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 wrote a letter to his friend suggesting that between the two leading real estate firms- Adams Realty and Fitch realty Adams realty is more superior because Adam has more real estate agent agents comparatively to Fitch as Fitch has only 25 out which many are part time. The revenue of Adam was twice as high as that of Fitch and Home listed with Adams sell faster. The author has listed his home with Fitch 10 years ago and it took him four months to sell and when he listed the home in Adam last year took only month. So the author wants his friend to use Adam Realty as it sell's your home quickly and at good price. But this might not be agreeable.
Firstly, Adam might be superior as the Adam has forty real estate agent and Fitch has 25 out which many are part-timers. But there is no proof that the part timers are inefficient. We have no idea that agents of Adam are more efficient. There might be case where the agents of Adam must have shifted of the Fitch due to more proficient work culture. We cannot determine the efficiency of Adam Realty just because it has more real estate agents.
Secondly, The revenue of Adam Realty might be high comparatively to the Fitch but there procedures of buying and selling the property must not be that proper where as the Fitch procedures and methods of buying and selling a property might be more accurate comparatively to the Adam. Fitch might be following all the government policy as suggested. Fitch must b planning a long term goal instead of a short term. Many customers might be satisfied with the procedures of Fitch.
Thirdly, The author said that the home listed in Adam sell faster. As he listed his house at Fitch ten years ago and it took four months to sell. The data is ten years ago we cannot conclude the ten year old data with last year or present data. Now Fitch must be more efficient then Adam. Fitch might take less than one month to sell the property that too with proper procedures.Fitch might sell the property for very good money comparatively to Adam. The author did not try to list his house recently so we cannot conclude with the ten years old data.
By the above examples we can conclude that with-out proper information one cannot directly suggest Adam. We need to dig more information about Fitch ten years old data is not sufficient and it cannot be compared with the present or last year. The revenue might be higher for Adam but they did not mention any particular year about the revenue there might be lot of changes in the meantime for Fitch as well. As we do not have any idea about the rules and procedures of Adam you cannot assume directly that Adam is more superior than Fitch.
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: 24 15
No. of Words: 491 350
No. of Characters: 2157 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.707 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.393 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.159 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 116 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 69 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.458 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.939 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.375 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.531 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.187 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 270, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...as Fitch has only 25 out which many are part time. The revenue of Adam was twice as high ...
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Line 1, column 376, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...and Home listed with Adams sell faster. The author has listed his home with Fitch 1...
^^^
Line 3, column 67, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'agent' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'agents'.
Suggestion: agents
...erior as the Adam has forty real estate agent and Fitch has 25 out which many are par...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 159, Rule ID: WHERE_AS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'whereas'?
Suggestion: whereas
...ng the property must not be that proper where as the Fitch procedures and methods of buy...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 279, Rule ID: LESS_MORE_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'than'?
Suggestion: than
... data. Now Fitch must be more efficient then Adam. Fitch might take less than one mo...
^^^^
Line 7, column 380, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Fitch
...roperty that too with proper procedures.Fitch might sell the property for very good m...
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Line 9, column 515, Rule ID: SUPERIOR_THAN[2]
Message: The adjective more is normally used with to and does not need 'more' (so called implicit comparative). Probably you need to write: 'superior to'.
Suggestion: superior to
...you cannot assume directly that Adam is more superior than Fitch.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, well, as for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.9520958084 178% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2201.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 490.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.49183673469 5.12650576532 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.25862685098 2.78398813304 81% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.371428571429 0.468620217663 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 688.5 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.4206023459 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.7083333333 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4166666667 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.375 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.337428699245 0.218282227539 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118195795435 0.0743258471296 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124113446575 0.0701772020484 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226674095592 0.128457276422 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.123093168099 0.0628817314937 196% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 14.3799401198 69% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 48.3550499002 141% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.76 12.5979740519 70% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.56 8.32208582834 79% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 98.500998004 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 12.3882235529 137% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
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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