The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company.
"Several recent surveys indicate that home owners are increasingly eager to conserve energy. At the same time, manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, that are almost twice as energy efficient as those sold a decade ago. Also, new technologies for better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available to reduce the energy needed for home heating. Therefore, the total demand for electricity in our area will not increase—and may decline slightly. Since our three electric generating plants in operation for the past twenty years have always met our needs, construction of new generating plants will not be necessary."
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 author's claims in the statement that increase in the number of moped accidents are attributed to the number of the mopeds being rented by the rental company, hence suggesting a remedy that the number of accidents can be reduced by reducing the rental count. Though the statement which the author is making seems sufficing enough for the cause, it is not foolproof. there are enough loopholes in the statement which would break the myth of the author.
Firstly, the author suggests limiting the number of mopeds rented from 50 to 25 per rental company. This would very well ensure that the number of mopeds being used on the island would be reduced by half, provided that the number of rental companies remains the same. Why would a rental company which used to earn X dollars a day, want to reduce the income to 0.5X dollars a day? they would definitely find a way out to maintain their income. they might open multiple branches of the rental company in different regions of the island, say he opens 3 branches, he would now be having a limit of renting 75 mopes a day. now, who is the winner? balmer island town council or the rental company?
Secondly and most importantly, the author attributed the number of accidents to moped count. is it a wise thing to correlate accidents and vehicular count? Let's say, 100 people who are good at driving and follow the traffic rules, would lead to lesser accidents than 50 people who are not good drivers. there are more important and crucial factors to an accident then just vehicular count. Drunk and irresponsible drivers, bad roads are a few notable factors. So does a reduction in the vehicular count by half and not making any amendments to the other crucial reasons for accidents help in reduction accident count?
The author mentions that similar steps were taken by Seavilles town council and that they have achieved the result. What does similar mean here? they would surely have reduced the rental count as the author claims. but are we aware of the other amendments they would have made to traffic rules or road safety rules? The amalgamated effort of all the changes would have helped reduce the number of accidents. hence balmer council might not obtain the expected result if they mask the other amendments made and stay stubborn in implementation of just vehicular count reduction.
most importantly, it is mentioned that mopeds are the most popular means of transportation. if the vehicular count is reduced by half, how would the council handle the transportation needs of all the tourists? it might create dissatisfaction in the tourists and lead to the downfall in tourism in Blamer islands.
it seems definite that the author aims at a constructive way to reduce accidents. but the assumptions made by the author to reduce the accident count are not self-sustainable. To obtain the desired results he would have to work on numerous other factors which would help achieve the result. but in the current form, it is not convincing enough if these remedies would help achieve the result.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2539.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 523.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85468451243 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57550097152 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.443594646272 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 769.5 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 19.7664670659 147% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.6024709837 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.5517241379 119.503703932 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0344827586 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.20689655172 5.70786347227 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 19.0 5.25449101796 362% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0294969080779 0.218282227539 14% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00942944013031 0.0743258471296 13% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0169073127659 0.0701772020484 24% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0151960642379 0.128457276422 12% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0126085156077 0.0628817314937 20% => 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: 10.4 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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