"A nationwide survey reveals that the two most-desired home features are a large family room and a large, well-appointed kitchen. A number of homes in our area built by our competitor Domus Construction have such features and have sold much faster and at significantly higher prices than the national average. To boost sales and profits, we should increase the size of the family rooms and kitchens in all the homes we build and should make state-of-the-art kitchens a standard feature. Moreover, our larger family rooms and kitchens can come at the expense of the dining room, since many of our recent buyers say they do not need a separate dining room for family meals."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The author of the argument purportedly highlights that according to a survey, majorities of buyers are interested in a large family room and a large kitchen, which are popular hallmarks of houses. However, the premises upon which he/she puts his/her claim are fallacious. For the support of which some critical, yet ignored question need to be addressed.
First, the author contends that their competitor has sold a number of houses with a large family room and a large kitchen faster and gain a hoard of money. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether whole people in the town are interested in these homes. One point that should be considered is that maybe a few people like to live in these houses. Indeed, the author does not mention to the extent buyers are willing to buy these home. As a matter of fact, there is the possibility that their competitor has built only a few number of houses with these features owing to the fact that the author does not show the exact number of houses constructed by this company. It is also important to say that perhaps the houses that this company has built have a better condition in the case of location and whole size of homes.
The author also asserts that in order to make a profit they should build their houses with these features like Dumas Construction. Although it might seem tenable at the face, it has some defects since you can always ask this question if building a number of houses with a large kitchen and a large family room is beneficial for the company. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that maybe their competitor is a specialist in this area of construction or perhaps just focus on these features. What if people prefer to buy these houses from Domus Company? Indeed, this situation might put their market in trouble after construction.
Finally, as set forth by the author in order to increase sale and profit they should use artwork in kitchens. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if artworks in the kitchen are parallel to people's taste. One point that should not go unnoticed is that perhaps people prefer not to have art in their kitchen or maybe prefer to make art based on their own willing. Moreover, making art in the kitchen might have serious expenses that will not provide an opportunity for the company to make a revenue.
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there is a number of question, having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 575, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'few numbers'.
Suggestion: few numbers
... that their competitor has built only a few number of houses with these features owing to ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 253, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'people'.
Suggestion: people
...artworks in the kitchen are parallel to peoples taste. One point that should not go unn...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, while, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 28.8173652695 163% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2208.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 469.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7078891258 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65364457471 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46068185603 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434968017058 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 688.5 705.55239521 98% => 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
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.1518469873 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.210526316 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6842105263 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94736842105 5.70786347227 87% => 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 : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.177496452164 0.218282227539 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0526704971417 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0527242553175 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0965802980339 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354966860472 0.0628817314937 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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