The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend.
"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."
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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The homeowner in his letter to his friend argues that Adam Realty is much better real estate firm than Fitch Reality. He suggests his friend to approach Adam Realty for selling house faster and at good price. He provides several arguments to explain his conclusion in his letter. However, these arguments in themselves lack details and rely on some assumptions.
The author of the letter states that one of the reason why he considers Adam Realty to be a superior firm is that it has more number of real estate agents in comparison to Fitch Reality. However, this is a big assumption that number of agents is an important factor in determining the quality of any real estate firm.
It may be that agents of Fitch Reality are much more efficient and provide better quality of service in comparison to the agents of Adam Realty. So it is important to compare the quality of agents in both firm and number alone wont tell the whole story.
His second argument in favor of Adam Realty firm is that its last year revenue was greater than Fitch Realty. But this is also an incomplete information to judge the quality of the firm. Firstly the difference in revenue not a lot, only about 10 percent. And judging any firm's quality on the basis of its revenue in one given year is very wrong. One year is a very short period to draw any big conclusions, and real estate business being very unpredictable, its common to have low revenue some times even of the firm is very good. So it may be better to look at revenue output of the two firms over a period of say five years to draw more reliable conclusions.
Lastly the author gives his own experince as an example to sugest that Adam Realty is better firm. His experience being that he had reached both the firms for selling his home, and Adam Realty was much more quick and efficient in selling the house. However the important thing to address in this example is that he had provided both the firms with different home. So it is possible that the home provided to Adam Realty was much more lucerative than the other and hence was easy to sell. As its apparent, the value of any house is assessed on a variety of factors, and without knowing these factors of the houses mentioned by the author, it is not possible to asses the realtive quality of the two houses. Without knowing for sure if the houses were comparable, its not possible to say weather selling one house more effeciently is a sign of good estate firm.
So based on the above points, it is safe to say that the authors argument as it stands now is flawed. His argument can be taken much more seriously if he provides more details and facts on the questions raised by the above paragraphs.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 490 350
No. of Characters: 2168 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.705 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.424 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.293 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.273 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.43 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.327 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.551 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.175 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 10, column 250, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ick and efficient in selling the house. However the important thing to address in this ...
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Line 12, column 58, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...bove points, it is safe to say that the authors argument as it stands now is flawed. Hi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, lastly, look, may, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 28.8173652695 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2222.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 490.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.53469387755 5.12650576532 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36403709508 2.78398813304 85% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.410204081633 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 716.4 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.3680523094 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.0 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2727272727 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.45454545455 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.20758483034 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271454312957 0.218282227539 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0924677833142 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102100412558 0.0701772020484 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161489785901 0.128457276422 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100969202328 0.0628817314937 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.29 12.5979740519 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.37 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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