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 claimed that Adam Realty is a better agency than Fitch Realty because it has more real estate agents, has more revenue last year, and sells the homeowner's property faster. Thus, listing home with Adam will be a better choice. However, the assumptions in the letters are not sufficiently supported.
First of all, the author makes the assumption that having more real estate agents means the real estate company is better. Thus, Adam is better because it has more real estate agents than Fitch. However, having more agents does not necessarily a company is better. Adam has more agents could be because it is an older company than Fitch, but the quality of the agents could be worse than Fitch. For example, the customer services of Adam could be inferior. In this case, Fitch would be a better company than Adam.
Secondly, the assumption that Adam’s revenue was better last year means Adam is better than Fitch is not effective. Just because the revenue of last year was higher does not mean the revenue is always higher. The revenue of Fitch might be better than Adam any other year, besides last year. Then, the argument that Adam can sell with a better price will be wrong.
Moreover, the homeowner makes the assumption that because Adam had sold his home faster than Fitch means that Adam is will be able to sell other houses faster than Fitch. However, the house that he/she asked the homeowner could be a better house than the one he/she asked fitch sold. Thus, it would be easier and faster for Adam to sell the house than Fitch. In this situation, Adam would not be able to sell every hose faster than Fitch.
The assumptions that the author makes are not sufficiently supported. As a result, the argument is not significantly persuasive.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not exactly.
argument 3 -- not exactly.
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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: 308 350
No. of Characters: 1411 1500
No. of Different Words: 109 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.189 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.581 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.142 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 90 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 48 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 25 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 17 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.211 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.614 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.405 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.617 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.182 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 156, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'homeowners'' or 'homeowner's'?
Suggestion: homeowners'; homeowner's
...s more revenue last year, and sells the homeowners property faster. Thus, listing home wit...
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Line 5, column 130, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...gument is not significantly persuasive.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for example, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 14.0 55.5748502994 25% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1464.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 306.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78431372549 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.2514513714 2.78398813304 81% => OK
Unique words: 114.0 204.123752495 56% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.372549019608 0.468620217663 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 451.8 705.55239521 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.6508569962 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.0526315789 119.503703932 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1052631579 23.324526521 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.10526315789 5.70786347227 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => 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: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252957523089 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101592640684 0.0743258471296 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0834739573786 0.0701772020484 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153334225596 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0964442326521 0.0628817314937 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.1 14.3799401198 63% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.3550499002 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.197005988 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.65 8.32208582834 80% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 98.500998004 44% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.