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 used his personal experience and some vague financial data of the Adams Realty and Fitch Realty, to conclude which is the better agency for selling the house quickly. It is very likely that the author argument is biased from his own personal experience and is not backed by the data. It is probable that Adam realty is better than Fitch Realty, but the data presented by the author lack insights and make some dubious assumptions to conclude anything. This claim can easily be challenged and given the validity of data; it is not sufficient to give any recommendation.
First, there is no correlation between the number of real estate agent that firm employs and its superiority in the market. Yes, it is fact that Adams has 40 real estate agent and fitch has 25. It is possible that fitch use other means to market the listing house. That fitch realty spent more on other means of marketing like social media, local cable or maintain their own website. So, they need few agents than Adams, if Adams is not marketing his listing in non-traditional platform. This is the better approach as you can target a particular audience as well as it will be faster to spread the information to customers. It will be helpful to see the overall budget they have on different types of marketing environment and the overall strength of the firm.
Author uses their last year financials record to conclude that Adam is better than Fitch because dam revenue is more than twice last year and average home value sale is relatively higher by $22,000. These statement validities can be challenged by two major assumptions that author did not mention in the letter. First one is that one-year revenue fluctuates and doesn't represent the company financials situations. The author should have used like last 3-5-year average to remove or reduce any one-time unusual activity that can impact the financials of the company. 5-year average will shows the stable and average revenuer that we expect from the firm. It was state that average value of home sales by Adam is 168,000 which is more than Fitch 144,000. These two numbers are not comparable, it is like comparing apples to oranges. We should find answer the question that the characteristics of the home sales by these firms are same which will back the author claim. It can be the case that Adams generally take high worth house compared to fitch which will make these two number of no use and will undermine the author claims.
Lastly, Author used his own personal experience to strengthen his claim. Author compare his past experience which is 10 year ago with fitch to his last year experience with Adams. This claim is very thin and can easily be challenged. Firstly, we are not aware of the country or town financial situation ten year ago or one year ago. Market conditions have serious impact on both the price of the house and the time it takes to sell it. We do not know that if ten years ago the market was in recession or the last year town’s financials condition was at peak. Secondly the locality and the condition of house has big impact on its time to take sell. We are not aware of both of the house conditions; it is possible that last year sold house, is newly constructed property. Both of the reason makes the author’s personal experience vague and less reliable to conclude anything.
The author tried to used his own personal experience and recent company financials records to present his claim. As discsussed above, claim lack serius insights and cover any of his argument superficialy. The argument use his own experience to judge the firms superiorty, it should be average of different customers feedback over some certain period. Given numbeous flaws in authors argument, it is evident that validity of the case is very thin.
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- 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 67
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 33 15
No. of Words: 658 350
No. of Characters: 3086 1500
No. of Different Words: 271 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.065 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.69 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.434 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 201 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 137 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.939 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.559 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.273 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.275 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.275 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 180, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'fitch' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'fitches'.
Suggestion: fitches
...that Adams has 40 real estate agent and fitch has 25. It is possible that fitch use o...
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Line 3, column 360, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...is that one-year revenue fluctuates and doesnt represent the company financials situat...
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Line 3, column 584, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'show'
Suggestion: show
...als of the company. 5-year average will shows the stable and average revenuer that we...
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Line 4, column 92, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experience'.
Suggestion: experience
...trengthen his claim. Author compare his past experience which is 10 year ago with fitch to his ...
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Line 5, column 306, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'customers'' or 'customer's'?
Suggestion: customers'; customer's
...orty, it should be average of different customers feedback over some certain period. Give...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.6327345309 199% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 11.1786427146 215% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 28.8173652695 215% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3154.0 2260.96107784 139% => OK
No of words: 657.0 441.139720559 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80060882801 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06280665599 4.56307096286 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52015912559 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 278.0 204.123752495 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.423135464231 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 993.6 705.55239521 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 23.0 4.96107784431 464% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 19.7664670659 167% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.0070584502 57.8364921388 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.5757575758 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9090909091 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.33333333333 5.70786347227 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156627568657 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0462430134115 0.0743258471296 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0726163569489 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0963331762135 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0777690612677 0.0628817314937 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 98.500998004 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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