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 the argument, the author recommends that Adams Realty should be preferred for selling real estates at a good price and short time. The author comes to this conclusion based on several pieces of evidence such as customer review, yearly sales ,employee numbers which,if correct,could indicate that the argument holds water. However, as it stands now the suggestion from the author relies on three unwarranted assumptions that diminish the credibility of the recommendation./ With a series of unwarranted assumption, however, the argument fails to be entirely convincing as it stands
To embark, the author suggests that number of employees is greater in Adams Realty which is a reason Adams’ is superior to Fitch. However, this evidence relies on the assumption that the more people working in a real estate firm, the better its service is. Although it is entirely possible, the author offers no evidence to substantiate the crucial assumption. It is highly likely that Adams need to hire more estate agents because Adams’ estate agents’ efficiency is lower than Fitch’s, or the Fitch’s employees are more professional than Adams’s. If either of the scenarios turns out to be true, the arguer’s reasoning will be disproved.
Another weakness in the argument is the arguer assumes that Adams and Fitch sell the same kind of house so that their revenue is comparable. Nevertheless, there is no guarantee that it is necessarily the case, and the arguer does not supply any evidence to confirm the assumption. It is quite possible that Adams mainly sells large houses while Fitch sells small house mostly, so Fitch earn less money by selling each house; in this case, the total revenue cannot stand for ability of selling house of each company. If the possibilities is true, the arguer’s assumption will be weakened.
One more spurious claim is / Even if the evidence turns out to support the foregoing assumptions, the author just simply assumes that there are no changes in the past ten years so that the time two companies used to sell house is comparable, and neither any conclusive scientific evidence nor any anecdotal one is provided to affirm the assumption. It is of equal probability that Adams uses less time to sell the house last years because the economic condition is better last year than ten years ago. An appropriate example is not far to seek. With the development of society, people earn more money now than ten years ago and they are more willing to spend more money to buy house in order to lead a better live; consequently, it is much easier to sell house now . Without accounting for and ruling out these and other alternative explanation, the author cannot bolster the conclusion.
To sum up, there are many doubtful assumptions and unsound evidence that need to be addressed. In order to draw a better conclusion, the author should cite some more persuasive evidence and take every possible consideration into account.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 490 350
No. of Characters: 2396 1500
No. of Different Words: 231 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.705 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.89 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.601 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.002 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.611 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.324 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.556 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.051 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
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Line 1, column 268, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , if
...ew, yearly sales ,employee numbers which,if correct,could indicate that the argumen...
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Line 1, column 279, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , could
...sales ,employee numbers which,if correct,could indicate that the argument holds water....
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Line 7, column 765, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...tly, it is much easier to sell house now . Without accounting for and ruling out t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, however, if, nevertheless, so, while, kind of, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2482.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 488.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08606557377 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77804805941 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495901639344 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 775.8 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.9840929787 57.8364921388 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.888888889 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1111111111 23.324526521 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38888888889 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189933060175 0.218282227539 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0575425662033 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.082572399695 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110002050153 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112240593607 0.0628817314937 178% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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