The following was used as part of an internet advertising company's appeal to businesses: "Furniture Depot employed our internet advertising company to help. Since then its sales increased by 10% over last year's totals. Furniture Depot's success demonstrates how using our internet services can increase your profitability."
Describe how well reasoned you find this argument. In the discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the argument's conclusion. You may also address possible changes in the argument that would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
The argument claims that the increase in Furniture Depo's success was due to them using the advertising company's services. That conclusion is based on the premise that the sales had increased by 10% post hiring the advertising comapany.The conclusion relies on the assumption that the increase in sales, was solely due to partnering with the company.Hence, it is unsatisfactory.
The argument readily assumes there were no advancements in terms of the products manufactured by Furniture Depo.It fails to mention the other factors that could've influenced the sales. Factors such as quality of products being manufactured,newer and more modern design releases,opening of new stores in other locations etc. It would've been clearer if the status of these factors, during the time of increase in sales, were mentioned. That could strengthen the argument and remove ambiguity regarding their claim. The argument also stands hinged only on the sales revenue of a single company, thus making it a weak claim.
Hence, is obvious that the conclusion has been derived from data that was missing key aspects, based on which it could've been evaluated.Without that information,the argument remains unsubstantiated, inadequate and open to debate.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, regarding, so, then, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 12.9520958084 8% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 55.5748502994 47% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1047.0 2260.96107784 46% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 190.0 441.139720559 43% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.51052631579 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71268753763 4.56307096286 81% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.2761583137 2.78398813304 118% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 204.123752495 57% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.610526315789 0.468620217663 130% => OK
syllable_count: 324.0 705.55239521 46% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 19.7664670659 40% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.2303501171 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.875 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.75 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.375 5.70786347227 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.127452047508 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0566043629149 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0741374983243 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0873706860522 0.128457276422 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0845610502452 0.0628817314937 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.3799401198 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.5979740519 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.93 8.32208582834 119% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 98.500998004 63% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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