"Recently, we signed a contract with the Fly-Away Pest Control Company to provide pest control services at our warehouse in Palm City, but last month we discovered that over $20,000 worth of food there had been destroyed by pest damage. Meanwhile, the Buzzoff Pest Control Company, which we have used for many years in Palm City, continued to service our warehouse in Wintervale, and last month only $10,000 worth of the food stored there had been destroyed by pest damage. Even though the price charged by Fly-Away is considerably lower, our best means of saving money is to return to Buzzoff for all our pest control services."
The argument claims that signing a contract with Buzzoff is a better option than Fly-Away for the company’s pest control services because recently damages at the warehouse managed by Buzzoff is less than the other by Fly-Away. It sounds reasonable at first glance since the real loss amounts are cited, yet a closer examination of the argument reveals flawed assumptions resulting from weak or false reasoning.
To begin with, the argument claims that Buzzoff is a better pest control company with the comparison of the destroyed amount of food in the dollar at two warehouses managed by two different pest control companies, Buzzoff and Fly-Away. However, simply comparing two absolute values of losses may not be a piece of strong evidence unless the detailed circumstances of the two warehouses were given. Before making a conclusion, there are a few questions should be asked.
What are the ratios of destroyed food to the total stocks in each warehouse? If the warehouse in Palm City stored over $100,000 worth of food and the one in Wintervale stored only $30,000, Buzzoff is doing a better job than Fly-Away. What types of food is stored in two warehouses? Because a particular type of food attracts pest more than other types, the food type should be identified before the decision. Additionally, the conditions of the two warehouses need to be considered. There may be many other factors rather than which pest control company maintains which warehouse. It could be that the warehouse in Palm City had been built long before the one in Wintervale or the environmental situation of Palm City makes the pest control job harder than Wintervale. Unless all these factors are taken into account, the decision may be skewed.
Moreover, the passage states that the company recently made a new contract with Fly-Away. Thus, we don’t know how long the new pest control company has managed the company warehouse and the duration is not long enough to evaluate the performance of a new service provider.
In sum, lacking concrete and appealing evidence, the author’s board conclusion about Buzzoff is the better option for the company’s pest control services is dubious. In order to substantiate the claim, the author should look into factors that the overall circumstances of both warehouses and two different cities, the reasonable duration for the service evaluation for both providers.
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Comments
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: 17 15
No. of Words: 392 350
No. of Characters: 1958 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.45 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.995 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.623 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.059 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.753 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.564 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
The argument claims that signing a contr...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...resulting from weak or false reasoning. To begin with, the argument claims that ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...re are a few questions should be asked. What are the ratios of destroyed food to...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...to account, the decision may be skewed. Moreover, the passage states that the co...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... performance of a new service provider. In sum, lacking concrete and appealing e...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... service evaluation for both providers.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, thus, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2020.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 392.0 441.139720559 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15306122449 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80254758375 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.474489795918 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 625.5 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.6033676134 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.823529412 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0588235294 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.76470588235 5.70786347227 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348436692458 0.218282227539 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107998666771 0.0743258471296 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0890309226137 0.0701772020484 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194618851938 0.128457276422 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0471815841397 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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.