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 from the homeowner, it is stated that if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Reality. The opponents have come to this conclusion based on the facts that Adams Reality has more revenue as well as it has more number of Real estate agents. He also stated that landowner sold his house ten years ago with Fitch, which took four months as compared to Adams that took only one month. However, before this recommendation can be fully properly evaluated, three questions must be answered.
Firstly, The author states in the letter that his friend should sell his house with Adams because the revenue is higher as compared to Fitch as well as Adams has 40 Real Estate agents. But is it fair to conclude that the same 40 Real Estate agents will work efficiently in every location?. The home that Landowner sold might have been situated in some posh locality and the Adams generated more revenue because of this. But is this same for every location? Maybe as per the locations changes, rates of property changes, salary of real estate agents changes or other factors like parking area in posh locality would have been added in the revenue. The difference in the revenues of $24000 might be due to the level of customers the companies are dealing with. Maybe, the Adams deals with elite customers and Fitch deals with every category of Customers. Due to this reasons, Fitch might have less numbers of agents and revenue. If either of the above Scenerios has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, The landowner sold his home with Adams ten years ago in four months and he sold another one with Fitch last year in one month. In the time difference of nine years ,the land rates must have been changed, or some extra companies must have been come in the market, or some more investors invested in the last nine years. The author is not able to consider these extra factors in evaluating the argument and prematurely assumes that Fitch will have to take four months of time period. If the above is true, then the argument does not hold water.
Finally, The Fitch company takes more time i.e. four months. The reasons for more time taken by Fitch may be because of more investigation of property documents, checking out the property physically by real Estate agents and in four months, Fitch do proper scrutinization of its property to avoid any illegal documents by the seller. Maybe, Fitch is taking four Months because it provides fully furnished property to their customers and Adams do not provide these services. Maybe because of this, Adams is taking Four months and Fitch is taking one month. If the above consideration is true, then the customer should sell his property with Fitch for having more security and trust. This is considerably weaken the author argument for sell his friend home with Adams rather than with Fitch.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now , is considerably flawed due the reliance on the several unwarranted assumptions. If the author provide more evidence and can answer the three questions above, then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation of sell home with Fitch rather than with Adams.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 564 350
No. of Characters: 2652 1500
No. of Different Words: 224 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.873 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.702 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.338 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 164 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 113 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.56 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.011 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.49 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.095 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 121, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...ith Adams because the revenue is higher as compared to Fitch as well as Adams has ...
^^
Line 5, column 859, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ith every category of Customers. Due to this reasons, Fitch might have less numbers ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 890, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun numbers is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
.... Due to this reasons, Fitch might have less numbers of agents and revenue. If eithe...
^^^^
Line 13, column 174, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...th. In the time difference of nine years ,the land rates must have been changed, o...
^^
Line 17, column 704, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'weakened'.
Suggestion: weakened
...ecurity and trust. This is considerably weaken the author argument for sell his friend...
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Line 17, column 731, Rule ID: FOR_SELL[1]
Message: Did you mean 'for sale'?
Suggestion: for sale
...considerably weaken the author argument for sell his friend home with Adams rather than ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 23, column 46, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...nclusion, the argument, as it stands now , is considerably flawed due the reliance...
^^
Line 23, column 189, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e more evidence and can answer the three questions above, then it will be possibl...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2739.0 2260.96107784 121% => OK
No of words: 564.0 441.139720559 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85638297872 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87326216964 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42321246486 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 204.123752495 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.416666666667 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 856.8 705.55239521 121% => OK
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: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.8762219133 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.56 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.56 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.52 5.70786347227 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.197202982785 0.218282227539 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0642378503696 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0628624802263 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1175101827 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0681032588026 0.0628817314937 108% => 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: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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