The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment complex to its manager.
"One month ago, all the showerheads in the first three buildings of the Sunnyside Towers complex were modified to restrict maximum water flow to one-third of what it used to be. Although actual readings of water usage before and after the adjustment are not yet available, the change will obviously result in a considerable savings for Sunnyside Corporation, since the corporation must pay for water each month. Except for a few complaints about low water pressure, no problems with showers have been reported since the adjustment. Clearly, modifying showerheads to restrict water flow throughout all twelve buildings in the Sunnyside Towers complex will increase our profits further."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The owner presumes that limiting the maximal water flow to a third of the current level would increase the firm's profit. However, he needs to examine the potential profits and the costs of introducing the scheme, before reaching the conclusion.
First of all, he needs to examine if introducing the maximal cap in water flow will actually reduce water usage. By definition, water usage is the product of water flow and time, and what he targets is not what he intends to limit. Since actual readings of water usage is not yet available, he doesn’t have empirical evidence either. It is possible that with limited maximal flow, the building residents would just use water longer, keeping the overall usage the same.
Also, in the letter there is insufficient evidence that the reduction in water usage will lead to significant savings in the bill, because there is no breakdown of the water bill. It is possible that water bill remains almost constant regardless of the usage, or changes very little. In this case, he may succeed in saving water, he would not save money.
In the letter he fails to consider the costs of introducing the scheme. One immediate cost is changing all the showerheads in the remaining 9 buildings. This requires purchasing new equipments and employing, most likely, external service from an interior designing firm. The projected profit must definitely outweigh this cost if the limit were to be placed.
Additionally, he should consider the implicit cost: mainly the resident complaint. If a large number of residents experience notable inconvenience, they may choose to leave the building, decreasing the firm's profit. He mentioned that he had so far received only few complaints regarding low water pressure, but this does not reflect the prospect of resident view when the scheme is fully employed. One, obviously only the first three buildings were tested and second, it's been only a month.
Therefore, I believe the conclusion was hastily drawn before pros and cons were fully examined.
- In any field of endeavor it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field 50
- The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment complex to its manager."One month ago, all the showerheads in the first three buildings of the Sunnyside Towers complex were modified to restrict maximum water flow t 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...scheme, before reaching the conclusion. First of all, he needs to examine if int...
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Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...cost: mainly the resident complaint. If a large number of residents experience notable inconvenie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, therefore, third, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 58.6224719101 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1697.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 333.0 442.535393258 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0960960961 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6579511553 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.588588588589 0.4932671777 119% => OK
syllable_count: 529.2 704.065955056 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.8842922239 60.3974514979 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.2777777778 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.130922262224 0.243740707755 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448267582518 0.0831039109588 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0406090974978 0.0758088955206 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0633629710351 0.150359130593 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.024744318013 0.0667264976115 37% => 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: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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