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 current headquarters. Moreover, Middleburg 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 author states that Supercorp has made the best decision to move its headquarters from Middleburg to Corporateville due to a variety of reasons: Corporateville has recently had an increase in the number of homeowners, Corporateville has lower taxes than Middleburg and finally according to a survey, Supercorp's employees prefer a less urban setting to live in, which - in this case - happens to be Corporateville. The argument, however, is based on assumptions that are lacking evidence and thus the author's argument to move Supercorp's headquarters to Corporateville is unwarranted.
First and foremost, the author states that there has been an increase in the number of homeowners in Corporateville thus assuming that Corporateville is a more superior place to live than Middleburg. However, the author fails to provided adequate statistics to compare the two areas. How many homeowners are there currently in Middleburg compared to Corporateville? Could it be that even with the current surge in Corporateville, the number of homeowners still remain greater in Middleburg? The housing market is dependent on a number of different factors such as supply and demand. Perhaps the demand for housing is so high in Middleburg that many people would like to live there but because the prices are too high (due to an increase in demand), many people are forced to buy homes in Corporateville instead. Further investigation and evidence is needed before the author can assume that a surge in homeowners in Corporateville is due to its superiority over Middleburg.
Second, the survey cited by the author stated that its employee prefer to live in a less urban setting. However there is no evidence to support the direct correlation between wanting to live in a less urban setting and wanting to work in a less urban setting. There is a difference between the two, and the author fails to provide this correlation. What if the employees do in fact want to live in a less urban setting but actually prefer to work in a urban setting as it grants them access to more services during and after work. For example, what if the employees run errands during their lunch break, or get together after work hours due to the ease of access to services in the urban area. A more cogent and precise survey with specific questions of preference for work is needed to establish the employees' needs before an assumption can be made.
Last, the author assumes that the lower taxes in Corporateville automatically deems it a safer place to live. However, there is no evidence to suggest that there is a direct correlation between lower taxes and lower crime rates. Statistics on crime rates should be provided from both Corporateville and Middleburg before a statement can be made.
In conclusion, the author makes an argument that is based on assumptions that are lacking further details. In order to make his/her case stronger, further investigation and evidence needs to be provided.
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'thus', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'in fact', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.253308128544 0.25644967241 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.170132325142 0.15541462614 109% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0831758034026 0.0836205057962 99% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0453686200378 0.0520304965353 87% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0170132325142 0.0272364105082 62% => OK
Prepositions: 0.130434782609 0.125424944231 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0378071833648 0.0416121511921 91% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.04703649038 2.79052419416 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0586011342155 0.026700313972 219% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.102079395085 0.113004496875 90% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00945179584121 0.0255425247493 37% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0132325141777 0.0127820249294 104% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2981.0 2731.13054187 109% => OK
No of words: 491.0 446.07635468 110% => OK
Chars per words: 6.07128309572 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70728369723 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.364562118126 0.378187486979 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.270875763747 0.287650121315 94% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.193482688391 0.208842608468 93% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.126272912424 0.135150697306 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04703649038 2.79052419416 109% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 207.018472906 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.415478615071 0.469332199767 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 46.7447701058 52.1807786196 90% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.039408867 100% => OK
Sentence length: 24.55 23.2022227129 106% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.6651036787 57.7814097925 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.05 141.986410481 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.55 23.2022227129 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.7 0.724660767414 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 3.58251231527 195% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 51.6375763747 51.9672348444 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.81300813008 1.8405768891 99% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.53071942387 0.441005458295 120% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.156228254187 0.135418324435 115% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.090796070801 0.0829849096947 109% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.58854322597 0.58762219726 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.13883851618 0.147661913831 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.225918354461 0.193483328276 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116740259586 0.0970749176394 120% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.402852416154 0.42659136922 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.143276596843 0.0774707102158 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.342829338441 0.312017818177 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.14276827685 0.0698173142475 204% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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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