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
In the letter written by a home owner to a friend the homeowner concludes that to sell your home quickly and at a good price you should employ the services of Adams realty relying on the evidence that Adams realty has more real estate agents compared Fitch realty, made an average sale of about $24,000 revenue more that Fitch realty last year and about 10 years ago the home owner listed his property on Fitch realty and it took a while to sell in contrast to Adams realty. However, this argument is based on some unwarranted assumption and if not justified can weaken the argument. Hence before the argument can be evaluated, we need to look at three ways the argument depends on this assumptions and its implication if proven unwarranted.
Firstly, to begin with why is the author relying on the evidence that 20years ago after listing a property on Adams realty it sold in a month compared to Fitch realty that took 4 months to sell thereby not putting in account that time changes a lot of things and Fitch realty could currently be the one selling property in less than month on like 20 years and their average revenue could have increased significantly compared to last year than Adams Realty. so if this scenario is proven true it shows the author argument is considerably flawed.
Secondly, the author relying on the evidence that workforce at Adams realty is more that fitch realty makes it seems that the higher the number of sales agents the increase in sales of property if listed with them but this depends on individual agents sales expertise to close a sale, Hence if this scenario is proven true then the conclusion drawn is considerably weakened .
Furthermore, if the marketing strategy of the both realty are different and may be fitch strategy works in a way that it brings in more home buyers than Adams realty then the sales of fitch realty would increased in contrast to what the author concluded and if proven true it weakens the argument.
In conclusion as it stands this argument is considerably flawed as it relies on some unwarranted assumption thereby rendering the conclusion not convincing hence except the author can do a systemic survey of the both realties past and current strategies in selling property as this can better evaluate the credibility of conclusion drawn that employing the services of Adams realty is best to get a property sold quickly at a good price.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 11 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 417 350
No. of Characters: 1966 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.519 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.715 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.495 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 52.125 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 30.023 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.875 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.475 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.748 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.171 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 583, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... not justified can weaken the argument. Hence before the argument can be evaluated, w...
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Line 1, column 681, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...k at three ways the argument depends on this assumptions and its implication if prov...
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Line 3, column 459, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: So
...ompared to last year than Adams Realty. so if this scenario is proven true it show...
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Line 3, column 459, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[3]
Message: “so if” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ompared to last year than Adams Realty. so if this scenario is proven true it shows t...
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Line 5, column 374, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...onclusion drawn is considerably weakened . Furthermore, if the marketing strate...
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Line 7, column 204, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'increase'
Suggestion: increase
...ty then the sales of fitch realty would increased in contrast to what the author conclude...
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Line 9, column 156, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... rendering the conclusion not convincing hence except the author can do a systemi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, in conclusion, in contrast, in contrast to, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1998.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 417.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79136690647 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53824932679 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.429256594724 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 621.0 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 19.7664670659 40% => 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: 52.0 22.8473053892 228% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 150.890222927 57.8364921388 261% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 249.75 119.503703932 209% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 52.125 23.324526521 223% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 19.625 5.70786347227 344% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29019755068 0.218282227539 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125182938878 0.0743258471296 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119720716186 0.0701772020484 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18287001354 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0668744801248 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 27.2 14.3799401198 189% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 27.16 48.3550499002 56% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 22.4 12.197005988 184% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.39 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 26.0 12.3882235529 210% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 22.8 11.1389221557 205% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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