4. "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."
In a recent survey, it is stated that home owners have grown increasingly eager to conserve energy. The manufacturers at the same time are marketing home appliances such as energy efficient refigerators and air conditioners surpassing the efficeincy rate of then home appliances 10 years ago. In case of home heating, new technologies for better home insulation and solar heating have been rampant thereby reducing the energy needed for home heating. Due to such viccitudes over time in energy conservation, it has been stated that the demand for electricity in the area will not increase rather might decrease slightly. In order to further analyze the argument, the two questions below have to answered.
Firstly, are the appliances manufactured today twice as efficient as the ones that were present before? The author's argument claims that the appliances manufactured are twice as efficent than the ones which were manufactured before. Such claim has to be supported by proper evidence which includes sheer statistics and data showcasing a decrement in the energy conservation of the appliances over the past decade. Since the above survey fails to provide any such stats, the conclusion drawn in the original argument is weakened.
Secondly, with the new technologies such as home insulation and solar heating on the rise, will the demand for electricity in the entire area decline? Cutting edge technologies like passive solar heating and home insulation will obviously result in a decrease in the amount of electricity thereby improving energy conservation. But the most important thing which has to be stressed on is that will there be a decline in the electrivity on a whole in the complete area? As electricity is not subjected only to house hold activites and is rather used for a plethora of actitivites like operating companies, running industries, automobiles and so on, the above argument stating that there might be a decline in total amount of electricity is completely vague and since it is not supported by any extra evidence for the usage of electricity on a whole, the above argument does not hold firm.
There has been no proper evidence to the claim that the electricity generated from the electric generating plants has met our needs. So rather than coming to conlusions assuming that there might not be any requirement for the construction of new electical plants, proper work and survey has to be done punctiliously in order to know the electricity needs of various departments in the area, not exclusively considering the housing department only. Due to such vague observations with an inclination only towards the housing department in the area, the argument above does not hold water.
In conclusion, since there has been a dearth of proper evidence supporting the above lines, the argument does not hold firm and is considered vague and flawed.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 467 350
No. of Characters: 2370 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.649 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.075 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.885 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 71 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.471 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.377 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.412 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.586 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 109, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, then, as to, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2433.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 467.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20985010707 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9274227694 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45182012848 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 797.4 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 79.9906136362 57.8364921388 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.117647059 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4705882353 23.324526521 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.58823529412 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
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: 0.205229482418 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0797427415495 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0987236009337 0.0701772020484 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109794725288 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.1302618172 0.0628817314937 207% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.3799401198 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.3550499002 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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
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