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

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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 claims that, amongst the real estate firms- adams realty and fitch realty, adams is far superior as compared to fitch. The statement made by the author is filled with gaps and holes, lacking solid evidence to prove his point. there are also many flaws in his assumptions which leads to some serious implications when proven unwarranted.

The author states that, adams realty is superior to fitch realty due to a larger number of real estate agents working in adams realty as compared to fitch realty. The author has assumed that, having a large number of real estate agents ...

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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... firm better than its competition. Additionally, the author mentions that, ...
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...ade his listing with fitch realty. To sum it all up, we can conclude that, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, may, moreover, so, therefore, while, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2471.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 527.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68880455408 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79129216042 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.25538245832 2.78398813304 81% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.402277039848 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 750.6 705.55239521 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 21.0 8.76447105788 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.7042540083 57.8364921388 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.958333333 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9583333333 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.58333333333 5.70786347227 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
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: 0.364802103107 0.218282227539 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125774303978 0.0743258471296 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122579598586 0.0701772020484 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.216005793837 0.128457276422 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106746130478 0.0628817314937 170% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.3550499002 139% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.5979740519 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.25 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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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: 19 15
No. of Words: 527 350
No. of Characters: 2373 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.791 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.503 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.174 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 160 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.737 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.7 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.474 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.395 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.592 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.197 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5