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 argument here states that "If you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty" based on some assumptions. However, there are many flaws in the argument's assumption.
First, the writer mentions that Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25. Having more real estate agents does not really mean that the company's revenue will higher. It also depends on the efficiency of the real estate agents. It is possible that 25 real estate agents may have more sales than 40 real estate agents. Also, writer of the argument shows that out of 25 real estate agents of Fitch, many only works part-time. However, no information is given that out of 40 real estate agents how many agents are doing part time job. So, both the number and the efficiency of real estate agents should be taken into consideration while making the argument's point.
Second, write mentions that Adams revenue is twice as high as Fitch's revenue. But, if the revenue is high that does not really mean that Home will be sold faster with Adams' Realty than Fitch's Realty. There is fair amount of chance that the home will be sold with Fitch's realty faster than Adams'. It has nothing to do with the revenue of the company. So, if the time in which home is sold out, is also mentioned with the revenue than it would make the argument cogent.
Third, and the most important assumption made here is, ten years ago the writer listed his home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell, whereas when he listed another home with Fitch last year, it took only one month. The writer of the argument here assumes that before 10 years Fitch and Adams' Realty were as active in the business as they are today. It is possible that home is listed with Fitch last year, it would have taken less time. So, the comparison of time should be done in the same year. Also, it is assumed that last year and before 10 years, the demand for home is the same. Whereas it is highly possible that in 10 years the demand for Homes have changed drastically.
And the last assumption which can be taken into consideration is that writer does not mention anything about Realty companies other than Adams and Fitch. It is possible that there is any other company which sells the Home faster than Adams and Fitch. So, writer's argument that if you want to sell your home faster, you should list it with Adams, is not true. Other realty companies should also be considered for the faster home selling.
In summary, there are many assumptions made in the argument. Hence, the argument seems very unconvincing. The revenue and the number of real estate agent is not sufficient. Author should have considered other factors such as the efficiency of the real estate agents, profit of the company, current demand for homes etc.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 194, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
...s. However, there are many flaws in the arguments assumption. First, the writer mentio...
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Line 3, column 534, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...estate agents how many agents are doing part time job. So, both the number and the effici...
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Line 11, column 320, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e company, current demand for homes etc.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'second', 'so', 'third', 'whereas', 'while', 'in contrast', 'in summary', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.258407079646 0.25644967241 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.148672566372 0.15541462614 96% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0796460176991 0.0836205057962 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0654867256637 0.0520304965353 126% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0371681415929 0.0272364105082 136% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.130973451327 0.125424944231 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0353982300885 0.0416121511921 85% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.1744047606 2.79052419416 78% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0070796460177 0.026700313972 27% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00176991150442 0.001811407834 98% => OK
Determiners: 0.0761061946903 0.113004496875 67% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0230088495575 0.0255425247493 90% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.012389380531 0.0127820249294 97% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2833.0 2731.13054187 104% => OK
No of words: 502.0 446.07635468 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.64342629482 6.12365571057 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7334296765 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.306772908367 0.378187486979 81% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.157370517928 0.287650121315 55% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.0996015936255 0.208842608468 48% => More words length more than 7 chars wanted.
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0537848605578 0.135150697306 40% => More words length more than 8 chars wanted.
Word Length SD: 2.1744047606 2.79052419416 78% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 207.018472906 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.402390438247 0.469332199767 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 45.5185976916 52.1807786196 87% => OK
How many sentences: 28.0 20.039408867 140% => OK
Sentence length: 17.9285714286 23.2022227129 77% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.3464951892 57.7814097925 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.178571429 141.986410481 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9285714286 23.2022227129 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.571428571429 0.724660767414 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 33.6656232214 51.9672348444 65% => OK
Elegance: 1.69014084507 1.8405768891 92% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.413869672343 0.441005458295 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.177543599337 0.135418324435 131% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.130608467005 0.0829849096947 157% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.575117032903 0.58762219726 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.11249546428 0.147661913831 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163842112105 0.193483328276 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0818539579203 0.0970749176394 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.293650082398 0.42659136922 69% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.114000031679 0.0774707102158 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.259636582639 0.312017818177 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0751290625764 0.0698173142475 108% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.87684729064 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.82512315271 228% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.82389162562 177% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 14.657635468 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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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