Several recent surveys indicate that home owners are increasingly eager to conserve energy. At the same time, manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, that are almost twice as energy efficient as those sold a decade ago. Also, new technologies for better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available to reduce the energy needed for home heating. Therefore, the total demand for electricity in our area will not increase — and may decline slightly. Since our three electric generating plants in operation for the past twenty years have always met our needs, construction of new generating plants will not be necessary.
The memorandum appearing above claims that, construction of new power generation plants is unnecessary as the current infrastructure is able to satiate the requirements. The author also argues that with the improvement in efficiency of appliances being used and the improvement in construction and design will further reduce this demand and the existing power stations will be able to support those demands in the future too. The author’s argument is based on a lot of assumptions which if are proven to be unwarranted may weaken the argument.
Firstly, the memorandum is based on a survey about which the author provides no further information. It is assumed the survey is has covered a sufficient sample size and the questionnaire is comprehensive enough for it to be considered a valid survey. The conclusions drawn from the survey are also based on the assumption that the participants are going to act upon the willingness to conserve energy in the near future. These, assumptions if proven wrong is weaken the author’s case to stay the construction of new power plants.
Furthermore, the memorandum claims that manufactures are marketing energy-efficient appliances and that better home insulation and passive solar heating options are available. This statement is used to imply that the power consumption will reduce or not increase based on the assumption that, all the residents in the area of service have or will adopt these changes. This premise assumes that all current installation will be replaced without taking into consideration the lifespan of the current installations.
Even if the assumption so far prove to be valid, the authors concluding remark is based on an assumption that may undercut the entire case built so far. The author states that with the increased energy efficiency in appliance and design improvements, the current power stations will be able to support the community for the foreseeable future. This is based on the assumption that the off-set due to increased energy efficiency is more than sufficient to accommodate new installations (residential, commercial, etc.) and stay within the limits of the current power generation capacity.
Therefore, in conclusion the argument set forth by the author is based on a lot of assumptions which, if proven to false may weaken the argument. If the author is able to prove the credibility of these assumptions then the argument can be further strengthened.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 390 350
No. of Characters: 2017 1500
No. of Different Words: 173 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.444 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.172 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.07 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.005 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.371 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.607 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 427, 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.
...upport those demands in the future too. The author's argument is based on a lo...
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Line 1, column 493, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
... is based on a lot of assumptions which if are proven to be unwarranted may weaken...
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Line 3, column 461, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'weakened'.
Suggestion: weakened
.... These, assumptions if proven wrong is weaken the author's case to stay the cons...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 31, Rule ID: PROVE_PROOF[2]
Message: Did you mean 'proof' (noun) instead of prove (verb)?
Suggestion: proof
...tions. Even if the assumption so far prove to be valid, the authors concluding rem...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 147, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...roven to false may weaken the argument. If the author is able to prove the credibi...
^^
Line 9, column 262, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e argument can be further strengthened.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, so, then, therefore, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2071.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 390.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31025641026 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17756455517 2.78398813304 114% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.45641025641 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 653.4 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3861987415 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.4375 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.375 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.875 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0754025663507 0.218282227539 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0303931516256 0.0743258471296 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043418915652 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0465557710288 0.128457276422 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0349938451225 0.0628817314937 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.