Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville. The store should prove to be very successful: Nature's Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, and clearly Plainsville is such an area. Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. The local health club has more members than ever, and the weight training and aerobics classes are always full. Finally, Plainsville's schoolchildren represent a new generation of potential customers: these schoolchildren are required to participate in a fitness-for-life program, which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise at an early age.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The next franchise of Nature’s Way, the chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening in the town of Plainsville. The arguer makes sure that it should be very successful according to a series of assumptions on basis of the seemingly bias for healthy of the residents. However, the argument is flawed by those unwarranted assumptions, and is therefore unpersuasive as it stands.
First of all, the arguer deduces there are a large amount of local sports enthusiast by citing the merchants report sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. However, the sales report might be irrelevant with the conclusion. Perhaps the sport products in Plainsville are renowned all over the country and attract customers living far away. Perhaps the residents are fond of the design style of running shoes and exercise clothing as they are also comfortable and convenient in recent life. Therefore, the report lends little support to the arguer’s prediction that the new franchise will make an equally high sale there.
Moreover, the argument rests on the assumption that the popular health club and the always full classes for presumption that the new store will success as the club does. It is true that the weight training and aerobics classes are full at most time, but the odds are that the other kinds of exercise might be less attractive to the residents as well as the healthy food. In that case, there might not be a large demand for the health food or health-product which will be mainly sold in the new store. Without ruling these possibilities, the assumption could not be justified that new branch of Nature’s Way should be very successful, and consequently the arguer’s inference is unpersuasive.
Besides, the program for schoolchildren, referred by arguer to prove the potential demand of healthy products, will boost the store business in the future. The assumption fails to provide complete information concerning the program locally. Perhaps the program would be stopped in the next years. Considering those children need at least ten years, nobody can portend what will happen. Without taking into these possibilities, the assumption is untenable.
In sum, the validity of the assumption, that the new franchise may achieve success, is severely weaken by several unsubstantiated assumptions to the process of reasoning. To better evaluate the argument, the arguer should make deeper investigation to figure out the specific variety of sports or exercises are enjoyed locally or other customs rather than the potential trends or actually uncertain facts.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'amounts'?
Suggestion: amounts
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'sports'' or 'sport's'?
Suggestion: sports'; sport's
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Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'weakened'.
Suggestion: weakened
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, consequently, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, as for, at least, in fact, as well as, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2230.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 421.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29691211401 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95082629663 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529691211401 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 667.8 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.798528655 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.368421053 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1578947368 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.89473684211 5.70786347227 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.328399172016 0.218282227539 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0946060713848 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.160393319684 0.0701772020484 229% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185515543986 0.128457276422 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.168999181444 0.0628817314937 269% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => 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: 13.46 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => 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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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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