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 argument presented is rife with assumptions that make it difficult to state if the decision to move SuperCorp headquarters to Corporateville is a wise one let alone the best.
Firstly, the argument assumes that since there has been a surge in the number of homeowners in Corprateville, therefore it is a superior place to live than Middlesborough. The argument fails to examine any other cause for the increase in homeownership. For exmaple houses might be cheaper in Corporateville than Middlesburg and not necessarily better, or it just may be that more people are moving to Middlesborough because of more job opportunities. A deeper analysis of the reasons for the increase in homeownership is most certainly required.
Secondly, the argument relies on an employee survey that has reached the conclusion that its employees would prefer to live in area that is not urban. We however, are not sure whether the sample that has taken the survey is reperesentative of the whole population of SuperCorp employees. From the argument we only know that Middlesburg is predomininantly urban and nothing about Corporateville has been mentioned regarding its urban or non-urban status. We do not even know that if not urban, what kind of an area the workers of SuperCorp would like to live in. For all intents and purposes the area can turn out to be contrary to the workers expectations.
Thirdly and lastly, the argument assumes that since the taxes in Corporateville are lower than Middlesburg, therefore it is also a safer place to work. The argument provides no evidence as to why it considers a place that has lower taxes to be a safer working environment, although granted that it may be cheaper.
All of these logical inconsistencies make it difficult for the company to make a strong case in support of moving the company headquarters to Corporateville.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK. This survey is only about workers where to live, not about where to work.
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 13 15
No. of Words: 308 350
No. of Characters: 1524 1500
No. of Different Words: 153 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.189 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.948 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.167 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.692 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.454 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.359 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.643 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.121 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 498, Rule ID: KIND_OF_A[1]
Message: Don't include 'an' after a classification term. Use simply 'kind of'.
Suggestion: kind of
...o not even know that if not urban, what kind of an area the workers of SuperCorp would lik...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, as to, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1554.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 308.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04545454545 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.25430938914 2.78398813304 117% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.50974025974 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.2279138917 57.8364921388 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.538461538 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6923076923 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.38461538462 5.70786347227 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222328272861 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.072196026883 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0603839689475 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112288806229 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0340189580913 0.0628817314937 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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