“SuperCorp recently moved its headquarters to Corporateville. The recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves that Corporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg, the home of SuperCorp's original headquarters. Moreover, Middlesburg is a predominately urban area and according to an employee survey, SuperCorp has determined that its workers prefer to live in an area that is not urban. Finally, Corporateville has lower taxes than Middlesburg, making it not only a safer place to work but also a cheaper one. Therefore, Supercorp clearly made the best decision.”
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.
The reasoning following the claim that SuperCorp headquarter’s changed location to Corporateville being the best decision is riddled with presumptuous evidence. Faulty logic pervades the arguments which neglects to disclose crucial information and consider potentially revelatory aspects of location change for a business. Before SuperCorp’s claim can be accurately assessed as valid or not, information concerning homeowners move to Corporateville and the employee survey is needed, greater evidence is needed for certain assumptions such as lower taxes makes a certain area more safe, and lastly, consideration of other effects of moving headquarters.
SuperCorp is quick to connect the movement of homeowners into Corporateville as a sign of superior location. A rise in homeowners in one location, without further information, does not necessarily determine a place superior than others. There is no disclosure of these homeowners having any opinion on their preference of Corporateville over any other place to live. There is a possibility the new homeowners had a limited choice of where to settle. Middlesburg could potentially be superior, but more expensive or overcrowded. Corporateville could possibly serve a certain population of people better than Middlesburg, but if SuperCorp is not compiled or serving the population of Corporateville then the characteristics of Corporateville would not benefit SuperCorp where it might benefit the new homeowners. Equally, those moving into Corporateville could be relocating because it is a superior location, but without the evidence of why new homeowners are settling in Corporateville, SuperCorp cannot logically make this claim.
Much like argument that Corporateville is superior, the claims made based off of the employee survey fail to divulge pivotal information. The argument states employees prefer not to live in an urban area which Middlesburg is, but there is uncertainty to the options offered in the survey. Did the survey ask if the employees preferred to live on the beach or an urban area? The answer pitting the employees against urban locations could be irrelevant to the argument. Without such contextual information, the assessment of the validity of this argument is impossible. The best question to ask the employees would be “Where would you prefer to live: Corporateville or Middlesburg?” Yet, even with this question narrowing to the specifics relevant to the argument that Corporateville is better, SuperCorp is assuming the preference of where the employees would prefer to live is relevant to the relocation of headquarters. Making the connection of why this information would be helpful in determining the quality of the decision would strengthen SuperCorp’s argument.
The assumptions meant to bolster SuperCorp’s argument do not stop with the employee survey. SuperCorp argues lower taxes means greater safety without explaining the connection between the two variables. Examples of this being a positive correlation would benefit SuperCorp’s argument. Furthermore, SuperCorp supplies a dearth supply of the multifaceted effects of moving the headquarters. There is no discussion of the effects on business, sales, and the fiscal costs. The argument assumes these effects are all-worthwhile without addressing why.
The claim of a relocation of SuperCorp’s headquarters feels bold and audacious because of a scarce supply of evidence. Further development of certain arguments could either bolster or deteriorate SuperCorp’s argument, but without greater evidence, the claim remains weak.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 531 350
No. of Characters: 2989 1500
No. of Different Words: 223 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.8 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.629 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.258 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 238 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 201 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 155 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 105 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.423 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.299 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.308 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.298 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.502 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 226, Rule ID: SUPERIOR_THAN[1]
Message: The adjective superior is normally used with 'to'.
Suggestion: to
... necessarily determine a place superior than others. There is no disclosure of these...
^^^^
Line 3, column 545, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
...xpensive or overcrowded. Corporateville could possibly serve a certain population of people be...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, if, lastly, so, then, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 55.5748502994 131% => OK
Nominalization: 41.0 16.3942115768 250% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3104.0 2260.96107784 137% => OK
No of words: 531.0 441.139720559 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.84557438795 5.12650576532 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80035803286 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.51601308079 2.78398813304 126% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457627118644 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 972.9 705.55239521 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.3434345573 57.8364921388 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.16 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.24 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.16 5.70786347227 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.315979362736 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0930742243083 0.0743258471296 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067606944369 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186573440497 0.128457276422 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0570048781901 0.0628817314937 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.3799401198 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.65 12.5979740519 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 98.500998004 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.9071856287 143% => 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
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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.