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A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood. Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable. Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument. Words Limit 450-600 words Introduction: The following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. Primarliy, the argument is based on a sales study, that the consumption of sea food in bay city has increased rendering the main Point, which is the authenticity of this sales study, and they have not Provided any evidence to support the authenticity of the sales study. Body: Fallacy 1: The argument fails to provide any evidence about the authenticity of the sales study. For one, they haven’t provided any criteria on how they had choosed residents, they might be talking to minority of people who like sea food. This lack of evidence could question the legitimacy of this case study. Moreover, the reason for there is no sea food restaurants are in Bay city area is because majority of the people in Bay city might don’t like sea food. Strengthening the argument: Had the argument provided any information regarding the criteria how they have choosed residents, Even then, the argument would have to further prove that, the majority of people in Bay city like Sea food. Fallacy 2: Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. This argument also leaves many unanswered questions. Even if the Two income families nationwide significantly eat at fewer house meals, doesn’t necessarily mean that the bay city will also not like Home meals. Nonetheless, they are also assuming that the two income families will also likely to eat seafood, when they will go to restaurants. Fallacy 3: Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable. Finally, the argument claims without warrant that what held 5 years ago will hold true today for Captain Food restaurant. Even if we assume that Two income families would likely to eat outside, the argument is still lacking because it does not provide information to show that the general economic climate will not change. Due to rising inflation they might would not be able to afford Seafood Conclusion: Because the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to make a convincing case that People of bay city would likely to buy Seafood from Captain restaurant.

Please guide me and give feedback on my response to the below mentioned argument essay. I need help to understand where i stand and how much improvement is required to get a good score in essays. Topic :- In surveys Mason city residents rank water sports(swimming, boating and fishing) among their favourite recreational activities. The Mason river flowing through the city is rarely used for the pursuits, however, and the city park department devotes little of its budget to maintaining riverside recreational activities. For years there have been complaints from residents about the quality of the river's water and the river's smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason river. Use of the river for water sports is, therefore, sure to increase. The city government should for that reason devote more money in this year's budget to riverside recreational activities. Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted. Response: The author's argument that the city government should devote more money in this year's budget to riverside recreational activity needs more information and thought. In the argument the author draws conclusions based on incomplete and vague assumptions. The Author diverts from the actual solution and fails to understand why the demand and craze for water sports have decreased among the residents. The author states that the favorite recreational activities of the residents of mason city is "rarely" to be seen now. This is because the Mason river flowing through the city is maintained. The river is no longer fit to be used for water sporting events because it is dirty. The author says that "little" of the budget is used for it. The term "little" is a vague assumption made by the author and it is not a fair implication of the conclusion. As the river maintenance might not require a lot of money or any more than it has been assigned. It might only require a dedicated team that works on the maintenance of the river. The author concludes that more money should be devoted towards the riverside recreational activities. But according to the assumptions made here, the implication here should have been that more money from the budget should be devoted to the maintenance of the river which in turn promotes riverside recreational activities. The argument could be better concluded by specifying more accurate numbers in case of assumptions on the budget for river maintenance. The author should concentrate on the maintenance of the river instead of promotion of recreational activities. I believe that the author fails to understand the demand and supply needs here as the demand of the water sports will increase only if the supply of clean water is provided.

Topic:In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago. Question:Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument. My Response: The following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. There were many unwarranted assumptions made in argument. The below are the few main reasons for which the argument is found flawed. Main reason for the argument to be found flawed is assuming no improvement in highway safety by considering the number of accidents. Because the population of Prunty County might have grown very larger in mean time. Instead the ratio of number of accidents to the current population should be considered while making such comparisons. Another major reason find the argument flawed is assuming that the improvement project taken up Butler County would work for Prunty County. Because there could be numerous reasons behind improvement project being success in Butler County which might not be there in Prunty County like the people's behaviour and attitude in Butler County could different from that of people in Prunty County. Further changes like increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough roads and improving visibility might not be the only reasons behind the decrease of accident rates. There could be some other reasons like cops rules, and fine amounts might be different, Due to which people might get scared to cross speed limits. And that could be the reason for decrease of accident rates. Finally It was mentioned that there was 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler Count than there were five years ago. But the comparison made in Prunty County was within one year. So there is lot of difference in periods in which comparison is made. These are all the evidences required to weaken the reasons which show argument flawed. And also to strengthen the assumptions made in argument.

TOEFL essay- Do u agree or disagree?It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Studying materials encompasses many scientific discoveries most of which are based on a variety of ideas, concepts and facts. However, I believe that ideas and concepts are playing a more important role in the formation of scientific discoveries and student are primarily required to master basic concepts in order to put their knowledge into practice and improve their critical thinking. Ideas and novel thoughts can lead to a more practical academic achievement, in comparison with rigid and insipid facts. Having a pragmatic approach toward science, help students to utilize what they have learnt in their lessons and design new materials and equipment. On the other hand, facts are only some principles that are being memorized without considering the real meanings they want to convey. Covalent Bond, for instance, is a basic chemistry fact that forms polymeric materials, but knowing how covalent bond function in different ways to produce new polymers is a concept and this concept might lead to synthesize new advanced polymers. Thus, a student who try to deliberate the concepts of covalent bonds, find its new applications. Eventually, he can become a prospective engineer, start a new company and produce a new polymeric sheet with significant properties. One way of critical thinking is to approach a problem or even an enigma from various angles and evaluate its aspects from different ideas. Having such notion in mind, will help students in their social life and relationships with others. Students who have developed this mindset can deal with the challenges and setbacks much more efficiently than those students who only tried to learn facts and principles. According to a research that is conducted in Amirkabir University of Technology in 2014, scientists claim that ruminating on scientific problems from different perspectives and assessing the pros and cons of diverse ideas will strengthen critical reasoning ability of students’ brains. The results of this research have been suggested that such students will show better cognitive ability to deal with failures in relationships and social problems associated with lack of critical thinking. All things considered, ideas and concepts have a more vital role than learning facts in students’ lives, whether from exploiting the concepts of studying materials or being capable of critical reasoning.