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 of this letter claims that Adams Realty is the superior company to use when selling a home, based on the number and type of employees, as well as the yearly revenue and the author’s personal experience. However, the author makes several assumptions when making this claim, and the validity of these assumptions is unknown as they are not supported by evidence.
First, the author asserts that Adams Realty has fifteen more real estate agents than Fitch Realty, where most of the agents are part-time employees. The author does not provide information on the quality of these agents’ work or the promptness of their responses to clients. Having more full-time employees does not guarantee a better experience with a company, as the 40 full-time employees at Adams Realty could all be inadequate at their jobs while the 25 mostly part-time employees at Fitch Realty could be stellar. These claims regarding the number and type of employees at each firm may not be supported when employees are assessed for their quality of service and prompt responses, which will weaken the author’s claim of Adams Realty as the superior choice.
Furthermore, the author states that Adams Realty reported higher revenue and higher average homes sales compared to Fitch Realty in the previous year. What size are the lots and homes each company lists? It is possible that Fitch Realty mainly sells smaller homes or condos compared to Adams Realty, which tend to sell for less than larger, single-family homes on large lots. The revenue and average home sale of each company does not necessarily mean that one is better than the other; the revenue generated by Adams Realty could have come from selling fewer, more expensive homes, while the revenue from Fitch could have come from selling many, smaller homes. The author needs to provide more information to corroborate this statement for it to support their argument.
Finally, the author states that homes listed with Adams Realty sell faster than homes listed with Fitch Realty. However, there are many factors that go into how long a house stays on the market. What is the state of the market? Is it better for buying or for selling? Ten years ago when the author sold their first home with Fitch Realty, the market was most likely very different than it is today. The state of a property for sale also impacts its duration on the market. What are the differences between the properties the author sold? If the house sold by Fitch Realty ten years ago was small and poorly maintained, then its duration on the market is likely related to its condition than to the realty company. Additionally, if the house the author sold last year through Adams Realty was much larger or in much better condition than the previously sold house, then its short duration on the market likely has less to do with the realty company and more to do with its condition. The author needs to provide this information for their claims to be supported by this assumption.
The author of this letter claims that Adams Realty is the superior company to use when selling a home, yet their assertion is mostly based on unsupported assumptions. If proven false, these assumptions will cause the author’s claim to collapse, and their argument will no longer be valid.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 557 350
No. of Characters: 2674 1500
No. of Different Words: 205 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.858 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.801 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.292 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 191 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.217 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.931 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.609 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.526 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 382, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...e market was most likely very different than it is today. The state of a property fo...
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Line 9, column 290, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...their argument will no longer be valid.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, regarding, so, then, well, while, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2748.0 2260.96107784 122% => OK
No of words: 557.0 441.139720559 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93357271095 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85807034144 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40046715991 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.400359066427 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 833.4 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.0296405022 57.8364921388 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.47826087 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2173913043 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.21739130435 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246045027534 0.218282227539 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0761648857534 0.0743258471296 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0801358758081 0.0701772020484 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145126675702 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0570470669595 0.0628817314937 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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.