The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a food distribution company with food storage warehouses in several cities.
"Recently, we signed a contract with the Fly-Away Pest Control Company to provide pest control services at our warehouse in Palm City, but last month we discovered that over $20,000 worth of food there had been destroyed by pest damage. Meanwhile, the Buzzoff Pest Control Company, which we have used for many years in Palm City, continued to service our warehouse in Wintervale, and last month only $10,000 worth of the food stored there had been destroyed by pest damage. Even though the price charged by Fly-Away is considerably lower, our best means of saving money is to return to Buzzoff for all our pest control services."
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.
The author of the memo, the vice president of a food company, argued that the company should use Buzzoff company for the pest control again, rather than continuously use the current Flay-Away company. There are some assumptions in support of the argument need to be examined before the company make their decision.
First, the company should check the pest control situations of the food storages in several other cities. The vice president claimed the superiority of Buzzoff company based on the fact that Buzzoff company succeeded in pest control in one city (Wintervale) than what the flay-way company did in the other city (Palm city). However, as it said in the question, the company have storages in several other cities. Therefore, there is the need to concern the overall performances of two companies in all food storages.
Second, for the indifferent examination of two pest control companies, the more information about the environments of two different cities (i.e., Wintervale and Palm city) should be offered. The vice president hastily made generalization that the environment or conditions would be same in two different cities based on the data for only a one last month. However, several questions need to be answered to verify her/his assumptions: have the results of the pest damage been same for several months or years?; are the foods stored in the warehouses are same?; most importantly, are the environments which determines the difficulties of pest control identical for two cities? The company should check the questions because if one of the them were proved to be not, the reliability of the argument would be seriously affected.
Third, the more detailed price comparison between the costs for the company and the lost of money for the destroyed food. The vice president assumed that even though the Fly-Away company promised the considerably lower price, the lost costs resulted from the less effective pest controls would be larger than the difference in the money for using company. However, if the overall lost costs from the all storages in several other cities are not significantly larger than the expenses to use Buzzoff company, the significance of the claim for using them would be significantly undermined.
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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: 366 350
No. of Characters: 1836 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.374 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.016 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.692 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.154 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.098 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.424 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.621 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.187 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 316, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...before the company make their decision. First, the company should check the pest...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 731, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'them'?
Suggestion: the; them
...d check the questions because if one of the them were proved to be not, the reliability ...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1895.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 364.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20604395604 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74662080644 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447802197802 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 597.6 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.6765278477 57.8364921388 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.769230769 119.503703932 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.69230769231 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286367506372 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128571344908 0.0743258471296 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0877093441819 0.0701772020484 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206660218061 0.128457276422 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.075463455111 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.3799401198 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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