Because of declining profits, we must reduce operating expenses at Movies Galore's ten movie-rental stores. Raising prices is not a good option, since we are famous for our low prices. Instead, we should reduce our operating hours. Last month our store in downtown Marston reduced its hours by closing at 6:00 p.m. rather than 9:00 p.m. and reduced its overall inventory by no longer stocking any DVD released more than five years ago. Since we have received very few customer complaints about these new policies, we should now adopt them at all other Movies Galore stores as our best strategies for improving profits.
It is understandable that the rental store would want to maintain or improve the profits they are pulling to continue operations. The author puts forth a very convincing set of suggestion to do the same, but upon closer inspection we see that it is lacking specific evidence which would be required to support the claims made by the author in the passage.
Reducing operational cost may seem to be an obvious methodology to be followed to increase the profit margins, it may not necessarily lead to better results. For example, if such steps of reducing operational costs are taken without taking i...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 439 350
No. of Characters: 2207 1500
No. of Different Words: 214 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.577 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.027 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.577 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 175 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 130 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.389 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.13 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.722 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.349 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.63 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.156 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 480, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...h necessary details further weakens the authors argument. Furthermore, the author ci...
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Line 7, column 506, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...engthen his argument which is otherwise a weaken case. The suggestion to reduce the ...
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Line 11, column 291, Rule ID: WHETHER[6]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
... then an informed decision may be taken as to whether these policy changes are to be adopted....
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, regarding, similarly, so, then, thus, as to, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2263.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 439.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15489749431 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64841034301 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501138952164 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 712.8 705.55239521 101% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.5589494582 57.8364921388 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 125.722222222 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3888888889 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77777777778 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => 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: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.114342631077 0.218282227539 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0430759812705 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0415006724058 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0593657159899 0.128457276422 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037466769444 0.0628817314937 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.