"A nationwide survey reveals that the two most-desired home features are a large family room and a large, well-appointed kitchen. A number of homes in our area built by our competitor Domus Construction have such features and have sold much faster and at significantly higher prices than the national average. To boost sales and profits, we should increase the size of the family rooms and kitchens in all the homes we build and should make state-of-the-art kitchens a standard feature. Moreover, our larger family rooms and kitchens can come at the expense of the dining room, since many of our recent buyers say they do not need a separate dining room for family meals."
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 this argument the author urge to consider that in order to increase the sales of the homes at the higher price construction companies need to construct large living area followed by well-furnished kitchen. To support this recommendation, he cited that a nation-wide survey reveals these result and also Domus construstion sold their homes faster and at higher price following the result. I find this argument unconvincing and cogent for some reasons.
First, the author states that construction industries should have a paradigm shift of building large family room and well -appointed kitchens in order to increase their profits. This claim cannot be accepted as it stands. The increment in he profit of Domus construction might be the reason of procurement of the expensive land they decided for building the house as land prices significantly affect the selling price of the home. The expense related to interior of the house can not be compared to the total house selling price as land price is, almost, 40 percent of the cost the house need to be sold. Also, the 1000 sq yard of land cost in california is much more expensive than the same size land in New Mexico. Interior of the house depends upon the people living in the it. A house for two people will not be needing the large living. While the brief statement of building the large living space and kitchen seems to be a robust idea, it deficit between what states and what is there to evidence for it and is too large to be overlooked. This ultimately cause the week argument that wuill count against author conclusion.
Second, author hypothesizd that if Domus contruction can have higher profit so as other construction companies. This assumption is unwarranted. It is equally possible to assume that Domus construction compant only features the home for large family where theer are more then 3 people. Perhaps they deal with large mansion sized home where there is a necessity of large rooms with the selling prices in multimillions as author never mention details about this construction firm. Hence this speculation is overgeneralized and author's argument lack compelling and affluent reasoning to convince his proposal.
However, it is true that many families in america likes to settle with spacious living rooms and furnished kitchen but the survey never mentioned which country does it belongs. Also, there is no data about the qualification of the participants of the survey as the requirements are interior designs are different for urban and rural area due to space constraints. Hence author is flawed in a way that he fails to substantiate his conclusion with the strong evidence and it teems with poor reasoning. The careful perusing of the evident provided in the the argument reveals that many questions have been left unanswered without which the reader cannot consider it to be consequential.
In conclusion, this is not a strong argument. To bolster it, the author, must as very least, provide the concrete evidence regarding his claim, perhaps by the help of individual surveys for different cities in order to know the whether there is a real need for the large and spacious living room and a fully furnished kitchen Which will strengthen the author's claim.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: To support this recommendation, he cited that a nation-wide survey reveals these result and also Domus construstion sold their homes faster and at higher price following the result.
Error: construstion Suggestion: construction
Sentence: This ultimately cause the week argument that wuill count against author conclusion.
Error: wuill Suggestion: while
Sentence: Second, author hypothesizd that if Domus contruction can have higher profit so as other construction companies.
Error: contruction Suggestion: construction
Error: hypothesizd Suggestion: hypothesize
Sentence: It is equally possible to assume that Domus construction compant only features the home for large family where theer are more then 3 people.
Error: compant Suggestion: company
Error: theer Suggestion: cheer
Sentence: Perhaps they deal with large mansion sized home where there is a necessity of large rooms with the selling prices in multimillions as author never mention details about this construction firm.
Error: multimillions Suggestion: No alternate word
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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: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 540 350
No. of Characters: 2664 1500
No. of Different Words: 252 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.821 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.933 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.7 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 184 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.478 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.981 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.522 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.272 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.472 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 243, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'profits'.
Suggestion: profits
...epted as it stands. The increment in he profit of Domus construction might be the reas...
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Line 3, column 774, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'it'?
Suggestion: the; it
...house depends upon the people living in the it. A house for two people will not be nee...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 814, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...the it. A house for two people will not be needing the large living. While the brief stat...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 852, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t be needing the large living. While the brief statement of building the large li...
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Line 3, column 904, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ement of building the large living space and kitchen seems to be a robust idea, i...
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Line 5, column 271, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[2]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...e for large family where theer are more then 3 people. Perhaps they deal with large ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 479, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...n details about this construction firm. Hence this speculation is overgeneralized and...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 169, Rule ID: DOES_NP_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'belong'?
Suggestion: belong
...y never mentioned which country does it belongs. Also, there is no data about the quali...
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Line 7, column 169, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'belong'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: belong
...y never mentioned which country does it belongs. Also, there is no data about the quali...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 365, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...nd rural area due to space constraints. Hence author is flawed in a way that he fails...
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Line 7, column 549, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...ful perusing of the evident provided in the the argument reveals that many questions ha...
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Line 7, column 549, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...ful perusing of the evident provided in the the argument reveals that many questions ha...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, look, regarding, second, so, then, well, while, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2718.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 540.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03333333333 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82057051367 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75412149064 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 204.123752495 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481481481481 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 834.3 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.6890473965 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.173913043 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4782608696 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.82608695652 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.197904860521 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.055102520911 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589787105892 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113859406393 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0457270767577 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 98.500998004 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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