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 stated argument falls apart due to the lack of evidence to back certain claims and the assumptions discussed below.
The author claims that the recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves that it is a better place to live than Middlesburg. However, this recent increase in the number of homeowners can be due to an increase in population resulting in the demand for more accommodation. Nowhere is it stated (with backing evidence) that the homeowners in Corporateville moved there from Middlesburg because they were unhappy with there living conditions. Therefore, the living conditions of the homeowners of those two places cannot be compared.
Then the author proceeds to state the results an employee survey to back the claim that the employees prefer to live in an area that is not urban. However, information regarding the survey itself - such as sample size - is not mentioned. If only 50% of the employees took part in the survey then the results of the survey are not indicative of the opinions and feelings of the entire employee base.
Finally, lower taxes in Middlesburg might mean that it is a cheaper area to live as compared to Corporateville, but it is in no way an argument that can be used to conclude that it is also a safer place to live which the author assumes.
Stronger evidence such as the reason behind the surge of homeowners in Middlesburg, details regarding the employee survey conducted by SuperCorp and more information regarding how safe Middlesburg really is will help strengthen the author's argument.
In conclusion, due lack of information and backing evidence, it cannot be stated without uncertainty that SuperCorp's decision to move it's headquarters to Middlesburg was the best decision.
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- 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, Mi 50
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- 'lower taxes in Middlesburg' doesn't mean that it is a cheaper area to live as compared to Corporateville
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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: 11 15
No. of Words: 288 350
No. of Characters: 1434 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.12 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.979 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.884 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 108 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.182 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.953 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.391 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.747 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 233, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...burg really is will help strengthen the authors argument. In conclusion, due lack of...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, really, regarding, so, then, therefore, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1473.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 288.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11458333333 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97168764632 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.496527777778 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 705.55239521 65% => 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
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.1682891827 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.909090909 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1818181818 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.63636363636 5.70786347227 151% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.256762412372 0.218282227539 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103939727206 0.0743258471296 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120215685316 0.0701772020484 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11388670484 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107571814015 0.0628817314937 171% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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