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 decision of relocation of SuperCorp's headquarters to Corporateville depends on some assumptions throughout the decision making process. The validity of these assumptions are somewhat unwarranted.
The first assumption the paragraph states is that the recent surges of homeowners in Corporateville means that Corporateville is a superior place to live. But, sudden surges in homeowners can't be tantamount to being the superior place to live. It may happen that, recently the house prices in Corporateville has dropped. Many persons may have noticed this and thus caused the sudden surge of homeowners. But, price drops of houses doesn't mean that the other cost of livelihood are also cheaper here. The price of the groceries can be high, thus negating the advantage one gets from living in this area.
Another assumption the paragraph takes is as the employees in SuperCorp prefers living in areas that are not urban, they would be interested in living in Corporateville. But, the paragraph gives no indication of the questions asked in that survey. The questions used in the survey might be very biased and swayed the employee to the side of prefering places not urban for living.
Third assumption that was made in this paragraph is that as the taxes are lower in Corporateville, it is cheaper to live there. But, the relative cost of other commodities are not mentioned here. It may be the case that the roads in Corporateville are not developed enough, thus might cause more cost in transportation. Higher costs in other sectors can negate the effect of lowering the taxes.
The paragraph also assumes that Corporateville is a safer place to work as it has lower taxes. But, it doesn't show a relation between the safety of a place and the taxes there. It might have no relation at all.
Regarding the assumptions taken in the paragraphs, we can reach to the conclusion that, the assumptions are inconclusive, thus calling the argument into question.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 325 350
No. of Characters: 1600 1500
No. of Different Words: 152 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.246 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.923 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.959 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 75 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.105 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.581 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.572 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, 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.
...ssumptions are somewhat unwarranted. The first assumption the paragraph states i...
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Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... live. But, sudden surges in homeowners cant be tantamount to being the superior pla...
^^^^
Line 3, column 432, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... homeowners. But, price drops of houses doesnt mean that the other cost of livelihood ...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 104, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... to work as it has lower taxes. But, it doesnt show a relation between the safety of a...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, may, regarding, so, third, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1651.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 323.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11145510836 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00535805775 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489164086687 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 705.55239521 73% => 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: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.3735619796 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.8947368421 119.503703932 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.57894736842 5.70786347227 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210556315725 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0658185187566 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0883736857469 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0927980656935 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0701653804527 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => 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: 12.06 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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