The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend.
"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town—Adams Realty and Fitch Realty—Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."
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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author’s inclination towards Adams Realty is justified on his own intra-personal level, given his recent successful sale through it. One can see that the author really wants to promote Adams Realty over Fitch Realty in good faith but fails to provide substantial merit to his report in doing so. The conclusion is unjustified over three main premises and has based itself on some rather less thought-out assumptions.
Firstly, quantity does not define quality. Adams Realty may have more real estate agents than Fitch Realty but that could be justified through a sundry of possibilities; Maybe Fitch’s is just a family business that is happy with its market and while Adams is a professional firm indubitably aimed at providing job opportunities and see its own economic growth. Maybe the employees at Adams work for 4 hours a day and those at Fitch Realty- even the ones doing a part-time job work for more hours than Adams’.
Second. While the revenue-generation over the same period of time could possibly pose as a valid argument of superiority over Fitch Realty, we know very little about what economy class is dealt by both the firms. It could simply be a matter of Adams dealing with high-cost real estate and Fitch dealing with a low economy class of customers. Just the revenue-generation without the actual data of transactions elucidate very little of Adams Realty’s hegemony.
Lastly, the author claims that it took Fitch four months to sell his house ten years ago while it only took Adams Realty one month to do the same last year. This can in no way be quantified as justifiable to either parties of competition since the author fails to take into account the chronological time-gap.
It’s easier to sell anything these days courtesy of commercialization, internet-era and marketing; ten years ago all of these factors contributing to a speedy business were little or non-existent. Hence this comparison completely unjustified since he has no recent experience with Fitch Realty whatsoever and cannot speak for their current service.
In conclusion, the author’s preference of Adams over Fitch is highly unsubstantiated. Perhaps the author would’ve made his claim more concrete by providing more data, i.e. transaction records and number of dealings of last year’s revenue of both parties; we are not even given the information of whether Adams existed 10 years ago. One may also see Adams and Fitch as a high-cost real estate firms and an economy-cost real estate firm respectively—going to whomever accordingly to their income-classes. But the author hasn’t cleared out aspects which rely on a slippery slope of lazy assumptions inevitably leading to a foot-loose conclusion. Until the author provides us with evidence that could merit his claim, his promotion in question relies heavily on a balance of probability- one that cannot be considered plausible.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 52, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...le the revenue-generation over the same period of time could possibly pose as a valid argument...
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Line 5, column 67, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
...generation over the same period of time could possibly pose as a valid argument of superiority...
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Line 8, column 41, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'days'' or 'day's'?
Suggestion: days'; day's
...It's easier to sell anything these days courtesy of commercialization, internet...
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Line 8, column 202, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...y business were little or non-existent. Hence this comparison completely unjustified ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['accordingly', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'if', 'lastly', 'may', 'really', 'second', 'so', 'while', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.285447761194 0.25644967241 111% => OK
Verbs: 0.123134328358 0.15541462614 79% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0932835820896 0.0836205057962 112% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0559701492537 0.0520304965353 108% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0429104477612 0.0272364105082 158% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.117537313433 0.125424944231 94% => OK
Participles: 0.035447761194 0.0416121511921 85% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.17499438453 2.79052419416 114% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0223880597015 0.026700313972 84% => OK
Particles: 0.00186567164179 0.001811407834 103% => OK
Determiners: 0.0858208955224 0.113004496875 76% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0205223880597 0.0255425247493 80% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00932835820896 0.0127820249294 73% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2935.0 2731.13054187 107% => OK
No of words: 468.0 446.07635468 105% => OK
Chars per words: 6.27136752137 6.12365571057 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.57801047555 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.352564102564 0.378187486979 93% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.25 0.287650121315 87% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.188034188034 0.208842608468 90% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.145299145299 0.135150697306 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17499438453 2.79052419416 114% => OK
Unique words: 259.0 207.018472906 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553418803419 0.469332199767 118% => OK
Word variations: 66.9235359996 52.1807786196 128% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.039408867 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.4 23.2022227129 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.5246151528 57.7814097925 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.75 141.986410481 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4 23.2022227129 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.7 0.724660767414 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 48.4 51.9672348444 93% => OK
Elegance: 1.97478991597 1.8405768891 107% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.455095030166 0.441005458295 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0617292386695 0.135418324435 46% => Sentence sentence coherence is low.
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0571255508266 0.0829849096947 69% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.513736292026 0.58762219726 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.186355262716 0.147661913831 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148014410772 0.193483328276 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0839804827163 0.0970749176394 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.207532057265 0.42659136922 49% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0286919044262 0.0774707102158 37% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.257645724538 0.312017818177 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0627621867444 0.0698173142475 90% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.82512315271 187% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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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