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.
It is recommended by the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment building to modify the showerheads throughout the twenty floors of the building in order to restrict water flow and increase profits. This recommendation is specious as the owner has made many assumptions that are not cogent. In order to better evaluate this recommendation, three questions must be answered.
Firstly, is the water usage actually lower after the modification of the showerheads? It is possible that the water usage has increased instead of decreasing, as the owner claims. Perhaps the tenants use the shower for a longer time in order to compensate for the lower water pressure. It is also possible that the majority of the tenants have used the bath instead of the shower since the modification and are thus using even more water. If this is the case, then the recommendation is premature and will, in reality, produce the opposite effect from that which was intended by the owner.
Secondly, are the tenants of the first five floors a representative sample of the entire building? It is possible that the first five floors are only sparsely occupied and that the majority of the tenants live above the first five floors. It might also be the case that the owner has only received a "few" complaints due to the first five floors being sparsely occupied. Perhaps the majority of the tenants on the first five floors did complain, but it only seemed like a "few" due to them comprising only a smattering of the actual tenant population in the building. If this is the case, then the recommendation put forth by the owner lacks merit.
Thirdly, will the cost of modifying the showerheads in the entire building justify the profits? It is possible that the majority of the water usage is not due to the showers but rather to dishwashing, laundry, and other miscellaneous chores. Perhaps modifying the showerheads will only result in a minor decrease in water usage and will not compensate for the cost of the modification even in ten or more years. If this is the case, then the recommendation suggested by the owner is based on nothing but spurious conjecture.
In conclusion, the argument upon which the recommendation stands now is significantly flawed due to its reliance on several unanswered questions. If the owner is able to answer the three questions above and offer more evidence (perhaps in the form of water usage data prior to and after the change), then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation to modify the showerheads throughout the twenty floors of the building.
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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: 50 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 440 350
No. of Characters: 2118 1500
No. of Different Words: 169 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.58 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.814 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.792 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.158 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.799 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.374 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.114 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 298, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...e case that the owner has only received a 'few' complaints due to the f...
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Line 3, column 480, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...s did complain, but it only seemed like a 'few' due to them comprising ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2184.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 440.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96363636364 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57997565096 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94753013289 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.402272727273 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 695.7 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3867290124 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.947368421 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1578947368 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47368421053 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210192231979 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0712986904923 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0804524813286 0.0701772020484 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123092010613 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612611777021 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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