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 letter the homeowner advices to his or her friend to use Adams Realty rather than Fitch Realty, because in his opinion, this is a more reliable firm for those who are planning to sell their houses faster. The holder provides logical, on the first glance, arguments to use this agency. However, investing the provided assumptions closely, one can find drastic controversies in the owner’s logic.
As the paramount reason to rely on Adams Reality the householder mentions the fact about the number of agents working for both firms: 40 over 25. Following this way, this person assumes that the more people work at the firm, the faster it sells a house. This assumption is lack of logic, because there is no correlation between these two characteristics of firms. Thus, Fitch Realty having only 25 agents in its staff can overbeats Adams’ in terms of the number of sales, because these workers are more productive, hard-working and hunger for work.
The other aspect which can be doubt is the average revenue. The lower number does not show that Fitch firm sold fewer houses, maybe they could sell more houses which cost cheaper. For example, Adams Reality sold only 2 houses, and the average was $168,000, but Fitch firm was more succeeded by selling 10 houses. Moreover, since Adams’ has more agents, this firm can require more money for their business.
There is one more point to look closely is the fact that the householder used both firms to sell houses. The author mentions that he used Fitch to sell his own house 10 years ago, and it took 4 months to sell, on the other hand, lately Adams firms has done it faster, when he decided to sell another house. This point is irrelevant, because 10 years ago there might have been fewer people wishing to buy a new house, maybe the first house was situated in a worse location than the other.
Thus, the advice of the householder is not based on any logical arguments, because all they are lack of specific information, and compare different situations at different time periods.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 243, Rule ID: ON_FIRST_GLANCE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'at'?
Suggestion: at
...es faster. The holder provides logical, on the first glance, arguments to use this...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, thus, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1709.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 353.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84135977337 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43818028329 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555240793201 0.468620217663 118% => OK
syllable_count: 520.2 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.5857677595 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.933333333 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5333333333 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.73333333333 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174345506305 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0592267009526 0.0743258471296 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0593431935687 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0943189151983 0.128457276422 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0581761815128 0.0628817314937 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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