SuperCorp recently moved its headquarters to Corporateville. The recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves that Corporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg, the home of SuperCorp's original headquarters. Moreover, Middlesburg is a predominately urban area and according to an employee survey, SuperCorp has determined that its workers prefer to live in an area that is not urban. Finally, Corporateville has lower taxes than Middlesburg, making it not only a safer place to work but also a cheaper one. Therefore, Supercorp clearly made the best decision.
The author of the argument stated that the movement of the headquarters of the SuperCrop company should be an optimized decision. The author believes in the decision because the new headquarters destination - Middlesburg recently attracted more homeowners and seemed to be preferred by the company workers who enjoy the non-urban area, as well as it has lower taxes. Ostensibly, moving headquarters to Middlesburg could be a beneficial suggestion, however, the author needs to examine several pieces of evidence about its possible flaws before drawing such a conclusion.
First, the author of this argument assumes that the recent increment of the homeowners in Corporateville indicates that it is a better area to build the headquarters of the company. However, the author needs to ask what is the final number of residents in Corporateville. While any newly emerged city can have a period of the surge of population, the stable final resident amount actually provides more information about the popularity of the city. The author needs to examine the final local population of Corporateville and compare with the population Middlesburg in order to reach a more prudent conclusion on which area might be the better place to live.
Furthermore, the author assumes that the movement from an urban area - Middlesburg to a non-urban area - Corporateville, will be supported by their workers in the company, since the SuperCorp company has determined the preference of its workers. However, no evidence has supported this statement. The decision-maker should run a survey with the workers in their company and in particular, he or she needs to find out the percentage of workers that enjoyed the non-urban area over the urban area, in order to make an appropriate decision of the movement of headquarters.
Finally, the author of this argument assumes that a region with lower taxes is a safer region to live in, however, this needs to be proved. While the taxes are lower, the government income decrease accordingly, which leads to a shrunk cost on the local security expenses. In that case, the lower taxes in the local area actually leads to a less secure environment for people who live there. Therefore the relationship between tax level and safety should be investigated by the decision maker before considering to move the headquarters of the SuperCorp company.
In a nutshell, there are many questions the decision-maker in the company needs to answer before using the plan in this argument. They need to look carefully at needed evidence of final residents amount of Corporateville, the percentage of workers that prefer the non-urban area, and especially the relationship between taxes payment and security level in Corporateville. The movement of headquarters that proposed in the argument could be potentially a good decision, however, the decision maker needs to take a nuanced look at needed evidence listed first.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 468 350
No. of Characters: 2406 1500
No. of Different Words: 186 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.651 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.141 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.984 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 176 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 136 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 68 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.529 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.14 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.824 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.377 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.595 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 183, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'headquarters'' or '(headquarters)'s'?
Suggestion: headquarters'; (headquarters)'s
...elieves in the decision because the new headquarters destination - Middlesburg recently attr...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 392, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... environment for people who live there. Therefore the relationship between tax level and ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 500, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[3]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'considering moving'.
Suggestion: considering moving
...vestigated by the decision maker before considering to move the headquarters of the SuperCorp compa...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, finally, first, furthermore, however, look, therefore, well, while, in particular, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 55.5748502994 142% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2466.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 468.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26923076923 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07991184738 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.431623931624 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 801.0 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.3833530808 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.058823529 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5294117647 23.324526521 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.82352941176 5.70786347227 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146502582666 0.218282227539 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0516191522269 0.0743258471296 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0471329238285 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0853894155633 0.128457276422 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047205695638 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.3550499002 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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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.