A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood. Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In the argument, the author claims that it is both popular and profitable to open a new seafood restaurant in Bay City. To support the argument, the author points out that the seafood consumption in Bay City has grown by 30 percent in the past five years, and that most families in Bay City prefer to eat healthy food outside homes. However, additional evidence would be required for a fully evaluated argument, Those pieces of evidence might undermine the argument or, on the contrary, reinforce it.
The first evidence we need is information about the cited sales study which only provides us the percentage of the increase in the seafood consumption without indicating the base amount of sales. For example, if the base amount is relatively low compared to seafood markets in other cities, the future consumption might not be as promising as what we can imply from the vague number 30 percent. This would certainly weaken the author's argument. On the other hand, if the sales are already much higher than the benchmark, the argument would be strengthened instead based on the vigorous increment. Without the evidence of the base amount of the sales being provided, we could not draw the conclusion that the seafood market is going to be promising in the future.
Another piece of evidence that might be conducive to the evaluation involves whether the conditions and factors influencing the seafood market remained unchanged since the author cites the study conducted for the past 5 years to predict the future market. The argument will be enfeebled, for example, if the water condition around Bay City suffers a severe deterioration and therefore the quality of the seafood is no longer as good as it was, or if citizens show a disinclination to seafood because of the advocate by marine protection organizations. Thus, the author would have to examine those conditions before assuming the continuous growth.
Last but not least, one more evidence that is also important to the argument could come from the nationwide statistics, whether it can be equally applied to Bay City. The nation as a whole might or might not share similarities with Bay City. For instance, the restaurants in Bay City could be really rare which might be implied from the evidence that there are no restaurants with the specialty in seafood currently. This leads to the inclination that residents there get used to cooking at home instead of prowling outside. If so, there is no doubt that the argument will be weaker. Taking these scenarios into account definitely plays a vital role in the development of the argument, therefore, being dispensable.
Apparently, in order to get a comprehensive argument that is both compelling and well-founded, additional evidence should be given by the author with detailed interpretation. This includes, but not limited to, detailed information about the sales study, the variance of conditions affecting the seafood market, and the feasibility of applying the nationwide statistics to Bay City.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not exactly
argument 2 -- similar to argument 1
argument 3 -- OK
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Let's analyze the structure of the statement and argue accordingly:
condition 1:
A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood.
condition 2:
Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating.
conclusion:
Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable.
then here goes the argument:
argument 1:
maybe people like to eat sea seafood dishes beside other dishes.
argument 2:
your argument 3
argument 3:
suppose the restaurant specializes in seafood, it doesn't mean it will be quite popular and profitable.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 495 350
No. of Characters: 2468 1500
No. of Different Words: 233 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.717 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.986 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.759 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 177 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 143 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 102 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.053 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.38 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.632 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.338 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.546 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.109 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 325, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...ities, the future consumption might not be as promising as what we can imply from the vague num...
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Line 3, column 428, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ercent. This would certainly weaken the authors argument. On the other hand, if the sal...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 737, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...ion that the seafood market is going to be promising in the future. Another piece of evid...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, first, however, if, really, so, then, therefore, thus, well, for example, for instance, no doubt, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 35.0 16.3942115768 213% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2530.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 495.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11111111111 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71684168287 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83339653146 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 204.123752495 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486868686869 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 799.2 705.55239521 113% => 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: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.827424892 57.8364921388 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.157894737 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0526315789 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.15789473684 5.70786347227 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.228273390342 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0728264676591 0.0743258471296 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0839872338168 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133640894163 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0548809313085 0.0628817314937 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 98.500998004 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.