“Techcorporation is our top pick for investment this term. We urge all of our clients to invest in this new company. For the first time in ten years, a company that has developed satellite technology has been approved by the FTA to compete with the current satellite provider. That company is Techcorporation. A consumer survey last year indicated that over eighty percent of respondents were dissatisfied with the current satellite television provider and would want to switch to another provider if the industry were not a monopoly. Thus, the new venture of Techcorporation into satellite television will prove to be highly profitable for those who invest now.”
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the advice and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the advice.
The author of the newsletter is advicing investors to invest their money in the new company, Techcorporation as it is his conclusion that it is the best pick for investment in that term. His conclusion is based on the premise that Techcorporation has been approbated by the FTA to compete with the current satellite provider and on the results of a consumer survey that indicates that over eighty percent of respondents were dissatisfied with their current satellite television provider and would switch to another provider if the option was available. However, to truly evaluate the credibility of the author's advice, three main questions need to be answered.
Firstly, just because Techcorporation is approved by the FTA, does it make the fact that they will be successfully able to compete on a profitable level with the current service provider certain? It is possible that the FTA approved Techcorporation because their satellite program was compliant with the rules developed by the FTA. But their satellite could be compliant with the rules and still lack the technological advancements to match or exceed the quality of the current satellite provider. If this were to be true, Techcorporation would not be able to fulfill te expectations of the author and his advice would prove to be a false one.
Second, we need to know for sure, is the consumer survey that the author is using reliable enough to back his advice up, and that how many people exactly responded to the survey anyway? Perhaps, only upto a hundred responses were collected and that make the specious statistic of over eighty percent amount to only about eighty people, which is not enough to make a generalized conclusion about the overall tendency of the customers. It is also possible that the survey itself is not a reliable source of information and that their results could be adulterated and inaccurate. If either of the above happens to be true, author's advice does not hold water.
Moreover, even if we assume that the satellite technology developed by Techcorporation is sound enough and so are the results of the survey used, the question that is still unanswered is that does Techcorporation have a good enough business model to reach breakeven with the heavy costs involved with satellite technology and to then actually become profitable? There is a possiblity that their marketing, customer service or some other department lacks the efficiency required to keep up with the current service providers and hence prevent the company from becoming profitable. If this happens to be true, investing in Techcorporation would not make money for the investors proving the author's advice false.
As it stands right now, author's advice is not a reasonable one and cannot be trusted easily. The above questions would needed to be answered in order to clearly evaluate how good the advice is.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 473 350
No. of Characters: 2363 1500
No. of Different Words: 205 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.664 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.996 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.895 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.562 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.545 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.352 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.352 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 604, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...o truly evaluate the credibility of the authors advice, three main questions need to be...
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Line 4, column 688, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ake money for the investors proving the authors advice false. As it stands right now, ...
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Line 5, column 119, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'need'
Suggestion: need
...usted easily. The above questions would needed to be answered in order to clearly eval...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, anyway, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, moreover, second, so, still, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.6327345309 178% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2400.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 473.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07399577167 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66353547975 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92161832626 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450317124736 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 769.5 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.0914170883 57.8364921388 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.0 119.503703932 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.5625 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 5.70786347227 107% => 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: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21595612468 0.218282227539 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0733400931979 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702441722257 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120580744952 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0898803861841 0.0628817314937 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.72 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 12.3882235529 157% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.9071856287 168% => 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.