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.
In the argument provided, the Supercorp has moved its headquarters from Middleburg to Corporateville and the decision made was the best one. It is because according to a survey, employees preferred living in an area which is not urban. In addition to it, there are lower taxes in Corporateville and is also a safer place to live. Though the allegations made in the argument seems legitimate, there are many loopholes which are need to be introspected in order to make this argument a valid one.
To begin with, the author alleges that Corporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg as the number of homeowners are more in Corporateville. However, one cannot come to a conclusion that a place is superior to other just because there are many homeowners. For instance, if the climatic conditions in Corporateville is better than Middlesburg, one can say that the former is superior. The author has not provided any such statement which supports his notion that Corporateville is superior place to live. Had the author provided more details regarding the comparision of both the states, then it would have been a valid point.
Secondly, there was a survey conducted in the corporation and the workers preferred to live in an area which is not urban. Yet, there is nowhere in the argument that Corporateville is not an urban backdrop. Even the number of participants in the survey was not mentioned and the statistics were not discussed. Have all the people participated in the survey? If there are only 10 people who participated in the survey out of 100, then this could not be a valid statement for the argument. However, there is no mention of any such report and this weakens the argument further.
Thirdly, the writer alleges that Corporateville has lower taxes than Middlesburg. However, the criterion which is used to compare was not provided. For instance, if Corporateville has many low income group citizens, the taxes would be lower, but one cannot say that it is a cheaper one. The cost of living might be higher than any other state but with lower taxes. Under this condition one cannot come to a conclusion that it is cheaper place. Had the author provided the tax constraints and statistics of the number of people living in the locality, it would have been a cogent argument.
The author also makes a point that Corporateville is a safe place to live. But the basis on which this statement is put forth was not provided. Is it guarded by a much stronger military and police force compared to Middleburg? Is it due to less citizen to cop ratio? There are no statements to substantiate this point.
To conclude, the author has made many points that Supercorp has made the best decision. Yet, there are no valid points regarding the criterion in which both the places were compared in the argument. There are also no supporting statistics to validate his unstated assumptions. The author must have provided the valid proofs for the statements he had made in order to make is argument a cogent one.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, for instance, in addition, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 42.0 19.6327345309 214% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2518.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 518.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.861003861 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77070365392 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89509645069 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.3861003861 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 819.0 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 19.7664670659 152% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.8137636182 57.8364921388 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 83.9333333333 119.503703932 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2666666667 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.96666666667 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.194359599487 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0596062947699 0.0743258471296 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0789090077128 0.0701772020484 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110056250999 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0749772237432 0.0628817314937 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 14.3799401198 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.61 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.38 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => 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 -- 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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