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.
In the letter the homeowner advices to a friend to use Adams Realty over Fitch Realty, because this is a more reliable firm for those who want to sell their houses faster. The holder provides logical on the first glance arguments to refer to this agency. However, investing the provided assumptions, one can find controversies in the logic of the owner.
As the reason to rely on Adams Reality the householder present information that it has more estate agents than the other agency. Following this way, this person assumes that the more people work at the firm, the faster it sells a house. This assumption is lack of logic, because there is no correlation between these two characteristics of firms. Thus, Fitch Realty having only 25 agents in its staff can overbeats Adams’ in terms of the number of sales, because these workers are more productive, hard-working and hunger for work.
The other aspect which can be doubt is the average revenue. The lower number does not show that Fitch firm sold fewer houses, maybe they could sell more houses which cost cheaper. For example, Adams Reality sold only 2 houses, and the average was $168,000, but Fitch firm was more succeeded by selling 10 houses. Moreover, since Adams’ has more agents, this firm can require more money for their business.
There is one more point to look closely is the fact that the householder used both firms to sell houses. The author mentions that he used Fitch to sell his own house 10 years ago, and it took 4 months to sell, on the other hand, lately Adams firms has done it faster, when he decided to sell another house. This point is irrelevant, because 10 years ago there might have been fewer people wishing to buy a new house, maybe the first house was situated in a worse location than the other.
Thus, the advice of the householder is not based on any logical arguments, because all they are lack of specific information, and compare different situations at different time periods.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 202, Rule ID: ON_FIRST_GLANCE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'at'?
Suggestion: at
...ses faster. The holder provides logical on the first glance arguments to refer to ...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...roversies in the logic of the owner. As the reason to rely on Adams Reality the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, thus, for example, on the other hand
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 : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1649.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 343.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80758017493 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42402249327 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545189504373 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.388363183 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.933333333 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8666666667 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.73333333333 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178120048985 0.218282227539 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0611300004394 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0660724878435 0.0701772020484 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0975861611649 0.128457276422 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615041478548 0.0628817314937 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => 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: 10.91 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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