“We, the four partners of Max Design, have made the company what it is. When we are hired by a client, it is our taste and style that the client is paying for. In the last two years, we have grown significantly and now have project managers handling many of our recent contracts. In my opinion, the work put forth by the teams led by the product managers is not as good as the work put forth when it was just the four of us. At other design firms of a similar size, the principals remain personally involved in all projects. Therefore, from now on, all decisions for all projects, no matter how minute, should be signed off by one of us.”
The following argument is based on numerous unwarranted assumptions regarding the decision of the partners of the Max Design company, who have arrived at a conclusion of taking even the minutest decision of a project, completely by themselves. Taken as whole, these unstated assumptions seriously undermine the validity of the argument. Indeed, if the assumptions fail to be true, then the argument completely falls apart.
Firstly, the argument fails to identify that the scenario existing in the last two years might not perpetuate in the years to come. As the economy follows a cycle, it keeps changing, oscillating between the expansion and contraction phase. The argument mentions that they have grown significantly in the past two years, and the sole reason they attribute to this growth, is to themselves. However, there might be a possibility that at that time the economy was growing, and was partly responsible for the good results achieved by the Max Design company. In the years to come, the growth might not be as expected by them, and the assumption of the company of reaping benefits when they took the entire decision themselves, might fail to get fulfilled. Had the economy be same, even them the argument fails to consider other possibilities like low competition in the market, which might have loomed two years back.
Secondly, the argument also leaves many other unanswered questions. The argument superficially considers the Max Design firm and other similar sized firms, same and presents the conclusion that was being followed at the other firms. It asserts that as the other similar sized companies are personally involved in all the projects, they should follow the same. However, the argument fails to acknowledge that the other firms to which it is comparing might be disparate in terms of other factors like turnover, recognition, i.e. at global/national platform or extent of projects undertaken in a financial year. In the absence of these relevant information, comparing and thus blindly following a similar sized company might prove disastrous to the Max Design company and could shatter its hopes of staying prosperous in the years to come.
Lastly, the argument considers without warrant that they will able to manage all the projects themselves. The argument considers the scenario when they took all the decisions on their projects themselves, to the current state. As they have grown significantly in the past two years, the number of projects in which they are currently enrolled might be much higher than the number two years back. Under such contrasting states, the argument considers that the four partners will take even the minutest decision themselves. This could lead to improper focus and hence poor performance of the company. So, the decision of the company to take decisions on all the projects themselves is totally unjustified.
Because the argument makes several undue assumptions, it fails to make a convincing case. Unless the above-stated assumptions are addressed, the argument remains weakened that the company will grow, if they took even the smallest decision themselves, for all their projects.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 506 350
No. of Characters: 2591 1500
No. of Different Words: 219 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.743 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.121 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.71 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 182 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 157 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 120 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.816 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.345 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.544 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.111 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 276, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ion themselves, for all their projects.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, lastly, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2665.0 2260.96107784 118% => OK
No of words: 505.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27722772277 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82440801917 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453465346535 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 811.8 705.55239521 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.8338094457 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.136363636 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9545454545 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45454545455 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.127187104068 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0418263141731 0.0743258471296 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419332760325 0.0701772020484 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0751902961133 0.128457276422 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0361659932574 0.0628817314937 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => 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: 13.64 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 98.500998004 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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