According to a recent report from our marketing department, during the past year, fewer people attended Super Screen-produced movies than in any other year. And yet the percentage of positive reviews by movie reviewers about specific Super Screen movies actually increased during the past year. Clearly, the contents of these reviews are not reaching enough of our prospective viewers. Thus, the problem lies not with the quality of our movies but with the public's lack of awareness that movies of good quality are available. Super Screen should therefore allocate a greater share of its budget next year to reaching the public through advertising.
The argument states that to attract more customers, the Super Screen production company should allocate a larger share of its budget for advertising, is an erroneous one. Because to arrive at that conclusion, the following questions have to be answered: What that ambiguous word "fewer" mean precisely?, What the word "greater" mean?, How accurate is that report from the marketing department?.
Firstly, the word "fewer" looks vague, this argument hadn't mention the percentage of decrease in number of people attending the theater. what if the number was decreased by only one last year. Although if the decrease in number of attendants was considerable, this decrease might be due to other reasons like weather or an outbreak of disease. Hence, by looking only at last years numbers, the company should not decide to allocate a greater share of its budget for advertising because this may result in severe losses.
Secondly, like the word "fewer", another word "Greater" also looks ambiguous. And the argument hadn't mentioned how much percentage it wants to allocate for advertising. Even if the decrease in number of attendants stemmed from the public's lack of awareness that good quality movies are available, if the company allocated the capital more than needed then, this action also may results in losses and its bankruptcy unfortunately.
Thirdly, the report from the marketing department might be not accurate because of some mistakes, which do happen sometimes. The company should check the report first, then only it should take those decisions. Without checking the report's correctness, it is futile to take those decisions as this takes the toll on the company.
As there is no information about the decrease in the number of attendants, about the percentage of share it wants to allocate for advertising, about the correctness of the report from marketing department is present in the argument, this argument's conclusion is a foolhardy one. This argument could be strengthened if the above questions had answers in the argument,
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 329 350
No. of Characters: 1667 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.259 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.067 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.674 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 129 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.308 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.6 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.384 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.648 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 64, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hadn't
...;fewer' looks vague, this argument hadnt mention the percentage of decrease in n...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 148, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: What
...number of people attending the theater. what if the number was decreased by only one...
^^^^
Line 3, column 386, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...disease. Hence, by looking only at last years numbers, the company should not decide...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 400, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
..., by looking only at last years numbers, the company should not decide to allocat...
^^
Line 5, column 116, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hadn't
... also looks ambiguous. And the argument hadnt mentioned how much percentage it wants ...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 232, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'reports'' or 'report's'?
Suggestion: reports'; report's
...e those decisions. Without checking the reports correctness, it is futile to take those...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 239, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
...rtment is present in the argument, this arguments conclusion is a foolhardy one. This arg...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1779.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 327.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44036697248 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20067654568 2.78398813304 115% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507645259939 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 549.9 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.4596251132 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.071428571 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3571428571 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.121755944877 0.218282227539 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0431904421454 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0301353433818 0.0701772020484 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.067539210842 0.128457276422 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00763422488126 0.0628817314937 12% => 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: 15.9 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.5979740519 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.