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 original 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 renders the decision of SuperCorp to move its headquarters from Middlesburg to Corporateville as the best decision. The argument is not completely supported by preliminary pieces of evidences and is also based on certain flawed assumptions as delineated below.
How many employees were surveyed by SuperCorp? Was the number statistically significant to extrapolate to a decisive conclusion? What was the nature of the work the employees were subjected to in it? Did SuperCorp provide a peaceful and harmonious environment to work or was the workplace a melange of cacaphony? It is plausible that SuperCorp, centered in an urban area, failed to provide peaceful working conditions due to which the employees preferred to work in a non urban area owing to its sanguinity.
The argument takes a major leap in concluding the decision right by mentioning a surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville. Were the reasons for increase in the homeowners thoroughly investigated? Such a proliferation of homeowners in Corporateville could not neccessarily mean that all of them, on a whim, preferred to shift to this place cause it proved superior. There could have been an underlying reason. Maybe they belonged to a neighbouring city which could have been decimated by a natural calamity and that they shifted here as this was the only place nearby to accomodate them. There is a plethora of such possibilities. Therefore, it is of cardinal importance to study the reasons for such an increase inorder to obtain a derivation from the inference.
How can lower tax pave path for a safe workplace ? What unmentioned role has tax played in determining the safety of the work? The argument has left the question unanswered. Also, lower tax doesnt neccessarily mean a cheaper place as the place could still demand higher rents and exorbitant rates of goods and commodities.This is an undeniable possibility unless quoted otherwise. Unless a comparision is expressed between the cost of living and goods in Corporateville and Middlesburg, such an assumption could prove erroneous.
Ultimately, though the argument could be valid, such a disposition cannot be made from the current stand. Supercorp could provide a transparent clarification for the aforementioned questions and assumptions taken for granted, for a detailed examination and assimilation of the facts and figures.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK. The survey is only about workers where to live, not where to work.
argument 2 -- 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: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 378 350
No. of Characters: 1971 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.409 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.214 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.219 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 98 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 76 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.513 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.143 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.271 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.502 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.077 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 191, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...he question unanswered. Also, lower tax doesnt neccessarily mean a cheaper place as th...
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Line 7, column 323, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
...orbitant rates of goods and commodities.This is an undeniable possibility unless quo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, so, still, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2019.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 377.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35543766578 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.32984721543 2.78398813304 120% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527851458886 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 647.1 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.5203354236 57.8364921388 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.1428571429 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9523809524 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.66666666667 5.70786347227 29% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182400873179 0.218282227539 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0501349973533 0.0743258471296 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687689191303 0.0701772020484 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0950800729387 0.128457276422 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0455324978248 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.51 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 98.500998004 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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