"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 writer from the electrical department states that the demand for electricity might not be increased and it would not be really necessary based on the survey by the people in an area and upon the upcoming technologies which reduces electricity consumption, also solar heating technology. But considering just this view it would not be advisable to agree with the arguer’s decision. This needs to be viewed in a broader perspective and then should be thinking about considering or not considering the proposal.
Firstly, there is no evidence relating to the sample size and total population in that area. The chances of accepting the proposed plan depends on it if only 2% of sampling were taken for a survey, it does not make sense to proceed with the proposal. But if the sampling size covers a large portion of the area living in that place, then the chance of considering the proposal is likely higher.
The arguer mentioned only about the homeowners, what if the area also have commercial complexes and what if in near future the business scope gets increased in that area, definitely energy consumption might be increased. For example, a dining restaurant might need energy for preparing dishes using micro-owen, for light, billing, Fans or Air conditioners, and many more. This aspect is not being taken into evidence while proposing the idea.
Also, the argument states that the manufacturers have been producing goods that consume only 50% of the energy when compared to the appliances from a decade ago. Based on this should that be concluded that there would be no increase in power in consumption? If this true, then technically power consumption should have been already declined. But the argument never stated about the decline of power consumption as a piece of evidence.
There should have been a decline in power consumption as per the arguer’s statement in the argument, such as solar heating, and energy-efficient appliances, because these two will definitely show an impact as the power consumption per household would have been reduced. But that point is not mentioned in the argument, so maybe the power consumption is constant for over a decade even after so many energy-saving appliances. This means there is no real evidence or surety which concludes that there might be a decline in the consumption of energy. Adding these details as an extra fact might help to decide about the proposal. But with the absence of this evidence, it would be too vague to conclude with the proposal.
Without adding the above-mentioned and primary evidence, it would not likely be beneficial to the electric power company to conclude with the idea proposed in the argument. These crucial data or details would add more details and the ongoing trend of power consumption. Market analysis on new business setups, coming with new appliances would definitely not decrease the consumption in fact it increases. More clear pieces of evidence need to be added to the argument to come to a conclusion on the above argument.
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- Educators should teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas trends and concepts that help explain those facts 66
- Educators should teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas trends and concepts that help explain those facts 66
- 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 53
- Educators should teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas trends and concepts that help explain those facts 66
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 502 350
No. of Characters: 2474 1500
No. of Different Words: 220 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.733 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.928 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.734 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.818 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.897 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.555 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, really, so, then, while, for example, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 30.0 16.3942115768 183% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2544.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 502.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06772908367 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7334296765 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83043826496 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456175298805 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 807.3 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.1226972351 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.636363636 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8181818182 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.09090909091 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0709354870917 0.218282227539 32% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.02115497031 0.0743258471296 28% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0291512844144 0.0701772020484 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0407219178916 0.128457276422 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0252452199711 0.0628817314937 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
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: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 98.500998004 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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