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 concluded that for faster sale of a house with the high price it is better to use the Adams Realty instead of the Fitch Realty, which from my perspective the assumed premises are faulty and require further consideration for there verification. The assumption of the more numbers of the branch agency, or amount of income from the price of selling, furthermore, the duration of provided services for different houses in the two varied periods are sufficient rearing reasons for this conclusion.
First of all, the writer considers the number of existed branches for each estate firms and according to this consideration, since the Adams Realty possesses more branches in comparison of the Fitch Realty, he assumed that the Adams is superior the Fitch. This assumption flows since first of all, the term of superior is a vague term and needs lucid explanation. Does it mean the Adams gains more than Fitch? Or the presented services by Adams more satisfied the consumers? Besides, how it is possible to make a correlation among the number of branches with the order of priority? One of the missing hypothesis which makes this comparison to be shaky is the underestimation of covered service realm by each branch. There is a possibility that each branch of Fitch Firm is as huge as to cover a big area which merely two branches from the Adams firm can cover it. In this case, the presented services by 25 agents of Fitch is equal to 50 agents of Adams which is more than existed 40 agents. Therefore, by ignorance of the coverage service area, the consideration of the branches number is not a decent indicator of the Adams priority.
Secondly, the premises that Adams earns more revenue than the Fitch solely because of its sell price of the house is also skeptical. In fact, this presumption is based on one factor of selling the abode; however, these firms also have other areas of activity such as renting the houses. There is a possibility that the amount of income from the renting services will be higher the selling the houses. Furthermore, as long as there is no concrete data about the number of sold houses by these two firms, the conclusion that Adams earns twice the Fitch is not cogent one. Maybe the Fitch Realty have been sold the 100 houses during a year while Adams Realty has only covered one-third of this amount. In this scenario, the highest of 24000$ for each sold house by Adams Realty will not be sufficient to fulfill the difference of 66 unsold houses.
Finally, the comparison of the sell experiences of two different cases at two varied regions and time is not a fair way. Maybe the sold house by the Adams which took fewer times in comparison of the sold house by Fitch Realty possesses the better condition and neighborhood and located in the better region. Or It is feasible that there will be fluctuation in the supply and demand source of the houses during the last ten years and by the increment of the demands in nowadays the sold house by Adams is sold sooner. In addition, as long as there is not a specified number about the waiting period for Adams Realty's service, the result that Adams sells faster than the Fitch is incredible. Maybe the difference between the waiting duration of two services were only a few days which could be overlooked. Thus, the comparison of the two different services at various period are not concrete definer of the fastness.
The argument could be strengthened if it could consider the above-mentioned assumptions about the coverage of service area, the exact annual income of two firms; in addition, the duration of the identical services are considered for the comparison.
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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: 631 350
No. of Characters: 2969 1500
No. of Different Words: 243 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.012 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.705 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.544 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 196 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.292 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.185 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.503 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 732, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$24000'.
Suggestion: $24000
...mount. In this scenario, the highest of 24000$ for each sold house by Adams Realty wi...
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Line 3, column 738, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... In this scenario, the highest of 24000$ for each sold house by Adams Realty will...
^^
Line 4, column 466, Rule ID: IN_NOWADAYS[1]
Message: nowadays is used without 'in'. Use simply: 'nowadays'.
Suggestion: nowadays
...ars and by the increment of the demands in nowadays the sold house by Adams is sold sooner....
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thus, while, as to, in addition, in fact, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 89.0 55.5748502994 160% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3029.0 2260.96107784 134% => OK
No of words: 631.0 441.139720559 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80031695721 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01195704033 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62158775191 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 204.123752495 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.397781299525 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 959.4 705.55239521 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 16.0 8.76447105788 183% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2126264731 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.208333333 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2916666667 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.375 5.70786347227 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.263859207023 0.218282227539 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0890311125599 0.0743258471296 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.075281555328 0.0701772020484 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1439063635 0.128457276422 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0780453630235 0.0628817314937 124% => 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: 10.86 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 98.500998004 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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