Last year PrepUp had record enrollment in their test prep courses, but yearly profits fell by nearly 30 percent. To the contrary, TopPreparation had comparable enrollment to the year be fore, with profits rising by approximately 20 percent. This discrepancy most likely results from the fact that PrepUp teaches only live, in-person classes, which require expensive rental spaces and teaching equipment. Although TopPreparation’s total enrollment remained unchanged, its online enrollment increased by 50 percent, and online classes have a much lower overhead. In order to address these issues of profitability in the coming year, PrepUp will begin offering online test prep course
In this argument, the author claims that PrepUP will propose online test prep course in the following year with the hope of profit. To bolster his standing, the author cites some pieces of evidence. Although the argument seems logical at a first glance, it has been flawed with some unwarranted assumptions that need to be justified.
Firstly, the argument based on the reference that the yearly profit of PrepUp(PU) has been curtailed by nearly 30 percent last year while the profit of TopPreparation (TP) has been augmented by approximately 20 percent in the previous year. However, the author did not mention any number of enrolled persons; Thus, how could the arguer compare between those percents with the ignorance of the number of individuals who enrolled PU, as well as TP, is same or not. It seems that there remains an urge of knowing the answers; In the absence of these, the argument still remains skeptical.
Secondly, the author explains about the teaching method of both PU and TP; It tells that PU costs much higher than TP due to the following reasons: Offline live classes, costly house rent, teaching pieces of equipment such as white-board, laptops, projector, giant screen and so on. On the other hand, the overhead cost of TP seems lower because it executes online classes. But, the argument flawed with the proof that the salary of the teachers, who gave online lectures may be greater than the teachers of PU.
Thirdly, it tells that the online enrollment of TP has been increased by 50 percent whether the total enrollment was constant; However, this information hardly adequate for considering the argument as a fact until it discloses its initial value. For example, it can happen that initially, the total enrollment was 500; The persons, who took live classes, numbers 400 on the contrary, online attendants are 100. So, the rise of 50 percent online enrollment could not assure that the majority are running towards TP.
To recapitulate, the number of unsupported assumptions, in the previous sections, questions about the validity of the argument. Unless these are properly addressed with citing some veritable proof, the argument will still be fallacious.
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Comments
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: 14 15
No. of Words: 361 350
No. of Characters: 1769 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.359 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.9 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.549 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 66 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.786 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.53 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.786 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.351 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.625 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.065 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 238, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the argument will still be fallacious.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, third, thirdly, thus, well, while, for example, such as, as well as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1845.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 361.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1108033241 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64389594577 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570637119114 0.468620217663 122% => OK
syllable_count: 545.4 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.1494825225 57.8364921388 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.785714286 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7857142857 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.2142857143 5.70786347227 214% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 9.0 5.15768463074 174% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.228782361161 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0739457782431 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0975573311253 0.0701772020484 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102482227882 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0905634476358 0.0628817314937 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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