The following appeared in a memo from the president of Bower Builders, a company that constructs new homes.
"A nationwide survey reveals that the two most-desired home features are a large family room and a large, well-appointed kitchen. A number of homes in our area built by our competitor Domus Construction have such features and have sold much faster and at significantly higher prices than the national average. To boost sales and profits, we should increase the size of the family rooms and kitchens in all the homes we build and should make state-of-the-art kitchens a standard feature. Moreover, our larger family rooms and kitchens can come at the expense of the dining room, since many of our recent buyers say they do not need a separate dining room for family meals."
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 following appeared in memo from the president of Bower Builder, a company that construct new homes. Author made conclusion that, to boost sales and profits, we should increase the size of family room and kitchen in all the homes we build and should make state of the art kitchen a standard features. Author made several stated and unstated assumption which need evidences.
Firstly, author state that a nationwide survey reveals that the two most-desired home features are a large family room and a large, well-appointed kitchen. In addition to this author further state that number of homes in our area built by our competitor Domus Construction have such features and have sold much faster and at significantly higher price than the national average. Author made assumption that, implementing large family room and large well appointed kitchen attract buyers, they buy home even at higher price without complaint it. Nation wide survey not applicable to individual one, they differ in their liking. Author need to survey about people requirement, whether price really affordable to people.
Secondly, author state that to boost sales and profit, we should increase the size of family rooms and kitchen in all homes we build and should make state of the art kitchen standard features. Author made assumption that, competitor Domus construction homes at faster we also increase size of family and make state of kitchen a standard features. Author need survey location of home builds by Domos Construction, if they build in high class, luxerious people group of people. They are not differ by increasing price, instead they very alienate towards decorate their homes. Author need to check people requirement, it is possibility of they are not interested in large room and kitchen, they accept regular kitchen and room.
Thirdly, author state that moreover our larger family room and kitchen are come at expenses of dinning room, since many of our recent buyers say they do not need a separate dining room for family meals. Author made assumption that, larger family rooms and kitchen can come at expenses of dining room, so they do not require separate dining room. Author need to check whether it really satisfy requirement of dining room. If it involves very few spaces to dining room, then argument may became fail.
To sum up with all, author need to check several point before making any conclusion. The argument weaken because of several stated and unstated assumption.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 14 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 405 350
No. of Characters: 2028 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.486 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.007 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.441 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 160 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.316 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.945 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.632 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.369 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.575 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.16 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 259, Rule ID: STATE_OF_THE_ART[1]
Message: Did you mean 'state-of-the-art'?
Suggestion: state-of-the-art
... all the homes we build and should make state of the art kitchen a standard features. Author mad...
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Line 3, column 546, Rule ID: NATION_WIDE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nationwide'?
Suggestion: Nationwide
...n at higher price without complaint it. Nation wide survey not applicable to individual one...
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Line 5, column 150, Rule ID: STATE_OF_THE_ART[1]
Message: Did you mean 'state-of-the-art'?
Suggestion: state-of-the-art
...n in all homes we build and should make state of the art kitchen standard features. Author made ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 490, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'differed'.
Suggestion: differed
...us people group of people. They are not differ by increasing price, instead they very ...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 268, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hat, larger family rooms and kitchen can come at expenses of dining room, so they...
^^
Line 9, column 42, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun point seems to be countable; consider using: 'several points'.
Suggestion: several points
...o sum up with all, author need to check several point before making any conclusion. The argum...
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Line 9, column 157, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...several stated and unstated assumption.
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, well, in addition, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 19.6327345309 25% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2086.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 405.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15061728395 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50530301758 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.446913580247 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 646.2 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2256379837 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.789473684 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3157894737 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36842105263 5.70786347227 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.317476020893 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112287635668 0.0743258471296 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134442735415 0.0701772020484 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173174993657 0.128457276422 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121531443579 0.0628817314937 193% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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