“Since a competing lower-priced newspaper, The Bugle, was started five years ago, The Mercury’s circulation has declined by 10,000 readers. The best way to get more people to read The Mercury is to reduce its price below that of The Bugle, at least until circulation increases to former levels. The increased circulation of The Mercury will attract more businesses to buy advertising space in the paper.”
The argument states that in order to counter the decrease of the mercury’s circulation, its price should be lowered to the level of that of another newspaper, the bugle. stated in this way the argument fails to mention key factors on the basis of which it could be evaluated. therefore, the conclusion is weak and has several flaws.
First, the argument readily assumes that a lower price will undoubtedly lead to an increase of readers. this is a very weak and unsupported claim as the argument doesn’t demonstrate any correlation between price of a newspaper and its popularity. Moreover, it could be totally possible that the reason why the mercury’s circulation has declined compared to that of the bugle is rather the quality of its content.
Second, the argument suggests that discount in price of the mercury’s newspaper should be maintain at least until it has enticed enough readers. one again, the argument provides no substantive evidence to prove that the attracted new readers will still be loyal and buy the newspaper when its price will be back to normal. Furthermore, the idea of lowering the price temporarily might just have a short-term effect and cannot be considered as a sustainable solution.
Finally, it is assumed that if by any chance the number of readers for the mercury’s newspaper increases the number of businesses that want to buy advertising space will increase. again, there is nothing to justify this claim. The argument should have based its claim on tangible evidences such as data for instance or should have conducted a survey to get businesses insights. On the opposite, it may be that the type of readers of the mercury’s newspaper doesn’t correspond to the type of client the businesses want to target. without such information, one is left with the impression that the claim is more of a wishful thinking rather than a substantive evidence
To conclude, the argument is flawed for the above-mentioned reasons and is therefore unconvincing. The argument could be considerably strengthened if it mentioned all the relevant factors and used a more holistic approach. In fact, no clear evidence or analysis seems to have been made to supports the claims. without this information, the argument remains unsubstantiated and open to debate.
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- The falling revenues that the company is experiencing coincide with delays in manufacturing. These delays, in turn, are due in large part to poor planning in purchasing metals. Consider further that the manager of the department that handles purchasing of 55
- “Since a competing lower-priced newspaper, The Bugle, was started five years ago, The Mercury’s circulation has declined by 10,000 readers. The best way to get more people to read The Mercury is to reduce its price below that of The Bugle, at least un 58
- The package of benefits and incentives that Ready to Ware offers to professional staff is too costly Our quarterly profits have declined since the package was introduced two years ago at the time of our incorporation Moreover the package had little positi 76
- The following appeared as part of an article in the business section of a local newspaper. “Motorcycle X has been manufactured in the United States for over 70 years. Although one foreign company has copied the motorcycle and is selling it for less, the 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...f that of another newspaper, the bugle. stated in this way the argument fails to menti...
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...lusion is weak and has several flaws. First, the argument readily assumes that...
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...ubtedly lead to an increase of readers. this is a very weak and unsupported claim as...
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...s rather the quality of its content. Second, the argument suggests that disco...
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Suggestion: maintained
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...considered as a sustainable solution. Finally, it is assumed that if by any ch...
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...s the number of businesses that want to buy advertising space will increase. again,...
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...s unsubstantiated and open to debate.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, if, may, moreover, second, so, still, then, therefore, at least, for instance, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1963.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 375.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23466666667 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09969002034 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.488 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 608.4 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.1419101749 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.470588235 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0588235294 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.29411764706 5.21951772744 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 7.80617977528 179% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216614032541 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0722298076266 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0756416072891 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131087719156 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0687266199433 0.0667264976115 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.