It is apparent that the author of the letter believes that Adam’s Realty is superior when compared to Fitch’s Realty. The author provides logical explanations as to why he or she holds this belief. This being said, the validity of the argument posed in the letter is hindered by the many glaring assumptions used by the author. In order for this argument to be strengthened and validated, these assumptions must be clarified and proved warranted.
In theory, more workers may seem desirable. The author of the letter claims that Adam’s Realty has more workers than Fitch and this is evidence enough to serve as a reason why Adams Realty is superior. In reality, this is a assumption made by the author because there is no evidence available to prove that more workers makes the company better. The 40 workers at Adams may be less dedicated than those at Fitch. If this is the case, Fitch may be a more productive realtor. Evidence is needed on the efficiency of the workers at both companies in order for this assumption to be warranted. It cannot be warranted based on the number of employees alone.
Furthermore, the author continues on with another assumption in regard to the superiority of Adams. The author claims that Adams Realty had a revenue that was two times higher than that of Fitch last year. The author then goes on to say that the average price of homes sold was greater last year. Both of these arguments in favor of Adams are convincing, but they are based solely on assumption. The data being used was only collected from the previous year and the author does not state where this information came from. In order for the argument to be validated, the author would need to look at statistics based on empirical evidence of both companies from at least the past five years. Also, the revenue may have been higher because the prices of houses being sold by Adams was higher at average. This means that Fitch may have sold more houses, just at lower price values. If this is the case, the assumption is unwarranted because Fitch is actually selling more houses, just at lower costs.
The final argument posed by the author is particularly problematic. The author claims that from personal experience, his or her home sold faster when he or she listed it with Adams. The author claims that a different home that he or she listed with Fitch took longer. This argument is based on assumption because there is simply no context. The reader is not provided with important information such as the conditions the houses were in and the realty market at the time. Also the houses were sold nine years apart. In order for this assumption to be validated, more context is needed surrounding the conditions of the houses being sold and the market at the time of listing.
Although the author provides some convincing reasons as to why Adams Realty is superior to Fitch Realty, all arguments are based on assumptions. In order for the author’s arguments to be validated, the assumptions he or she makes must first be warranted by the addition of supplementary information needed to support the arguments.
- 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 83
- The following appeared as a recommendation by a committee planning a ten-year budget for the city of Calatrava."The birthrate in our city is declining: in fact, last year's birthrate was only one-half that of five years ago. Thus the number of students en 63
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 29 15
No. of Words: 539 350
No. of Characters: 2521 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.818 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.677 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.481 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.586 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.284 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.517 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.473 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.135 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...st be clarified and proved warranted. In theory, more workers may seem desirab...
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Line 3, column 228, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...Realty is superior. In reality, this is a assumption made by the author because t...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...sed on the number of employees alone. Furthermore, the author continues on wit...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ing more houses, just at lower costs. The final argument posed by the author i...
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Line 7, column 183, 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.
...er when he or she listed it with Adams. The author claims that a different home tha...
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Line 7, column 473, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...e in and the realty market at the time. Also the houses were sold nine years apart. ...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nd the market at the time of listing. Although the author provides some convin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, if, look, may, so, then, as to, at least, such as, in regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 42.0 19.6327345309 214% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 55.5748502994 131% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2609.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 539.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84044526902 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62955844272 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.395176252319 0.468620217663 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 816.3 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 16.0 8.76447105788 183% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 19.7664670659 147% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.4788723678 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.9655172414 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5862068966 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58620689655 5.70786347227 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162386631446 0.218282227539 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579629337185 0.0743258471296 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0884896017209 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116949455301 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0408905734986 0.0628817314937 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.