"Jazz music is extremely popular in the city of Monroe: over 100,000 people attended Monroe's annual jazz festival last summer, and the highest-rated radio program in Monroe is 'Jazz Nightly,' which airs every weeknight. Also, a number of well-known jazz musicians own homes in Monroe. Nevertheless, the nearest jazz club is over an hour away. Given the popularity of jazz in Monroe and a recent nationwide study indicating that the typical jazz fan spends close to $1,000 per year on jazz entertainment, a jazz music club in Monroe would be tremendously profitable."
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.
In the argument, the writer endorses the recommendation of establishing a jazz club in the city of Monroe and also states that it would be tremendously profitable, by presenting several points to support this claim. To bolster the claim, the writer asserts that over 100,000 people attended Monroe's annual jazz music festival and this city also has "jazz Nightly" as its highest-rated radio programs. The writer also states that the city hosts many popular jazz musicians. If we closely inspect these arguments, it is revealed that they lend little credible support to the recommendation as they are based on unwarranted assumptions. In the following paragraphs we dig deeper into scrutinizing the claims made by the writer.
To start with, the writer states that the attendence of the Monroe's annual jazz festival last summer was over 100,000. In my opinion, this argument based on unwarranted assumption that the all the people attending the festival were from Monroe. The writer fails to realize that it is a possibility that the people present at the jazz festival may have come from other cities and states. However, all the people might not be outsiders. So, had the writer made this claim after analysing more vigorously about the crowd at the festival and then made the claim, it would have been more convincing.
Secondly, the writer claims that the city of Monroe hosts some of the well-known jazz artists. The assertion contains multiple flaws. It is based on an unwarranted assumption that artists may have originated from the city. It is possible that the artists must have resided in the city due some other reasons like merely due to availability of property or cheaper rated of homes in the city. The artist may be originally from other parts of the country. And it also seems to unfair to assume that merely due to presence of these artists in the city the jazz more people will be interested in the jazz music.
Moving on, the writer mentions that a nationwide survey claims that typical jazz artist spends $1000 on jazz entertainment. It seems to unfair to assume that this nationwide study can be used to conclude that the people in the city of Monroe will also spend such amount on the jazz entertainment.
To sum up, I would like to state that the arguments presented by the writer to support his recommendation are weak and based on unwarranted assumptions. Had the writer contributed more time in presenting details to the arguments, that would have made the arguments more convincing.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 423 350
No. of Characters: 2049 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.535 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.844 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.646 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.15 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.326 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.366 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.561 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 448, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ms. The writer also states that the city hosts many popular jazz musicians. If we...
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Line 5, column 59, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...er claims that the city of Monroe hosts some of the well-known jazz artists. The assertion ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, in my opinion, to start with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2107.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 423.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98108747045 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75845500058 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.437352245863 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 649.8 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.5235467952 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.35 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.15 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.1 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27915219748 0.218282227539 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0985559010287 0.0743258471296 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112254329246 0.0701772020484 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164172874546 0.128457276422 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0922274790506 0.0628817314937 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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