SuperCorp recently moved its headquarters to Corporateville. The recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves that Corporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg, the home of SuperCorp's original headquarters. Moreover, Middlesburg is a predominately urban area and according to an employee survey, SuperCorp has determined that its workers prefer to live in an area that is not urban. Finally, Corporateville has lower taxes than Middlesburg, making it not only a safer place to work but also a cheaper one. Therefore, Supercorp clearly made the best decision.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
While SuperCorp may have moved to Coporateville because Corporateville is a safer and cheaper place to live, the argument provided for the conclusion is full of gaps and far reached assumptions.
Argument claims that Coporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg on the basis of the recent surge in number of homeowners in Coporateville. This part of the argument did not take several other factors into account. Firstly, it doesn't say anything about surge in number of homeowners in Middlesburg, maybe there is surge in number of homeowners in both the state, in that case the conclusion drawn here will be wrong. Also, increase in number of homeowners can be for number of other reason instead of Coporateville being superior place than Middlesburg such as investment purposes. Maybe, people are buying houses there simply because its cheap and the prices are supposed to be increased in future, in this case the increase in number of homeowners does not necessarily indicate the superior conditions to live in Coporateville.
There is very less information provided about the survey, it can be misleading to make such conclusions without properly assessing the survey. Employee's answers to the choice between urban and non urban completely depends on context in which the they were asked to choose. Firstly, the question might have not stated the changes that will occur if they switch to non urban place, changes like lower salary, and poorer education for kids, poorer medical facilities. Employee might have answered perfunctorily to this question of choices without considering such changes, in that case the survey is unreliable and any conclusion drawn from such a survey might be misleading. Even if employees want to live in a non urban area, it does not specifically say anything about whether they want to live Coporateville or not. Maybe they do not even consider Coporateville as a non urban place as there is no solid definition for a place to be urban or non-urban.
Finally, argument provides no evidence for Corporateville being the safer place than Middlesburg. Even stating that Corporateville is the cheaper place out of two, just on the basis of lower taxes, is a far reaching assumption. Expenses in life can be because of many factors other than taxes. In a city with metro or similar kind of srvices makes it cheaper to commute which may not be present in Coporateville and hence the commutation might be expensive there. Many other services might not be present in such areas which makes living there more expensive. Even if the place is cheaper, Coporateville still might be a poorer option than Middlesburg from a financial outlook as it also depends on the amount of income both cities has to offer to the residents.
Coporateville might have as its own advantages in term of living conditions but the reasons provided does not corroborate such a conclusion.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not exactly. This survey is only about workers where to live, not about where to work.
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 481 350
No. of Characters: 2382 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.683 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.952 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.871 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 123 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.316 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.888 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.474 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.327 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.559 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.104 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 243, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...other factors into account. Firstly, it doesnt say anything about surge in number of ...
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Line 3, column 274, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...stly, it doesnt say anything about surge in number of homeowners in Middlesburg, ...
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Line 3, column 706, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...the prices are supposed to be increased in future, in this case the increase in number of...
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Line 5, column 243, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'they'?
Suggestion: the; they
... completely depends on context in which the they were asked to choose. Firstly, the ques...
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Line 5, column 494, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...facilities. Employee might have answered perfunctorily to this question of choice...
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Line 7, column 216, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... basis of lower taxes, is a far reaching assumption. Expenses in life can be beca...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, look, may, so, still, while, as to, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2434.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 480.0 441.139720559 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07083333333 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93446651881 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.439583333333 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 784.8 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.2407636548 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.105263158 119.503703932 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2631578947 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.21052631579 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201220378405 0.218282227539 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734944046109 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0834532724749 0.0701772020484 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119964014082 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0809358289434 0.0628817314937 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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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.