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 concludes that Adams Realty is clearly superior as compared to Fitch Realty. The author uses the statistical data of the number of real estate agent working for both the firms and revenue of two firms as evidence. However, author makes several assumptions that need to be addressed before determining the superiority of the two Realty.
Firstly, the author assumes that Fitch Realty is better and superior to Adams realty on the basis that Adams Realty has more estate agents than Fitch agents and most of the Fitch agents work part time. However, the author does not provide any evidence of the quality of the service these agents give to the customers. It is not necessary that the success of firm is directly proportional to the number of agents working. For one, it might be that the agents of Fitch Realty are more effective than Adams Realty and sell more houses individually than the agents in Adams Realty.
Furthermore, the author assumes that Adams revenue last year was more than the Fitch's. But the author overshadows the possibility that there can be some abberations in the data last year due to some reasons like the locations of the houses sold and otherwise Fitch's annual revenue is more than that of Adams. Author even does not mention about the areas in which these houses were sold. It may be the case that Adams sold properties in the larger cities and Fitch sold the houses in the smaller cities and hence revenue of Adams is more than that of Fitch as the costs and buying capacity is more in the larger cities, but it does not mean that Adams realty is more superior than Fitch.
Finally, author shares his experience of selling houses with Fitch and Adams. He claimed that selling his house 10 years ago with Fitch Realty took more time than selling his house one year ago with Adams. But author does not mention about the economic conditions of time when he sold both the houses. It is possible that 10 years ago due to slower economic conditions there were no people ready to buy houses, so authors house took time to sell off. Also, the author does not mention the condition of the two houses. It might be that the house which the author sold with Fitch was not in a very good condition as compared to the house which is sold with Adams.
To sum up, author makes many assumptions to conclude that Adams Realty is more effective than Fitch. But we do not have enough information and evidences to support the claim. Hence author must consider all the factors before coming to any conclusion.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 448 350
No. of Characters: 2049 1500
No. of Different Words: 168 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.601 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.574 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.18 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 42 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.579 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.844 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.632 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.376 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.582 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.146 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 192, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...gents and most of the Fitch agents work part time. However, the author does not provide a...
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Line 5, column 662, Rule ID: SUPERIOR_THAN[2]
Message: The adjective more is normally used with to and does not need 'more' (so called implicit comparative). Probably you need to write: 'superior to'.
Suggestion: superior to
...t it does not mean that Adams realty is more superior than Fitch. Finally, author shares his ex...
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Line 9, column 176, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ion and evidences to support the claim. Hence author must consider all the factors be...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, may, so, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2095.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 448.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67633928571 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.22991741741 2.78398813304 80% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.381696428571 0.468620217663 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 657.0 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.2860148727 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.75 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.15 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.463777364328 0.218282227539 212% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.175515652872 0.0743258471296 236% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.157342063088 0.0701772020484 224% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.341135822122 0.128457276422 266% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.271219972953 0.0628817314937 431% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.16 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.37 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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