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, it avers that the new Captain Seafood restaurant in Bay City which specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable. The author has come to this conclusion based on the nationwide study that the majority of families who are two-income earners eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago and are simultaneously more concerned about healthful eating. However, before this argument can be properly evaluated, three pieces of evidence must be collected and analyzed.
First, it is important to determine whether all of the families who are double income earners savour seafood and are particular about the healthiness of what they consume. It is possible that some may be repulsive to the taste and aroma of seafood and some of them do not give attention to what they eat. Perhaps, a number of these families prefer to eat from fast-food restaurants as they find it more pleasurable and quicker. Haply, some of the families that care about what they eat would go for vegetable-rich menus. If either of these scenarios has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
Second, it is crucial to ascertain if the statistics of the sales study is made up of only two-income families who enjoy eating seafood dishes. The author prematurely assumes that the increased sales study during the past five years was because of the two-income families. However, this might not be the case. Maybe, a particular small portion of these families frequently visited the restaurants and during the five years might have moved from Bay City area. More so, the study could have majorly consisted of families who are not two-income earners and opted for sea food to celebrate special occasions. If the above is true, then the argument does not hold water.
Furthermore, it is essential to establish if the nationwide study conducted was a true representation of the families in Bay City. The author impetuously posits that since the majority of the families in Bay City were two-income earners, it also would concur to the nationwide study which showed that such families had lesser homemade meals. Nevertheless, the case might be different. Possibly, families in other cities comprised a larger part of the study. This would mean that Bay City only contributed to a minute fraction to the study. Thus, cannot be generalized. Peradventure, families in Bay City preferred home-cooked meals since despite their two jobs they still had time to cook their meals themselves. If one of them has credit, then the conclusion drawn in the argument is remarkably weakened.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to provide the three pieces of evidence stated above and perhaps conduct a systematic research study, then it will be possible to determine whether new Captain Seafood restaurant in Bay City which specializes in seafood will be quite popular and profitable.
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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: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 497 350
No. of Characters: 2492 1500
No. of Different Words: 228 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.722 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.014 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.774 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 137 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 103 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 68 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.708 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.727 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.298 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.486 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.074 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 247, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...ide study that the majority of families who are two-income earners eat significantly fe...
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Line 3, column 45, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...t, it is important to determine whether all of the families who are double income earners ...
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Line 3, column 436, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...it more pleasurable and quicker. Haply, some of the families that care about what they eat ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, still, then, thus, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2557.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 497.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14486921529 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85255817159 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468812877264 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 815.4 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.5337371499 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.541666667 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7083333333 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45833333333 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202599478661 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0575720804575 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0654204591229 0.0701772020484 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125241836588 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0505827722964 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 98.500998004 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => 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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