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, Middlesburg 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 in its current state looks flawed for many reasons and there are a number of unstated assumptions which are needed to be cleared so that we can be able to evaluate the decision of Supercop to moving its headquarters in Corporateville.
The city with which Corporateville is being compared is Middleburg. The arguments on which comparison is based, need more data to become credible. Starting from the first statement of surge in homeowners in Corporateville which make it a superior place to live looks completely fictional. The surge could be because of the reason that the cost of renting or owning a house in Corporateville is less as compared to Middlesburg. This reason by no means imply that the infrastructure of Corporateville is better than that of Middlesburg. So nothing could be surely said about the superiority of one city from the other.
Now coming to the survey conducted from Supercorp's employees. There is no information on exact number of employees which participated in the survey and how many of them choose living in a area which is not urban over an urban town. Some data in form of pie charts or simply in percentage should be provided. Moreover, there is no information in the argument about Corporateville, that is it an urban place or rural or suburb. So the data/information about the survey and the type of locality Corporateville is, is needed to make any decision on these factors.
Third statement which looks flawed is the comparison of tax between the two places. But nowhere it has been mentioned that what tax is being taken into account. Are they taking about the tax on citizens of that city or the tax which a company needs to pay. Even if it is made clear the next question comes that how can we say that a city is safer if it has lower taxes, as given in the argument. Taxing system and law and order of a place are two completey different entities. So more infromation on the elements, which make Corporateville safer is needed.
In conclusion i can say that if these understated assumptions can be cleared then we can be able to come in a position of evaluating the decision of Supercorp.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Taxing system and law and order of a place are two completey different entities.
Error: completey Suggestion: complete
Sentence: So more infromation on the elements, which make Corporateville safer is needed.
Error: infromation Suggestion: information
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argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 376 350
No. of Characters: 1742 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.403 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.633 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.886 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 103 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 75 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.789 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.594 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.526 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.299 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.522 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.087 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 69, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...eville is being compared is Middleburg. The arguments on which comparison is based,...
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Line 3, column 400, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...wning a house in Corporateville is less as compared to Middlesburg. This reason by...
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Line 5, column 177, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to live'.
Suggestion: to live
... the survey and how many of them choose living in a area which is not urban over an ur...
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Line 5, column 187, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...y and how many of them choose living in a area which is not urban over an urban t...
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Line 9, column 15, Rule ID: I_LOWERCASE[2]
Message: Did you mean 'I'?
Suggestion: I
...ville safer is needed. In conclusion i can say that if these understated assum...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, look, moreover, so, then, third, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1783.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 375.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.75466666667 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00261930099 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.48 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 580.5 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.2860407274 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.8421052632 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7368421053 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.26315789474 5.70786347227 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.178870568279 0.218282227539 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0555061438533 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0547974545797 0.0701772020484 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0962256353225 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0596507391579 0.0628817314937 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.3799401198 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.27 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => 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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