The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of marketing at Dura-Sock, Inc.
"A recent study of our customers suggests that our company is wasting the money it spends on its patented Endure manufacturing process, which ensures that our socks are strong enough to last for two years. We have always advertised our use of the Endure process, but the new study shows that despite our socks' durability, our average customer actually purchases new Dura-Socks every three months. Furthermore, our customers surveyed in our largest market, northeastern United States cities, say that they most value Dura-Socks' stylish appearance and availability in many colors. These findings suggest that we can increase our profits by discontinuing use of the Endure manufacturing process."
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.
Merely based on groundless assumption and suspicious evidence the arguer material draws a conclusion that the company should stop using the Endure manufacturing process to increase the profits. To substantiate the conclusion, the arguer points out evident that the recent study shows that the customers think it is wasting money to spend on the Endure manufacturing process. Additionally, he indicates that the Endure is useless because of the frequent re-buy of the customers. Plausible as it is, a further reflection reveals that it bases on some dubious assumptions.
First unless the surveyors sampled a adequate number of customers and did so randomly across the entire region, the investigation results are not reliable to gauge that the customers consider the useless of Endure generally. Specifically if the surveyors just ask less than 10 people to answer the question it is obviously that the survey is unreliable. Lacking of the sample will lead to a inaccurate result easily. For example there is just these 10 people think the Endure is useless amount 1000 people. Even though, to some extent, it is true there is another people that whether the people they investigated can represent the people who buy the Dora-Sock. If some of them do not really bought the Sock and they think the manufacturing is unnecessary because they do not actually know the production.
Second the arguer's recommendation relies on that the average purchase of new Socks which is unwarranted to result in the poor endurance of the product. It is possible that the customer by the Socks frequently because their favor of the product rather than wear out the socks. Additionally less people will rebuy the product which is in inferior quality. Even if it is because of wearing out the average number cannot represents the frequent buying of the Sock's. One possible reason is that the customers bought a lot in one time and used for a long period of time. However the arguer simply concludes the customers wear out three Socks per mouth.
Third the author fails to recognize the correlation between the customs' favorite of the appearance and the use of Endure. For instance, the appearance can attracts customers to buy the Sock because it can be seen as them buy it but the endurance of the Sock can not show up until a long time after wearing it. Therefore the customers will have more interests on the appearance rather than the quality. Moreover if we take away the Endure manufacturing process there might be more complaint about the poor endurance of the production. Hence the sales may have a remarkable decrease let alone increasing the profits.
To put it in a nutshell, this arguer fails to confirm its claim because the evidence cited in the analysis does not lend effective support to what the arguer maintains. To make the argument more persuasive, the arguer would have to offer more information with regard to the validity of the survey and the real fact that can affect the profits of the product. Therefore, if the argument had included the given factors mentioned above, it would been more thorough and logically acceptable.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 137, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
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...sion that the company should stop using the Endure manufacturing process to increase the p...
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Line 1, column 323, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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Suggestion:
...s that the customers think it is wasting money to spend on the Endure manufacturi...
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Line 1, column 343, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
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... think it is wasting money to spend on the Endure manufacturing process. Additionally, he...
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Line 1, column 409, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
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...rocess. Additionally, he indicates that the Endure is useless because of the frequent re-b...
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Line 1, column 550, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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Suggestion:
...reflection reveals that it bases on some dubious assumptions. First unless the...
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Line 3, column 36, 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
.... First unless the surveyors sampled a adequate number of customers and did so...
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Line 3, column 390, 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
...ble. Lacking of the sample will lead to a inaccurate result easily. For example t...
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Line 3, column 466, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
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...ple there is just these 10 people think the Endure is useless amount 1000 people. Even tho...
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Line 5, column 12, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguers'' or 'arguer's'?
Suggestion: arguers'; arguer's
...lly know the production. Second the arguers recommendation relies on that the avera...
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Line 5, column 277, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Additionally,
...product rather than wear out the socks. Additionally less people will rebuy the product whic...
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Line 5, column 290, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...r than wear out the socks. Additionally less people will rebuy the product which is ...
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Line 5, column 550, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...t a lot in one time and used for a long period of time. However the arguer simply concludes th...
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Suggestion: However,
...ime and used for a long period of time. However the arguer simply concludes the custome...
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Line 7, column 156, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[2]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'attract'
Suggestion: attract
...ndure. For instance, the appearance can attracts customers to buy the Sock because it ca...
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Line 7, column 311, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... up until a long time after wearing it. Therefore the customers will have more interests ...
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Line 7, column 403, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...the appearance rather than the quality. Moreover if we take away the Endure manufacturin...
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Line 7, column 428, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
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...n the quality. Moreover if we take away the Endure manufacturing process there might be mo...
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Line 7, column 535, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...t the poor endurance of the production. Hence the sales may have a remarkable decreas...
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Line 9, column 224, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...gument more persuasive, the arguer would have to offer more information with rega...
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Line 9, column 445, Rule ID: PRP_PAST_PART[2]
Message: Did you mean 'have been' or 'be'?
Suggestion: have been; be
...given factors mentioned above, it would been more thorough and logically acceptable....
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'really', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'third', 'for example', 'for instance', 'it is true', 'with regard to']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.228980322004 0.25644967241 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.153846153846 0.15541462614 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0715563506261 0.0836205057962 86% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0590339892665 0.0520304965353 113% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0375670840787 0.0272364105082 138% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.127012522361 0.125424944231 101% => OK
Participles: 0.0232558139535 0.0416121511921 56% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.74216312998 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0286225402504 0.026700313972 107% => OK
Particles: 0.0107334525939 0.001811407834 593% => OK
Determiners: 0.155635062612 0.113004496875 138% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0250447227191 0.0255425247493 98% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00894454382826 0.0127820249294 70% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3140.0 2731.13054187 115% => OK
No of words: 523.0 446.07635468 117% => OK
Chars per words: 6.00382409178 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.57801047555 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.376673040153 0.378187486979 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.273422562141 0.287650121315 95% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.19120458891 0.208842608468 92% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.126195028681 0.135150697306 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74216312998 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 207.018472906 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483747609943 0.469332199767 103% => OK
Word variations: 57.0284721528 52.1807786196 109% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.039408867 120% => OK
Sentence length: 21.7916666667 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.8385210866 57.7814097925 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.833333333 141.986410481 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7916666667 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.708333333333 0.724660767414 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 20.0 3.58251231527 558% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 49.1339228808 51.9672348444 95% => OK
Elegance: 1.51428571429 1.8405768891 82% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.431039966766 0.441005458295 98% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.127065533983 0.135418324435 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0920417452876 0.0829849096947 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.62741450972 0.58762219726 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.142503662228 0.147661913831 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.209725020453 0.193483328276 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0773999161072 0.0970749176394 80% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.590906224192 0.42659136922 139% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0154464181188 0.0774707102158 20% => Paragraphs are so close to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.338429202908 0.312017818177 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.061984423078 0.0698173142475 89% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.87684729064 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 5.36822660099 186% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.