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."
The letter from homeowner to friend states that there 2 leading real estate firms in our town and they are Adams Realty and Fitch Realty, in which Adams Realty is superior. And he consists of 40 real estate agents and Fitch has only 25.And compared each others revenues and listed as $168,00 for Adams and $144,00 for Fitch.Then he added his own experience of selling his homes with both of them,but is satisfied only with Adams, who sold his home early compared to Fitch.And provided an advice that if any chance to sell your house and your are interested to gain a good price consult Adams Realty is his advice. I find this argument absolutely illogical, defective and irrational due to its inherent weaknesses.
Weaknesses in this Argument:
Firstly, the assumption made by the homeowner regarding the leading real estate firms in that particular town as Adams Realty and Fitch Realty. How can someone assume that a particular firms in the town are leading without any proper evidence. And he even not explained about the other firms in the town to justify his statement. For, this I find it illogical.
Secondly, the homeowner assumed that Adams Realty is superior compared to the Fitch Realty based only the revenues and the staff of the individual. There might be a possible case that Adam has inherited the fortune from his parents and Fitch earned his own fortune. Even though both of their revenues are comparable. So, I find this assumption as defective.
Thirdly, homeowner assumed that Adams Realty is the best firm based on his previous experience with both of them. And the house sold by the Fitch Realty may have legal allegations and house may not be in the urban region,but house sold by Adams Realty is in urban region with no allegations. So, this might be a possible case and this case is assumed because he didn't provided any further evidence for assuming this.
Finally, based on the above assumptions which can be contradicted equally and even though he is advising for the friend to consult the Adams Realty for good price in significant time seems to be an irrational and illogical statement.
My Remarks:
As I have unravelled the defects in the argument. I strongly recommend the homeowner to withdraw his suggestion regarding the advice,and conduct research on the subject before it can provide any genuine advice.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 11.1786427146 197% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1962.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 398.0 441.139720559 90% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92964824121 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56577816569 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 204.123752495 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.459798994975 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 611.1 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.471057884232 425% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.67365269461 478% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 92.223851331 57.8364921388 159% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.411764706 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4117647059 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.41176470588 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.369803750534 0.218282227539 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12819593846 0.0743258471296 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.16947422239 0.0701772020484 241% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167053721096 0.128457276422 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.129788628564 0.0628817314937 206% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 26.0 12.3882235529 210% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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