The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of Movies Galore, a chain of video rental stores.
"In order to reverse the recent decline in our profits, we must reduce operating expenses at Movies Galore's ten video rental stores. Since we are famous for our special bargains, raising our rental prices is not a viable way to improve profits. Last month our store in downtown Marston significantly decreased its operating expenses by closing at 6:00 P.M. rather than 9:00 P.M. and by reducing its stock by eliminating all movies released more than five years ago. Therefore, in order to increase profits without jeopardizing our reputation for offering great movies at low prices, we recommend implementing similar changes in our other nine Movies Galore stores."
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 evaluate the recommendation.
The owner of Movies Galore concludes that in order to reverse the recent decline in profits, they must reduce operating costs at their ten stores. The owner asserts that at their downtown location, operating expenses have been reduced by closing earlier and eliminating movies older than five years. This conclusion relies on assumptions for which have no concise evidence. Movies Galore must analyze these assumptions in order to determine the best solution to their problem.
First, the owner assumes that because reducing operating expenses at their downtown location was successful, that it must be true at all locations. A downtown area of a city is usually heavily populated and fast moving. This could be one reason for the success of this store, but the owner fails to analyze this data. The nine other locations have no guarantee that they will be successful based off of this assumption. A Movies Galore store that is located in the midst of the country might not have similar results.
The Movies Galore owner states that they are known for offering great movies at low prices, so raising rental prices is not an option. Assuming that raising the rental prices will result in less profit is dubious. Maybe those nine other locations are all in wealthy neighborhoods, where residents will gladly pay a higher price for a great movie. Or maybe the owner is correct in his/her statement, and raising the prices will be hinder the business. Either way, the owner of Movies Galore does not support his/her claims with fact.
To improve this argument, the owner should research and present data on the population density near each Movies Galore location. This could help the owner decide if reducing operating expenses will, in fact, reverse the decline in profit. The argument could also be strengthened if the owner surveyed residents near each movie store location to see how much they would be willing to pay for a Movies Galore movie. A survey could also prove beneficial in selecting the movies that will be kept in stock. It is possible that locals want to see movies from five years ago, thus removing such movies from shelves could have detrimental effects on business received.
In conclusion, the owner of Movies Galore is interested in reversing the recent decline in profits, but relies on fallacious assumptions. The owner may not be wrong to assert such changes in operation will result in success for the company, but the lack of evidence and data hinders his/her argument.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 392, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a movie' or simply 'Movies'?
Suggestion: a movie; Movies
...w much they would be willing to pay for a Movies Galore movie. A survey could also prove...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, then, thus, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2092.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 417.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01678657074 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43313942534 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491606714628 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 648.9 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.013785246 57.8364921388 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.619047619 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8571428571 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.09523809524 5.70786347227 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258640774073 0.218282227539 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0918830048385 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0911192855074 0.0701772020484 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161335036733 0.128457276422 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.066995058255 0.0628817314937 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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