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 was about how Adams real estate better than Fitch real estate in terms of workers and revenue, and the author also expressed his opinion about how he benefited from Adams Realty. The author's conclusion is flawed for the following reasons.
First of all, the author claims that Adams Realty is superior based on the number of workers and revenue, but the basic comparison is flawed. Because it is possible they did not compete in the same place or area. Every place has a different market price and different law. The second reason the author provides that Fitch realty has only 25 part-time workers, whereas Adams has 40 agents. but it may be possible that Fitch real estate saves their money on workers and provide better facility to the customers, or might spend their money on advertisement. Besides, there is no conclusive evidence that those 40 agents are more efficient than 25 workers.
the also compare revenue to bolster his claim, but greater revenue does not mean sales were prolific, it might be possible that flitch real estate sold the more low-cost number of houses and Adams sells few but higher cost houses. it might be possible that flitch realty provides better prices that Adams Realty. Another possibility is that, since they work in different areas, their prices are different and for that reason, their revenue differ.
The author suggests that if someone wants to sell their house at a good price they should use Adams realty, as he expresses personal experience. But the argument is flawed because the first house sold ten years ago, it might be possible that real estate market change in ten years, as we know real estate prices differ and depend on the myriad case. It might be possible that after ten years the demand for the place is high. Even though the author compares two different places and does not provide any information about the places.
The argument based on unwarranted reasons and failed to provide any convincing cases as the author provide incomplete and biased evidence, and should have compared two real estates with analogous conditions.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 354 350
No. of Characters: 1711 1500
No. of Different Words: 167 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.338 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.833 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.21 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 129 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 46 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.09 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.36 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.592 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 197, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...how he benefited from Adams Realty. The authors conclusion is flawed for the following ...
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Line 2, column 389, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
...e workers, whereas Adams has 40 agents. but it may be possible that Fitch real esta...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...ts are more efficient than 25 workers. the also compare revenue to bolster his cla...
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Line 3, column 231, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...Adams sells few but higher cost houses. it might be possible that flitch realty pr...
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Line 5, column 208, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...real estates with analogous conditions.
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, if, may, second, so, whereas, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 55.5748502994 45% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1749.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 354.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9406779661 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28024201671 2.78398813304 82% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.497175141243 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5635738726 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.3125 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.125 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.3125 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253982950019 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0847361407779 0.0743258471296 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0825328747762 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154219771777 0.128457276422 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0704583506043 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => 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: 11.37 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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