The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment building to its manager.
"One month ago, all the showerheads on the first five floors of Sunnyside Towers were modified to restrict the water flow to approximately one-third of its original flow. 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, restricting water flow throughout all the twenty floors of Sunnyside Towers will increase our profits further."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In given the author's letter, the author recommends that restricting water flow throughout all the floors of the apartment will increase the company's profits. although the author's assertion seems plausible considering that there was no problem reported with water flow adjustment on the first five floors, and the corporation is monthly pay for water now, numerous assumptions have to be delved into in order to assess the recommendation adequately.
The author's recommendation critically leans on poor analogy between water adjustment on the first five floors and the remaining fifteen floors. although water flow modification was successful on the first five floors, it does not guarantee that the same measure lead to the same degree of success on the other floors. intensity of water flow might differ in change of floors. if the higher floors have less strong intensity of water flow, such decrease in water flow might cause a lot of complaints, and the adjustment could fail. further evidence pertaining to whether the first five floors and the other floors are completely comparable is necessary for an adequate assessment.
The author's assertion assumes that few number of complaints is not a serious problem. However, despite small number of complaint, it might cause decrease in the profit of the corporation. if residences who raise the complaints move to another apartment due to weak water flow, it might bring out decrease in the profit. Moreover, people might be reluctant to apartment with weak water flow, and it is critically harmful to the company's profit. further evidence about the intensity and contents of the complaints might be vital to an accurate evaluation.
In sum, the author's argument may or may not lead to increase in profit. evidence for or against the critical assumptions, such as the difference between the first five floors and the other floors and intensity of the complaints, is needed to enable an adequate assessment.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 7 15
No. of Words: 315 350
No. of Characters: 1620 1500
No. of Different Words: 138 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.213 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.143 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.754 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 45 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 22.058 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.514 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.774 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.188 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 159, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Although
...ent will increase the companys profits. although the authors assertion seems plausible c...
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Line 1, column 172, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ease the companys profits. although the authors assertion seems plausible considering t...
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Line 4, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...the recommendation adequately. The authors recommendation critically leans on poor...
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Line 4, column 145, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Although
...loors and the remaining fifteen floors. although water flow modification was successful ...
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Line 4, column 319, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Intensity
... degree of success on the other floors. intensity of water flow might differ in change of...
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Line 4, column 377, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
... flow might differ in change of floors. if the higher floors have less strong inte...
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Line 4, column 532, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Further
...plaints, and the adjustment could fail. further evidence pertaining to whether the firs...
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Line 4, column 532, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: further,
...plaints, and the adjustment could fail. further evidence pertaining to whether the firs...
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Line 7, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ry for an adequate assessment. The authors assertion assumes that few number of co...
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Line 7, column 36, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'few numbers'.
Suggestion: few numbers
... The authors assertion assumes that few number of complaints is not a serious problem....
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Line 7, column 189, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...rease in the profit of the corporation. if residences who raise the complaints mov...
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Line 7, column 445, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Further
...tically harmful to the companys profit. further evidence about the intensity and conten...
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Line 7, column 445, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: further,
...tically harmful to the companys profit. further evidence about the intensity and conten...
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Line 10, column 13, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...n accurate evaluation. In sum, the authors argument may or may not lead to increas...
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Line 10, column 73, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Evidence
... or may not lead to increase in profit. evidence for or against the critical assumptions...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, moreover, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 28.8173652695 28% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1659.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 315.0 441.139720559 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26666666667 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80711761368 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.457142857143 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.8524764776 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.5 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 15.0 5.25449101796 285% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.169290213628 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0655522805846 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.047347649135 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108723219947 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500348438685 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
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: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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