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.
In a recent memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company, it is claimed that new power plants are unnecessary. They concluded based on the evidence that the extant generating plants had met the demands of the people for twenty years. However, the supporting facts provided are inadequate and are unbelievable. So, further evidences are required to check the viability of the claim.
To commence, the argument is based on the assumption that the demands remains constant. In other words, the needs in present is same as before. What if the situation changes? For instance, the population increase might significantly surge the amount of energy requirements. Also, the use of more luxurious equipment and high yielding factories’ machines might require more electricity than before. If any of the situation have merit then the argument is highly weakened.
Similarly, the argument says nothing about the interest of the people; either they will use the appliances to save energy or not. And also, what about the economic conditions of the people? For instance, it might be possible that the cost associated with the new efficient appliances is too high that people find difficult to purchase. There might be the case that the previously bought appliances are still intact and people don’t want to change for new one. If any of these hold true, then the argument as a whole doesn’t hold water.
Furthermore, the argument states that the passive solar heating will aid to reduce the consumption of the electricity. Nevertheless, the argument provides no buttress to the claim and also didn’t mentioned about the cost associated with it. What if the users didn’t find the cost to be pragmatic? It might be probable that people won’t use solar if the cost of it is way too high than the cost of electricity. If any of the above reasons is true, then the argument falls apart.
To recapitulate, the argument as a whole has made many unwarranted assumptions and the evidence provided are insufficient to study the practicality of the claim. Therefore, aforementioned evidences are required in the form of systematic study to determine the workability of the conclusion.
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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: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 364 350
No. of Characters: 1781 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.368 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.893 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.794 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.545 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.467 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.818 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.298 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.506 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 399, 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.
...t require more electricity than before. If any of the situation have merit then th...
^^
Line 7, column 197, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[4]
Message: The verb 'didn't' requires base form of this verb: 'mention'
Suggestion: mention
...o buttress to the claim and also didn’t mentioned about the cost associated with it. What...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, similarly, so, still, then, therefore, for instance, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1853.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 359.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16155988858 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91262891115 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493036211699 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 585.0 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.2254315574 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 84.2272727273 119.503703932 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3181818182 23.324526521 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.36363636364 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0819343919534 0.218282227539 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0233894271316 0.0743258471296 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0566488870902 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0479520005118 0.128457276422 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0457230989236 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.35 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => 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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