We must reduce overhead here at the café. Instead of opening at 6 a.m. weekdays, we will now open at 8 a.m. On weekends, we will only be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. The decrease in hours of operations will help save money because we won’t be paying for utilities, employee wages, or other
operating costs during the hours we are closed. This is the best strategy for us to save money and remain in business without having to eliminate jobs.
The reasoning in the argument is not logically flawed; however, it relies on a number of assumptions and lacks proper evidences. Primarily, the argument is based on the unwarranted assumption that decreasing in hours of operations will necessarily help them to save money. But a series of questions and issues are to be taken into account before coming up with the conclusion that renders the argument conclusion not necessarily valid.
Based on the argument, the morning open hours are going to decrease from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. A lot of companies mandate their employees to start in the morning before 7 or 7:30 in the morning. Hence, people prefer to eat breakfast at a Café in the morning before they head to their offices, or even maybe order a take away coffee, between 6 to 8 a.m. The writer of the argument should be aware of number of drinks and breakfast they sell in the morning, and compare their income to the mentioned expenses in that two hours. The argument fails to provide any justification in this manner.
The argument also leaves many other unanswered questions. It does not explain about the number of the employees. What is the “other” operating costs? Are they corporate a considerable portion of the costs? How many people are working in the Café? Are their wages will significantly impose expenses to the owner? In case they get paid in hours, the owner can revise their contract and pay them differently. Also, their presence timing can be managed more efficiently, and they can be at the Café as a part time employee and reduce the costs in this way.
On weekends people usually tend to drink or eat at a Café. And the later it gets, the crowder streets are. Closing Café at 4 o’clock in the afternoon on weekends cannot be a good idea since it will deprive them from a big potential source of money. So, instead of cutting down to expenses, the author might think as better ways to improve the income. It can be a better strategy to save money and remain in business.
Because the argument makes several unjustified assumptions, it fails to make a convincing case that decreasing the open hours of a Café would results in cutting down the expenses. Many factors affect the subject and the argument should provide more corroboration to be considered valid.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 401 350
No. of Characters: 1839 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.475 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.586 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.578 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.095 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.913 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.286 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.277 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.499 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.095 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, 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.
...ide any justification in this manner. The argument also leaves many other unanswe...
^^^
Line 5, column 511, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...ently, and they can be at the Café as a part time employee and reduce the costs in this w...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 143, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'result'
Suggestion: result
...creasing the open hours of a Café would results in cutting down the expenses. Many fact...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1915.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 399.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79949874687 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73855831324 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513784461153 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 594.9 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 68.2855482498 57.8364921388 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.1904761905 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.80952380952 5.70786347227 32% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22397154347 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0583754679021 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0580487335496 0.0701772020484 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120556492736 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037640806928 0.0628817314937 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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