The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a food distribution company with food storage warehouses in several cities.
"Recently, we signed a contract with the Fly-Away Pest Control Company to provide pest control services at our warehouse in Palm City, but last month we discovered that over $20,000 worth of food there had been destroyed by pest damage. Meanwhile, the Buzzoff Pest Control Company, which we have used for many years in Palm City, continued to service our warehouse in Wintervale, and last month only $10,000 worth of the food stored there had been destroyed by pest damage. Even though the price charged by Fly-Away is considerably lower, our best means of saving money is to return to Buzzoff for all our pest control services."
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.
In the Memo the vice president of food distribution company has suggest to return to their former company Buzzoff for control service. He comes to this conclusion based on several data including amount of money lost on the food control. The author contention might prove true. However, the author needs to provide three pieces of additional evidence to bolster the assertions credibility.
First of all, the author assumes that last month was not an anomaly, but this might not be true. It is possible that last month loss of 20000 dollar was an exception from their service. There may be a flood in last month which inundated the food storage and which destroyed the product not the pest. It is also possible due to the strike of people, the roads were blocked and it did not allowed sufficient amount of food to leave the storage and rotten this food. If either of the scenarios are true, then the author's assertion is significantly hampered.
Secondly, the author presumes that the two city are roughly similar but this might not be true. It is possible that Palm city is in underdeveloped region where load shedding is frequent. Due to this frequent load shedding, the pest control was not effective. It is also possible that there are two different types of pest is introduced in two city and one company is not expert in controlling the pest in another region. If this is true, then the author suggestion doesn't hold water.
Finally, the author assumes that the company Buzzof is able to control the damage but this might not be true. It is possible that the pest which destroyed the food is a new type of pests , in which buzzof has doesn't have any expertise. Then they are less likely to control the pest. It is also possible that company buzzof lack manpower (worker) in dealling with this problem. If they lack the workers who deals with this problem, then it less likely that they would make the deal. If they did not make the deal, then it is not possible to shift to them for solutions. If the above mentioned scenarios have credibility then the author's contention is weakened.
Finally the author may be correct in giving recommendation about returning to their previous company. However, the author contention is depended on three unwarranted assumption which significantly weakens it's credibility. If the author is able to provide answer to this question it will increase the persuasiveness of his recommendations.
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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: 24 15
No. of Words: 418 350
No. of Characters: 1974 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.522 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.722 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.561 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.417 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.671 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.708 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.316 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.499 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 65, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'suggested'.
Suggestion: suggested
...sident of food distribution company has suggest to return to their former company Buzzo...
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Line 1, column 366, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'assertions'' or 'assertion's'?
Suggestion: assertions'; assertion's
...s of additional evidence to bolster the assertions credibility. First of all, the autho...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 143, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'dollar' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'dollars'.
Suggestion: dollars
... possible that last month loss of 20000 dollar was an exception from their service. Th...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 388, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'allow'
Suggestion: allow
..., the roads were blocked and it did not allowed sufficient amount of food to leave the ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 511, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...her of the scenarios are true, then the authors assertion is significantly hampered. ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 466, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...his is true, then the author suggestion doesnt hold water. Finally, the author assu...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 187, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...estroyed the food is a new type of pests , in which buzzof has doesnt have any exp...
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Line 7, column 210, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...new type of pests , in which buzzof has doesnt have any expertise. Then they are less ...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 568, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ossible to shift to them for solutions. If the above mentioned scenarios have cred...
^^
Line 7, column 568, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ossible to shift to them for solutions. If the above mentioned scenarios have cred...
^^
Line 7, column 627, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ned scenarios have credibility then the authors contention is weakened. Finally the ...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
... the authors contention is weakened. Finally the author may be correct in giving rec...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 167, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'assumption' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'assumptions'.
Suggestion: assumptions
...ention is depended on three unwarranted assumption which significantly weakens its credibi...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 223, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... significantly weakens its credibility. If the author is able to provide answer to...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2026.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 416.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87019230769 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63293190088 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.444711538462 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 617.4 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.9834423517 57.8364921388 50% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 84.4166666667 119.503703932 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3333333333 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.54166666667 5.70786347227 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213333919944 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0636363766799 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072903025496 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124405510373 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0725200729889 0.0628817314937 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 14.3799401198 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.67 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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