The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend.
"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."
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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
According to homeowner's letter, Adam realty is superior real estate firm in the town. The evidences that support this assumption are based on the size of the firm from human resources aspect, their average revenue of last year, and their ability to sell a house really quickly and at a good price. This conclusion doesn't seem true because of the following reasons.
First of all, the author claim that because the Adams Reality have more real state agents then it is more superior. The fact is number of real state agents do not mean everything in matter of being superior. For example there are many successful real state firm in the world with few numbers of agents also there are so many unsuccessful real state firm with more than 100 employees.
Secondly, author believed that Adam Realty could sell your house in a short period but he based that assertion on his/her own experience. There is no way to extent that assumption and make that a rule. For example maybe that particular house has an amazing situation and for that reason it sold really quickly.
Third of all, author support his/her idea by using the fact about both of these realty's revenues but he/she did not consider this idea that perhaps Adam Realty has more revenue only because of having more selling cases than rental cases therefore, its revenue is higher than Fitch Realty.
We should know that the argument, as it stands now, is flawed and we need more evidence to make an accurate conclusion about this matter. So the need of having more evidence to support this arguments would be crucial.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 277 350
No. of Characters: 1272 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.08 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.592 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.194 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 81 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 53 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 31 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 19 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.083 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.361 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.657 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 175, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'resources'' or 'resource's'?
Suggestion: resources'; resource's
...ased on the size of the firm from human resources aspect, their average revenue of last y...
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Line 1, column 315, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ly and at a good price. This conclusion doesnt seem true because of the following reas...
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Line 3, column 128, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ts then it is more superior. The fact is number of real state agents do not mean ...
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Line 3, column 259, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'firms'?
Suggestion: firms
...le there are many successful real state firm in the world with few numbers of agents...
^^^^
Line 3, column 351, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'firms'?
Suggestion: firms
...ere are so many unsuccessful real state firm with more than 100 employees. Second...
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Line 9, column 186, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...need of having more evidence to support this arguments would be crucial. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, for example, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 55.5748502994 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1322.0 2260.96107784 58% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 273.0 441.139720559 62% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84249084249 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.25038441855 2.78398813304 81% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.553113553114 0.468620217663 118% => OK
syllable_count: 407.7 705.55239521 58% => syllable counts are too short.
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
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => 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: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 63.9079198709 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.166666667 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.75 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 5.70786347227 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.232025401909 0.218282227539 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0946689848199 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.14491580296 0.0701772020484 206% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11693555143 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.079967275108 0.0628817314937 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 98.500998004 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => 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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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.