The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
Comprehensive Analysis of businesses to illuminate multiple factors that influence the overall popularity and profitability of the business has become a powerful approach to increase general business throughput. On one hand, taking too many factors into consideration while analyzing any business will lead to extremely obscure and complex derivations which may not provide any clear indices about the business itself. On the other hand, taking very few factors in view during analysis will lead to faulty conclusions. In the preceding statement, the author claims that skateboarding is the main cause of declining business of the store owners in Central Plaza. Though this claim may be based on some analysis, the author presents a poorly reasoned argument based on several questionable premises and assumptions. Based solely on the evidence provided by the author, we cannot accept this argument as valid.
The primary issue with the author's reasoning lies in his unsubstantiated premises. The author states that store owners believe that the debacle surrounding their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the Plaza. The author makes no effort of verifying this claim in a judicious way. We simply cannot believe the hunches of the businessmen without any supporting evidence. Also, the author is trying to pinpoint a reason for low business output by analyzing external factors. However, it is quite possible that the stores in the Plaza have intrinsic shortcomings which led to the decline in their popularity. The author has not provided any evidence of verifying the intrinsic factors that influence the popularity of the stores. The author's premises, the basis for his argument, lack any legitimate evidentiary support and render his conclusion unacceptable.
In addition, the author makes several assumptions that remain unproven. Firstly, the dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism is attributed to skateboard users. It is highly likely that several factors may have added up to create such a situation. For example, lack of security and surveillance, or shortage of janitors. Second, the author assumes that the fall in popularity of stores is due to a single reason i.e. skateboard users. However, in any practical business situation, the cause of any issue is seldom singular. Hence, the assumption that banning skateboards will resolve the problem of falling popularity of the stores in the Plaza is baseless. The author weakens his argument by making assumptions and failing to provide explication of the links between skateboard users and impact on business.
While there are several flaws in the key premises and assumptions made by the author, it is not to say that the entire argument is completely baseless. The author may have made an astute observation by linking popularity of businesses with skateboard users. However, the observations need bolstering evidence that can prove his conclusions completely. By providing evidence of instances where skateboarding has led to vandalism and eventual decline in business would strengthen the argument immensely.
In sum, the author's illogical argument is based on unsupported premises and unsubstantiated assumptions that render his conclusion invalid. If the author truly hopes to change his readers' minds on the issue, he would have to largely restructure his argument, fix the flaws in his logic, clearly explicate his assumptions, and provide evidentiary support. Without these things, his poorly reasoned argument will likely convince few people.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Message: Consider replacing "in a judicious way" with adverb for "judicious"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...makes no effort of verifying this claim in a judicious way. We simply cannot believe the hunches o...
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Message: You should probably use 'premise'.
Suggestion: premise
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'for example', 'in addition', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.27018121911 0.240241500013 112% => OK
Verbs: 0.151565074135 0.157235817809 96% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0840197693575 0.0880659088768 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0444810543657 0.0497285424764 89% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0329489291598 0.0444667217837 74% => OK
Prepositions: 0.121911037891 0.12292977631 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0543657331137 0.0406280797675 134% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.94370542903 2.79330140395 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0247116968699 0.030933414821 80% => OK
Particles: 0.00164744645799 0.0016655270985 99% => OK
Determiners: 0.118616144975 0.0997080785238 119% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0214168039539 0.0249443105267 86% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0131795716639 0.0148568991511 89% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3559.0 2732.02544248 130% => OK
No of words: 550.0 452.878318584 121% => OK
Chars per words: 6.47090909091 6.0361032391 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84273464058 4.58838876751 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.463636363636 0.366273622748 127% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.350909090909 0.280924506359 125% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.26 0.200843997647 129% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.167272727273 0.132149295362 127% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94370542903 2.79330140395 105% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 219.290929204 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465454545455 0.48968727796 95% => OK
Word variations: 55.1582989668 55.4138127331 100% => OK
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6194690265 145% => OK
Sentence length: 18.3333333333 23.380412469 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4832790341 59.4972553346 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.633333333 141.124799967 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3333333333 23.380412469 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.674092028746 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 53.4242424242 51.4728631049 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.94964028777 1.64882698954 118% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.456372667425 0.391690518653 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0929182094212 0.123202303941 75% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0784636998047 0.077325440228 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.516694139843 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.145391683979 0.149214159877 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.181925975219 0.161403998019 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116143514828 0.0892212321368 130% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.541582454629 0.385218514788 141% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.130313480065 0.0692045440612 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.32194112101 0.275328986314 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100023015772 0.0653680567796 153% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.30420353982 245% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 11.0 3.66592920354 300% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 22.0 13.5995575221 162% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.