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.
At first glance, the argument mentioned above by the homeowner recommending Adams Realty over Fitch Realty to his friend seems to be backed by plenty of evidence. Once the reasons are analyzed, it’s not challenging to notice the flaws and lack of cogency in the homeowner’s reasoning behind his recommendation.
Initially, the homeowner argues that Adams Realty is superior because of their workforce compared to Fitch’s. Adams employs 40 real estate agents versus 25 of the alternative option. He also commends Adams for not having any part time employees. This reason by itself lacks coher...
Subscribe as testbig VIP readers and get unlimited access to essays on the top list.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
----------------
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 462 350
No. of Characters: 2185 1500
No. of Different Words: 230 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.636 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.729 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.372 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 148 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.769 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.116 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.538 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.273 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.466 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 221, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'noticing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'challenge' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: noticing
...are analyzed, it's not challenging to notice the flaws and lack of cogency in the ho...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 231, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
... also commends Adams for not having any part time employees. This reason by itself lacks ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, lastly, regarding, so, still, then, therefore, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2280.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 461.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94577006508 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58199740199 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 204.123752495 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51409978308 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 707.4 705.55239521 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.4485906123 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.4444444444 119.503703932 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0740740741 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.62962962963 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215803501557 0.218282227539 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0599973884085 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0861986625034 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132406895487 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0557853574647 0.0628817314937 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.