1. 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 suggests that for quick and high price sale of houses, Adams Realty is better than the Fitch Realty. The writer lists some clues for his standpoint all of which are skeptical and require further explanation to be considered as a valid suggestion.
The first problem is with the reason which is based on the comparison of numbers of branches of each firm and their working hours. The assumed situation by the writer is the higher number of real estate agents and full-time working hours are the indicator of priority of Adams Realty over Fitch Realty. However, the missing part of this assumption is the exact volume of presented services by both Realties and their covered service area. In fact, a big agent can give service for bigger neighborhood area rather than the small one. Therefore, there is a possibility that the agents of the Fitch Realty are bigger than Adams Realty; thus, with their few numbers the give the same service that Adams Realty does. About clue about the part-time occupation by Fitch Realty is shaky since there is no cogent evidence about the number of employees. Maybe the number of employees in Fitch firm is twice the Adams firm; therefore, the same amount of affair is done by the larger working force in the fewer hours. In general, the number of agents and the part-time working period cannot be the logical evidence for the priority of Adams Realty over Fitch Realty.
The second issue is about the annual income of the two firms in which the solo indicator is the average price of sold home by two realities. Indeed, the numerical data their average is not the exact representer of series of numbers. For instance, in this clue the price of $168,000 could be the average of one house with the value of $169,000 and one house with the value of $1,000; consequently, the whole income will be $169,000. On the other hand, there is the possibility that Fitch Realty sold the two house two with a value of $144,000. In this scenario, the total annual income will be $288,000. This example explicitly illustrates, these average values cannot be the exact benchmark of annual revenue which the author assumed the Adams Realty earns more the Fitch. Furthermore, the only income source for the realty agents is not selling the house, they also sell other real estates or even they rent them, all of which can be listed as the income sources which are underestimated by the author.
The third assumption that the Adams Realty sells the listed homes faster with the high prices, solely by the consideration of two irrelevant sell experiences by these two firms at two data with a duration of 10 years is not a logical and valid one. The first issue is about the sold houses which are not identical; there is the possibility that the home sold by Adams Realty possesses a better condition such as the modern architecture, more facilities, or better neighborhood. Consequently, the sold home by Adams Realty is sold faster than the house is sold the Fitch firm. The second problem, the comparison of the two varied periods of times which there is ten years difference between them. The listed house in the Fitch Realty is related to ten years ago while in the Adams Realty, the home is listed currently, during these ten years there are lots of alterations which make two situations to not be identical. For example, there is feasibility that in the past ten years the demands for the homes has been increased while there is not sufficient supply for this demand; thus, the sold house by Adams Realty has the higher price.
The wrap it up, all the aforementioned assumption with their failure lucidly depict the faultiness of this conclusion.
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Comments
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: 24 15
No. of Words: 637 350
No. of Characters: 2975 1500
No. of Different Words: 237 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.024 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.67 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.359 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 190 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.542 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.991 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.321 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.512 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... be considered as a valid suggestion. The first problem is with the reason which ...
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Line 2, column 132, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s of each firm and their working hours. The assumed situation by the writer is the ...
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Line 3, column 370, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...f 69,000 and one house with the value of ,000; consequently, the whole income will...
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Line 5, column 119, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...pict the faultiness of this conclusion.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, third, thus, while, for example, for instance, in fact, in general, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.6327345309 204% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 55.5748502994 144% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3034.0 2260.96107784 134% => OK
No of words: 637.0 441.139720559 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76295133438 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02382911018 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44317127095 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.390894819466 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 947.7 705.55239521 134% => 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: 22.0 8.76447105788 251% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8230026918 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.416666667 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5416666667 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.29166666667 5.70786347227 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268860193881 0.218282227539 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0922070512096 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0779982569332 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138386800209 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0854601249049 0.0628817314937 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 98.500998004 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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