food there had been destroyed by pest damage. Meanwhile, the Buzzoff Pest Control Company, which we have used for many years in Palm City, continued to service our warehouse in Wintervale, and last month only $10,000 worth of the food stored there had been destroyed by pest damage. This difference in pest damage is best explained by the negligence of Fly-Away."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author of the argument purportedly highlights that the performance of Buzz-off pest Control Company is better than Fly-away Company due to the fact only 10,000 worth of foods has destroyed during last month. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which some critical, yet ignored questions need to be addressed.
The first assumption that lacks some semblance of truth and can be overtly impugned is that the author compared two different cities for pest control services by two companies. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether location and climate could have effects on pest control. One point that should be considered is that climate condition could have a negative effect on pest control since pest like to grow in wetter and moisture climate, there is a possibility that Palm City is located in a wet location and Winterville is located in a dry place. So, in this case, pest control would be harder to control and the amount of foods spoilage will increase drastically.
Furthermore, the author holds the view that the amount of foods destroyed by Buzz off Company were fewer than foods destroyed in Palm city. Although it might seem tenable at a face, it has some defects since you can always ask this question if destroyed foods could determine the superiority of the company. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that the author does not provide any information about workers in both companies whether they are dexterous or not. Maybe workers in the Buzz off company worked better during last month and workers in Palm City were not cautious enough to work properly. Moreover, there is not enough information and data about various months due to the fact that it is not reliable to trust a company just by the result of a month.
Putting the two previous assumptions aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author foods are stored in different cities and the amount of foods damaged is different as well. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if two cities stored foods in the same way, for a determined period of time. One point that should not go unnoticed is that maybe foods stored at Palm city are for previous years and they have been damaged for a long time, remained in the store. In this way, it is crystal clear that the amount of foods destroyed In the Palm City is more than Winterville, which there is a possibility that less damaged foods have been stored.
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are a number of questions having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 490 350
No. of Characters: 2280 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.705 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.653 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.41 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 151 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 69 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.229 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.564 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.116 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 354, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...foods in the same way, for a determined period of time. One point that should not go unnoticed...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 217, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...could add to the logic of each premise.
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, well, while, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.6327345309 168% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2334.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 490.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76326530612 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47326731848 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44693877551 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 711.9 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.5073029801 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.666666667 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2222222222 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61111111111 5.70786347227 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241101341683 0.218282227539 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0770922067485 0.0743258471296 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0699306585695 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127915366214 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0732941404226 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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