The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment complex to its manager. "One month ago, all the showerheads in the first three buildings of the Sunnyside Towers complex were modified to restrict maximum water flow to one-third of what it used to be. 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, modifying showerheads to restrict water flow throughout all twelve buildings in the Sunnyside Towers complex will increase our profits further."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In this argument, the author predicts that through restricting the water flow throughout the 12 buildings, the sunnyside corporation can make a dramatic increase of profits. To support the prediction, the author cites that a recently experiments that the water restriction in the first three building receive no complains about the shower and may able to save considerable payments for sunnyside corporation since corporation must pay for water each month.
However, before we reach the conclusion of the accuracy of this prediction, we need to raise several questions, and the answer to them will help us assess the argument.
To begin with, the author cites that the showerheads in the first three buildings were modified to restrict the maximum water flow to one-third of what it used to be, where the author draw a conclusion that this adjustment will obviously lead to the decrease of the payment that corporation must pay each month. But the actual data of water utilization before and after the modification are still not available. Moreover, the survey was finished one month ago, if other factors happened to change, for example, the tempreture rise, will undermine the efficacy of the result. As a result, we need to ask how much water is actually saved in the 3 buildings, without the raliable data that should be shown in the argument, it is impossible to draw any conclusion about the financial save for the sunnyside corporation based on the current survey.
In addition, the author assume that no complains from the first three building means that there will also be no bemoan from the other 9 buildings. however, no evidence shows that the other nine buildings are equivalent to the first three building. Unless there is another survey through the other nine buildings, and get effective consequence which shows the unity of the 12 buildings, it is hardly conceivable that once the adjustment has been done, no problems of showers would be castigate.
What's more, no complains about the showerheads does not mean no complains about other issues, and these issues may engender to a increase of payment. With this prospection, the author's another assumption fail to draw the conclusion that the restriction of water flows can save more money and make the profits mushroom for corporation.
In sum, the conclusion reached in the argument is invalid and misleading. I would suspend my judgment about the credibility of the argument until the author can provide more information about the compliants survey from all 12 buildings and the acurate data about the water saving
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Essay evaluation 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: 13 15
No. of Words: 425 350
No. of Characters: 2118 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.984 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.679 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 142 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.692 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.899 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.383 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.689 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 148, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...e no bemoan from the other 9 buildings. however, no evidence shows that the other nine ...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: What's
...lems of showers would be castigate. Whats more, no complains about the showerhead...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 128, 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
...ssues, and these issues may engender to a increase of payment. With this prospect...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, third, for example, in addition, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2176.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 425.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.762360958 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 657.0 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => 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: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.2172341993 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.428571429 119.503703932 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.3571428571 23.324526521 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 5.70786347227 158% => 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 : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.169330162046 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0633670382102 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0542461902467 0.0701772020484 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0848915868409 0.128457276422 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592191983682 0.0628817314937 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.01 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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