The following appeared in a newsletter offering advice to investors."Over 80 percent of the respondents to a recent survey indicated a desire to reduce their intake of foods containing fats and cholesterol, and today low-fat produc

In the preceding argument the author states that Old dairy stockholders have to sell their shares and investors do not to purchase stock from this company because the company products contain high fat and cholesterol, consequently, sales are likely to diminish and the company profits will decrease, the conclusion of the argument is based on the following premises. Firstly, he states a survey indicates that 80 percent of people show a desire to reduce the fat and high cholesterol foods. Further, many foods stores sell low fat food. Hence, in the first glance it may seem plausible. However, careful scrutiny sheds light on plethora of assumptions that could undermine the value of the argument.

To begin with, the author states that Old diary company has to sell their shares and other investors do not have to purchase the company's stock. On one hand, the author readily states a survey to boost his position. In deed, he fails to mention multifarious factors such as is the sample size enough? Further, is it representative enough to draw a broad conclusion? is the 80% people will do their desire or it will be just a desire? Thus, all these factors play a major role to extrapolate the results hence, the author fails to mention the controlling variables to conclude a valuable recommendations.

Secondly, the fallacy of the argument also lies in using undefined words such as "many" stores what the author means of this words or what is the precise number that "many" is reflected. Perhaps is not significant enough to make any changes. Thus, he has to be precise and specific to strengthen his position.

Thirdly, even there is a relation between Old's food high in fat and the company's sales prediction that the profits will diminish this does not necessarily indicts a conspicuous relation. In other words, he fails to mention from where he concluded the results and how the strong relation is. Perhaps the sale's company are depended on feckless assumption and they have to measure the real situation by using research methods or other variables.

In conclusion, the argument fails to mention one key factor. Namely, all the previous assumption are equivocal. Consequently, without complete information the argument is unsubstantiated and opened to debate.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 367, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Is
...tive enough to draw a broad conclusion? is the 80% people will do their desire or ...
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Line 3, column 588, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'recommendation'?
Suggestion: recommendation
...olling variables to conclude a valuable recommendations. Secondly, the fallacy of the argume...
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Line 5, column 131, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...y' stores what the author means of this words or what is the precise number tha...
^^^^
Line 7, column 156, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'indict'
Suggestion: indict
...will diminish this does not necessarily indicts a conspicuous relation. In other words,...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, as to, in conclusion, such as, in other words, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1927.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 375.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13866666667 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91137722278 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.506666666667 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 590.4 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 74.9393754978 57.8364921388 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.35 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.75 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.55 5.70786347227 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.160154334376 0.218282227539 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0440539533322 0.0743258471296 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.075567302432 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0780265879858 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0811632717529 0.0628817314937 129% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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argument 1 -- not OK

argument 2 -- not OK

argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 375 350
No. of Characters: 1850 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.401 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.933 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.708 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.737 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.911 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.524 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.077 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5