SuperCorp recently moved its headquarters to Corporateville. The recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves that Corporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg, the home of SuperCorp's current headquarters. Moreover, Middleburg is a predominately urban area and according to an employee survey, SuperCorp has determined that its workers prefer to live in an area that is not urban. Finally, Corporateville has lower taxes than Middlesburg, making it not only a safer place to work but also a cheaper one. Therefore, Supercorp clearly made the best decision.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument is completely flawed because it makes assumptions and provides only vague details. It is judging a place based only on the number of homeowners and comes to a conclusion based only on an employee survey, which could be misleading. It also assumes that lower taxes means a lower cost of living, and states that Corporateville is much safer than Middlesburg without giving any sort of reason.
The argument makes a claim saying that Corporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg based only on the "recent surge in the number of owners." There are a number of flaws with this statement. Firstly, it should provide information on the number of homeowners in both Middlesburg and Corporateville, because, for all we know, Middlesburg could have a higher number of homeowners than Corporateville. Moreover, it fails to say why SuperCorp has based its success on the surge in number of owners. Along with this, it has not stated what kind of organization SuperCorp is, as this is important important information to judge the organization's reason to move. Therefore, in order for one to come to a conclusion, the argument needs to provide information on what kind of company SuperCorp is, why it bases its success on the number of homeowners in a place, the number of homeowners in each place and also a comprehensive study on both the places' infrastructre and environment.
The argument justifies its claim based on an employee survey. Employee surveys are highly misleading in most cases, and it could be wrong in this case as well. It does not tell us why workers prefer to not live in urban areas like Middlesburg. It does not tell us if Corporateville is rural, suburban or urban, because for all we know, Corporateville itself could be an urban area. Therefore, in order for the argument to justify this part of its claim, it should tell us if Corporateville is not an urban area, and it should also allow workers to express their thoughts as to why they don't want to live in urban areas.
The argument makes another flawed claim based on Corporateville's lower taxes and thus says that Corporateville is cheaper. Lower taxes does not necessarily mean cheaper because Corporateville could have high living costs. It also fails to mention what kinds of taxes are lower in Corporateville than Middlesburg. Also, it says that Corporateville is much safer than Middlesburg without providing even a modicum of evidence. Therefore, in order to strengthen its claim, the argument would have to provide us with statistical data based on taxes and living costs, environmental analysis, and workplace analysis, in order to know if Corporateville is actually safer and cheaper than Middlesburg.
Therefore, in order for the argument to strengthen its claims and discard its flaws, it would need to perform a lot of comprehensive studies and a complete analysis. The argument should compare Corporateville and Middlesburg only if there is enough information to convince the person who is analyzing it.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: important
...f organization SuperCorp is, as this is important important information to judge the organizations ...
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Suggestion: don't
...o express their thoughts as to why they dont want to live in urban areas. The...
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Suggestion:
... they dont want to live in urban areas. The argument makes another flawed claim ...
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Suggestion:
...lly safer and cheaper than Middlesburg. Therefore, in order for the argument to ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'as to', 'kind of', 'sort of', 'in most cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.241877256318 0.25644967241 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.160649819495 0.15541462614 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0613718411552 0.0836205057962 73% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0559566787004 0.0520304965353 108% => OK
Pronouns: 0.057761732852 0.0272364105082 212% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.135379061372 0.125424944231 108% => OK
Participles: 0.028880866426 0.0416121511921 69% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.14044582822 2.79052419416 113% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0361010830325 0.026700313972 135% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0848375451264 0.113004496875 75% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0198555956679 0.0255425247493 78% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0162454873646 0.0127820249294 127% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3039.0 2731.13054187 111% => OK
No of words: 500.0 446.07635468 112% => OK
Chars per words: 6.078 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.328 0.378187486979 87% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.25 0.287650121315 87% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.186 0.208842608468 89% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.14 0.135150697306 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14044582822 2.79052419416 113% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 207.018472906 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.398 0.469332199767 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 44.9560839154 52.1807786196 86% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.039408867 100% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.2022227129 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.1165637341 57.7814097925 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.95 141.986410481 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 23.2022227129 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.75 0.724660767414 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 50.0 51.9672348444 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.48026315789 1.8405768891 80% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.47393866754 0.441005458295 107% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.180125224866 0.135418324435 133% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0950025205542 0.0829849096947 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.56708775055 0.58762219726 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.14507327142 0.147661913831 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.197146884911 0.193483328276 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109726797812 0.0970749176394 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.3795856355 0.42659136922 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0378604089577 0.0774707102158 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.315121528016 0.312017818177 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119101292964 0.0698173142475 171% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.87684729064 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.82389162562 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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