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.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument makes numerous questionable assumptions with respect to SuperCorp's decision to move its headquarters to Corporateville.
The very first assumption it makes is that an increase in homeowners directly corresponds to a superior place to live in. However, the surge of homeowners translates to an increase in the population and therefore an increase in the prices of property. This will not bode well, for the employees who will not look forward to having to shell out a larger amount of money for accommodation. Also, even if the prices are comparable to Middlesburg, a larger population will also result in traffic during rush hour, forcing the employees to spend a longer time commuting much to their chagrin. That Corporateville is safer than Middlesburg, is contingent upon several factors not ascertained in this argument. There is however, a very strong correlation between an increase in crime rate in urban areas which inadvertantly have a much higher population.
Furthermore, the arguments lay a strong basis for relocation based on an employee survey. Surveys are never the best way to get a holistic view of a situation as the people's responses are often limited by the options provided in the survey. For example, the survey could have merely asked if the employees prefer living in an urban or extremely rural area, in which case it might have skewed the results towards wanting to live in an urban area. Just because someone wants to live in an urban area does not mean they would be willing to be burdened with the process of relocating. SuperCorp should have ensured that the survey conducted, explicitly stated a clear inclination towards relocating its headquarters.
Finally, it is true that lower taxes would in a way translate to a higher salary, but does that mean living in Corporateville is cheaper? No, it does not. Being an urban area, could mean that the cost of living is much higher and the employees would end up saving lesser amount of money than they would if they lived in Middlesburg.
In order to make an informed decision, SuperCorp must carefully consider all possible scenarios before coming to a strong conclusion
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Essay evaluation report
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: 16 15
No. of Words: 359 350
No. of Characters: 1772 1500
No. of Different Words: 192 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.353 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.936 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.847 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.438 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.937 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.562 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, so, therefore, well, for example, it is true, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1825.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 359.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08356545961 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9242525038 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551532033426 0.468620217663 118% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.7148055251 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.0625 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4375 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5 5.70786347227 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15234060969 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0535019227856 0.0743258471296 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.054422760474 0.0701772020484 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0950169005349 0.128457276422 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0478642510224 0.0628817314937 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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