The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company.
"Several recent surveys indicate that home owners are increasingly eager to conserve energy. At the same time, manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, that are almost twice as energy efficient as those sold a decade ago. Also, new technologies for better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available to reduce the energy needed for home heating. Therefore, the total demand for electricity in our area will not increase — and may decline slightly. Since our three electric generating plants in operation for the past twenty years have always met our needs, construction of new generating plants will not be necessary."
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 proposes that the construction of the new generating plants would not be required in the years to come. His proposition is based on the assumption that three generating plants be adequate for energy generation in the years to come.
The author assumes the surveys are reliable. The survey states that the people are eager to conserve energy. But that does not mean they will necessarily conserve energy. Many a times a person's conscience is responsible in responding to such questions. So he might have answered the survey in the spur of the moment. But it can't be verified that the energy conservation will actually be brought into action.
Though the manufacturers are marketing energy efficient appliances, we don't know whether they are affordable to the people. Since many of these energy efficient devices can be expensive. Hence, we cannot infer that people will buy them. As the devices are so energy efficient, people can also buy more of these devices. If there are more devices in use,the consumption of energy will not necessarily go down. On the contrary, energy consumption can even increase. So it cannot be right to assume that the demand for electricity will not increase.
The author states that the three generating plants have always met the needs and hence construction of new generating plants is not necessary. But there can be a surge in population in the area and the energy requirements can increase. There can be immigration in the area leading to increase in population. This in turn can result in the need of new generating plants.
Thus, the proposition made by the author can be considered only for the present situation. But in the long run, it does not remain valid.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 291 350
No. of Characters: 1392 1500
No. of Different Words: 135 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.13 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.784 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.703 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 61 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 13.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.279 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.54 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.128 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 177, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a time' or simply 'times'?
Suggestion: a time; times
... will necessarily conserve energy. Many a times a persons conscience is responsible in ...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 187, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...ssarily conserve energy. Many a times a persons conscience is responsible in responding...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 325, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...urvey in the spur of the moment. But it cant be verified that the energy conservatio...
^^^^
Line 2, column 325, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
...urvey in the spur of the moment. But it cant be verified that the energy conservatio...
^^^^
Line 3, column 73, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...rketing energy efficient appliances, we dont know whether they are affordable to the...
^^^^
Line 3, column 125, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ther they are affordable to the people. Since many of these energy efficient devices ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 139, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this energy' or 'these energies'?
Suggestion: this energy; these energies
...affordable to the people. Since many of these energy efficient devices can be expensive. Hen...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 353, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...evices. If there are more devices in use,the consumption of energy will not necessar...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, if, so, thus, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 55.5748502994 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1425.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 289.0 441.139720559 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93079584775 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77612609854 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 204.123752495 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.474048442907 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 458.1 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 22.8473053892 57% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.963652363 57.8364921388 47% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 67.8571428571 119.503703932 57% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 13.7619047619 23.324526521 59% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 2.71428571429 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.097801603805 0.218282227539 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0349946023864 0.0743258471296 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0322695202936 0.0701772020484 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0503140693076 0.128457276422 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0498196210023 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.7 14.3799401198 61% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.197005988 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.72 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 12.3882235529 48% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 11.1389221557 65% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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