"We recommend that Monarch Books open a café in its store. Monarch, having been in business at the same location for more than twenty years, has a large customer base because it is known for its wide selection of books on all subjects. Clearly, opening the café would attract more customers. Space could be made for the café by discontinuing the children's book section, which will probably become less popular given that the most recent national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten. Opening a café will allow Monarch to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened its own café."
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
The argument assumes that the opening of a cafe will attract more customers and based on this assumptions concludes that the Monarch Books will be able to compete with the Regal Books. Though the argument seems logical, it isn't so. The authors fails to answer many questions that led to the assumptions for eg, he states that the monarch books have a large customer base due to its wide range of books but doesn't give specific information about the customer group. Such unanswered questions make the argument untenable.
The first assumptions the author makes is that the due to...
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Sentence: The argument assumes that the opening of a cafe will attract more customers and based on this assumptions concludes that the Monarch Books will be able to compete with the Regal Books.
Description: A determiner/pronoun, singular is not usually followed by a noun, plural, common
Suggestion: Refer to this and assumptions
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
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No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
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No. of Different Words: 198 200
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Average Word Length: 4.99 4.6
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No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
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Sentence Length SD: 12.465 7.5
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Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.565 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.154 0.07
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