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 letter presented to a friend by a homeowner is clearly promoting the friend to approach Admas Realty by stating that Adams Realty is more capable than Fitch Realty in selling of the house at higher prices and swiftly. In the very first appearance it seems to be valid to agree with the homeowner to approach Adams Realty for selling of the home. The facts presented like the number of state agents associated with Adams Realty is more than that associated with Fitch Realty and moreover the average price the house was greater as compared to tht with Filch realty.
The claim states the availability of lesser number of state agents being associated with the Adams Realty is affecting not selling off the proerty quickly. Can we blatantly posit that it is a responsible factor? According to me, it is mandatory to analyse the distribution of the number of state agents working in the area. If the numbe rof state agents are particularly concentrated in specific areas then it might be difficult to sell off the property quickly and if not then it can not be proved responsible for the delay.
The homeowner compares both the real estate firms on behalf of his personal experience too where he clearly justifies his support to Adams Realty by stating Adams Realty was able to sell off the property in a month whereas Filch Realty took a time period of four months to sell off another property. It is not justified to compare the time period required by the each firm to sell off different properties and moreover in a gap of nine years. It is necessary to know what is the location of the property, its condition and also the economic aspect of the country at the time when homeowner listed the property with Filch. There are times when buyers of the property decline due to inflation or economic stress, it is important to answer, was the property being sold during such stress conditions. What were the conditions of the property, were those desirable and what was the location, as some locations are definitely preferred by the buyers. It is also important to analyse the number of state agents that were associated with Filch Realty,ten years back.
The claim presented by the homeowner, the Adam Realty generated the twice as the revenue generated by Filch, requires more analysis, a year back. It is necessary to know whether the data presented is authentic or not. There might be a case that the data's presented by either of the firm is not correct, may be Filch Realty is trying to hide the money from paperwork, keeping it black or may be Adam Realty is hiking the income, in the light of promotion. This aspect should be analysed more before drawing any conclusion.
It is necessary to check all the conditions and even the authenticity of the data presented. The answers to the arguments presented can be helpful in selecting the firm, capable of selling off the property, desired by a person. It is necessary to know the status of the working of the firm in the area where property need to be sell off.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 531 350
No. of Characters: 2450 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.8 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.614 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.485 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 174 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.55 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.052 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.4 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.341 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.561 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.134 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 532, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...the average price the house was greater as compared to tht with Filch realty. ...
^^
Line 5, column 213, Rule ID: ACCORDING_TO_ME[1]
Message: This phrase can sound awkward in English. Consider using 'in my opinion' or 'I think'.
Suggestion: In my opinion; I think
... posit that it is a responsible factor? According to me, it is mandatory to analyse the distrib...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 368, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...are the time period required by the each firm to sell off different properties an...
^^
Line 9, column 1044, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , ten
...s that were associated with Filch Realty,ten years back. The claim presented b...
^^^^
Line 17, column 132, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
.... The answers to the arguments presented can be helpful in selecting the firm, ca...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, so, then, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.6327345309 199% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 83.0 55.5748502994 149% => OK
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: 2511.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 530.0 441.139720559 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73773584906 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79809637944 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55062239802 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.424528301887 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 795.6 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.9676963646 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.55 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.7 5.70786347227 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.236247455248 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.069388407028 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0976871903222 0.0701772020484 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131500818859 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.099094206039 0.0628817314937 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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