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.
In this topic, the author described two real estate firms and tried to prove one firm (Adams Realty) taller than other (Fitch Realty). To make one company superior, the author had provided certain examples based on their revenues and number of agents. But there are certain assumptions which can undermine the author’s argument.
Author has mentioned Adams has 40 agents, so the efficiency of the company must be higher. But it may not be true in all the cases. It may happen that employees of Adams live in a state of torpor, whereas agents of Fitch are more workaholic. A greater number of agents always can’t provide a quality service. A quality service depends on skilled agents and quality is always important over quantity. It may happen that Fitch doesn’t take many projects and provides a good service to their limited number of clients and at last a great service matters most. If anyone gets a good service from a company or a firm, he will always prefer that firm only for any of his next requirement. He will not go to see their revenue or number of staffs as he has a soft corner for that firm.
Now, the author described their home sales or revenues. The author provided their total revenue. But he didn’t make any focus on the revenue per agent or the revenue generated by a firm per project. It may happen that Fitch has the experience to sell a home at a higher price. But their revenue is less as their number of agents are less. Wherein, Adams has somehow just sold more number of properties with average price and showing a large figure. So, the total revenue always can’t be an indicator of success.
At last, the author gave example about selling his two houses with two different firms. But he sold his first house almost ten years ago and sold his next house just a year ago. This two situations can’t be compared effectively as we all know the value of fixed assets such as land, apartment, and home generally increases as time advances. Economic conditions of people or market value were also may be different such a long time ago. It may also happen, the previous home had certain disadvantages such as it may not be located in a prime location where modern facilities were available. The demand for home or the population also may be increased now. That’s why next home was sold just in a month whereas the previous home took four months.
We cannot infer which firm is better from these mere facts as the author did. We need a deep analysis of several data or an analysis of customer satisfaction survey Programme to truly determine which firm is more superior.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- better to say: maybe Adams charge more service fees.
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 464 350
No. of Characters: 2083 1500
No. of Different Words: 227 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.641 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.489 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.294 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 144 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.185 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.882 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.593 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.28 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.28 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.15 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 309, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...higher price. But their revenue is less as their number of agents are less. Wherei...
^^
Line 5, column 224, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... determine which firm is more superior.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, whereas, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2166.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 462.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68831168831 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47789651519 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504329004329 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 695.7 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.6005748203 57.8364921388 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.2222222222 119.503703932 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1111111111 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.74074074074 5.70786347227 30% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154903374809 0.218282227539 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0410934571706 0.0743258471296 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063118108576 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0960327717882 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0734794430815 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 14.3799401198 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.63 12.5979740519 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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