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 current headquarters. Moreover, Middleburg 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 states that SuperCorp choice to move from Middlesburg to Corporateville is wise because the latter has experienced a surge in the number of homeowners, is less urban and thus appealing to employees, and has lower taxes. As stated, the argument is based on a number of assumptions that render it rather weak. The author is advised to makes some key clarifications in order to make the argument more compelling.
The first assumption states that if an employee survey says that employees generally prefer living in urban areas, then all the employees living in Middlesburg want to move to a less urban area. However, it is unclear how that question was phrased. While it is true that the employees may prefer to live in an urban area, they may not actually want to move to one at the moment, losing thier current homes and forcing their children to change schools. In other words, a reliable survey would be a survey would be very specific in its questions, especially when dealing with such a life changing topic.
In fact, the argument seems to assumet that the employees are moving with the company, are they? Or is the company laying off some of its employees to go to a more affordable area? In that case, the decision was clearly not the best one for the employees of the company. As for the company itself, the cost of training new employees and moving indispensible ones should be put into account when evaluating the decision. The argument thus needs to expand further on what it is doing with its current employees, how costly the move is in short run, and whether that would pay off in the long run.
The fact that overall taxes are lower does not necessarily mean that the area is cheaper, especially not for employees. For instance, it is unclear whether those taxes are business taxes, income taxes, or sales taxes. While lower income taxes may be cheaper for businesses, it does not necessarily make life much cheaper for employees. Similarly, low income taxes when juxtaposed with a high-end area with high inflation doesn't necessarily entail that life expenses will be cheaper. To improve the argument, the information provided on taxes should be clarified further and combined with some additional economic indicators that clearly demonstrate whether Corporateville is actually cheaper.
Overall, the argument makes some rather questionable assumptions about the employees and the economic wellbeing of the Corporateville. Those assumptions should be strengthened with better data and more reliable premises.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'make'.
Suggestion: make
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'similarly', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'as for', 'for instance', 'in fact', 'in short', 'in other words', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.215982721382 0.25644967241 84% => OK
Verbs: 0.172786177106 0.15541462614 111% => OK
Adjectives: 0.10151187905 0.0836205057962 121% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0583153347732 0.0520304965353 112% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0280777537797 0.0272364105082 103% => OK
Prepositions: 0.116630669546 0.125424944231 93% => OK
Participles: 0.0496760259179 0.0416121511921 119% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.76809442545 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0345572354212 0.026700313972 129% => OK
Particles: 0.00431965442765 0.001811407834 238% => OK
Determiners: 0.110151187905 0.113004496875 97% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0215982721382 0.0255425247493 85% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0172786177106 0.0127820249294 135% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2550.0 2731.13054187 93% => OK
No of words: 421.0 446.07635468 94% => OK
Chars per words: 6.05700712589 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.57801047555 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.361045130641 0.378187486979 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.266033254157 0.287650121315 92% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.204275534442 0.208842608468 98% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.125890736342 0.135150697306 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76809442545 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 207.018472906 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477434679335 0.469332199767 102% => OK
Word variations: 52.35050805 52.1807786196 100% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 22.1578947368 23.2022227129 95% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.9869675699 57.7814097925 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.210526316 141.986410481 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1578947368 23.2022227129 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.894736842105 0.724660767414 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 48.7612201525 51.9672348444 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.475 1.8405768891 80% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.399793649679 0.441005458295 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.148590239552 0.135418324435 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0831179028016 0.0829849096947 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.588577195463 0.58762219726 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.143396867898 0.147661913831 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.162352048623 0.193483328276 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110093099873 0.0970749176394 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.322586052867 0.42659136922 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0889202537995 0.0774707102158 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267680907603 0.312017818177 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107706993082 0.0698173142475 154% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.33743842365 36% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.87684729064 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 5.36822660099 186% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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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