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.
The author makes the assertion that Fitch Realty is inferior to Adams Realty. The author makes this conclusion on the basis of some assumptions that are faulty in nature and does not provide germane evidence to bolster his claim.
Firstly, the author claims that Adams Realty is superior on the basis of numbers of employees they have. The author suggests that Adams has more real estate agents than Fitch, and that is the reason for their superiority. But numbers of employees can not be the parameter for any company’s efficacy. Fitch might have fewer employees, but it is possible that these employees are more efficient than Adam’s. The author also mentions that as the Adam’s many employees are part time workers they generate weaker output than Fitch’s employees. But the author fails to provide any evidence regarding how working many hours lead them to superiority. It is possible that the employees working at Fitch are more efficient than Adam’s and do the same work in less time than Fitch’s employees.
Secondly, the author provides statistics regarding the last year revenue of Adam’s and Filch’s and claim that Adam Realty is superior because their revenue was larger. At first glance, this logic might seem okay. But the author provides the statistics regarding their sales for only previous years. He does not say anything about other years. It is possible that Fitch Realty made smaller revenue only in the last year. In previous years or in any other year Fitch’s revenue was larger.
The author also claims that homes listed with Adams sell faster than Filtch. To support this claim the author states that ten years ago Fitch took more than four months to sell his house whereas Adams sold another of the author’s home in a month. Even if this is true, it does not qualify for his superiority claim. The author does not consider that the time gap is huge. He does not provide any evidence that ensures that there was no other reason for Fitch to take longer time to sell his house. It is possible that the year Fitch sold the author’s house, economy was rough and every realtor suffered the consequences. May be the house that the author listed to sell with Fitch was really overpriced, or poor in quality, or there was some difficulty with the author’s negotiation. And Adam did not have to face these problems.
In conclusion, the author made his argument on the basis of some weak assumptions which are filled with discrepancies and does not bolster his claim. If he wants to establish his claim he should make a thorough observation and takes every factor in consideration.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 484, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...t as the Adam's many employees are part time workers they generate weaker output tha...
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Line 4, column 136, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...aim the author states that ten years ago Fitch took more than four months to sel...
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Line 4, column 143, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... author states that ten years ago Fitch took more than four months to sell his h...
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Line 4, column 638, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (May) must be used with a third-person verb: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
... realtor suffered the consequences. May be the house that the author listed to sel...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'regarding', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'whereas', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.280834914611 0.25644967241 110% => OK
Verbs: 0.159392789374 0.15541462614 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0740037950664 0.0836205057962 88% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0379506641366 0.0520304965353 73% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0417457305503 0.0272364105082 153% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.104364326376 0.125424944231 83% => OK
Participles: 0.0170777988615 0.0416121511921 41% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.61127656663 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0208728652751 0.026700313972 78% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0986717267552 0.113004496875 87% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00759013282732 0.0255425247493 30% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.00948766603416 0.0127820249294 74% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2663.0 2731.13054187 98% => OK
No of words: 445.0 446.07635468 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.98426966292 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.32808988764 0.378187486979 87% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.224719101124 0.287650121315 78% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.159550561798 0.208842608468 76% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.105617977528 0.135150697306 78% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61127656663 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 207.018472906 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.426966292135 0.469332199767 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 46.6775154215 52.1807786196 89% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.039408867 120% => OK
Sentence length: 18.5416666667 23.2022227129 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.8268950841 57.7814097925 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.958333333 141.986410481 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5416666667 23.2022227129 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.541666666667 0.724660767414 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 41.013576779 51.9672348444 79% => OK
Elegance: 1.68253968254 1.8405768891 91% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.324373491867 0.441005458295 74% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.125165546394 0.135418324435 92% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0863307437119 0.0829849096947 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.516573634472 0.58762219726 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.184363768597 0.147661913831 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126223305245 0.193483328276 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0854712576743 0.0970749176394 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.358833819864 0.42659136922 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0362907969492 0.0774707102158 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222854025769 0.312017818177 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0580691553293 0.0698173142475 83% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.82512315271 145% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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