"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 of the argument claims that in order to sell home quickly at good price, one should prefer Adams Realty over Fitch Realty. However, the underlying assumptions that the author used are rife with flaws.
To begin with, author states that Adams Realty is better than Fitch Realty because Adams has more real estate agents, 40 in comparison to just 25 of Fitch, and also most of the Fitch's agents are part time workers. However, this fact cannot be taken as a face value to belittle Fitch Realty. Number of agent doesn't matter much in selling property, what matters most is their ability to sell and their networking skills. It is very much possible that the Fitch's agents have more connections in comparison to the Adam's agents as they are working part-time and thus are engaged in other profession as well where they might be meeting more people. Thus, they will be having relations with more people which is utterly indispensable to sell property.
Second, author used last year revenue to bolster his point. Although, figures do represent to some extent the soundness of a business but there in no mention that whether the sales of each increased or decreased in comparison to their own last year status. Chances are, Fitch's revenue might have increased and Adam's might have decreased. Just because Adam's revenue is more this year, no way reinforce the fact that he is better than Fitch. Also, just one year figure can't be used to prove someone superior than other.
Furthermore, author mentioned a case in which he listed a house with Fitch ten years ago and a similar case last year with Adam. He claims that since, his home was sold faster with Adam in comparison to Fitch, so, Adam is superior. This claim doesn't seems to be cogent. Situation ten years from now can be different from last year. Maybe, at that time property market was down or economy was slow or some recession was there. In fact, there can be numerous possibilities. So, simply comparing the time needed to sold properties last year and ten years ago is not a healthy point to prove that Adam is better than Fitch.
To sum up, the different claims put by the author are glutted with flaws. Different point put by the author need more evidence and details in order to prove the well-roundedness of his argument that Adam is better than Fitch.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 196, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
... and also most of the Fitchs agents are part time workers. However, this fact cannot be t...
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Line 3, column 308, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... belittle Fitch Realty. Number of agent doesnt matter much in selling property, what m...
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Line 5, column 468, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... than Fitch. Also, just one year figure cant be used to prove someone superior than ...
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Line 5, column 507, Rule ID: SUPERIOR_THAN[1]
Message: The adjective superior is normally used with 'to'.
Suggestion: to
... cant be used to prove someone superior than other. Furthermore, author mentioned...
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Line 7, column 244, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...Fitch, so, Adam is superior. This claim doesnt seems to be cogent. Situation ten years...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'in fact', 'to begin with', 'to sum up']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.277777777778 0.25644967241 108% => OK
Verbs: 0.16 0.15541462614 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0822222222222 0.0836205057962 98% => OK
Adverbs: 0.06 0.0520304965353 115% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0288888888889 0.0272364105082 106% => OK
Prepositions: 0.117777777778 0.125424944231 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0422222222222 0.0416121511921 101% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.33603699938 2.79052419416 84% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0377777777778 0.026700313972 141% => OK
Particles: 0.00222222222222 0.001811407834 123% => OK
Determiners: 0.0688888888889 0.113004496875 61% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0177777777778 0.0255425247493 70% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00888888888889 0.0127820249294 70% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2333.0 2731.13054187 85% => OK
No of words: 407.0 446.07635468 91% => OK
Chars per words: 5.73218673219 6.12365571057 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.324324324324 0.378187486979 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.191646191646 0.287650121315 67% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.113022113022 0.208842608468 54% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0835380835381 0.135150697306 62% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33603699938 2.79052419416 84% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 207.018472906 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.4914004914 0.469332199767 105% => OK
Word variations: 53.7662591982 52.1807786196 103% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.039408867 105% => OK
Sentence length: 19.380952381 23.2022227129 84% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.5101205299 57.7814097925 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.095238095 141.986410481 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.380952381 23.2022227129 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.619047619048 0.724660767414 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 3.58251231527 140% => OK
Readability: 38.5455715456 51.9672348444 74% => OK
Elegance: 1.75892857143 1.8405768891 96% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306220191086 0.441005458295 69% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.099321923412 0.135418324435 73% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0834858013489 0.0829849096947 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.490779328503 0.58762219726 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.175331965619 0.147661913831 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100608207132 0.193483328276 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0990248270619 0.0970749176394 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.288827185216 0.42659136922 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0316712187066 0.0774707102158 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188113858721 0.312017818177 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0718410707561 0.0698173142475 103% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.33743842365 120% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.87684729064 44% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.82512315271 166% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 6.46551724138 124% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 5.36822660099 19% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.82389162562 212% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3 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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