Of the two leading real estate firms in ourtown—Adams Realty and Fitch Realty—Adams Realty isclearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; incontrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only inpart-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year wastwice as high as that of Fitch and included home salesthat averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000.Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten yearsago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more thanfour months to sell; last year, when I sold another home,I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, ifyou 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 this argument, the homeowner claimed that if one wants to sell his or her home quickly and get a good price one should go to Adams realty. To support this claim the homeowner cites following facts. First, Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch only has 25. Besides, Adams 's revenue was higher than Fitch. Based on these facts the homeowner asserts that Admas is superior. The homeowner also points out that with Adam one could sell quickly and get good price than Fitch. However the argument relies on series unsubstantiated assumptions, which rend it unconvincing as it stands.
First of all, the homeowner assumes that the more agents a company has the more superior the company is. However, the author provides no evidence that this is the case. It is possible that the management of Fitch is more effective than Adams so that the company did't need too many people, as Adams did, to keep the firm running. In addition, the fact that Adams last year revenue was twice as high as Fitch does not necessarily mean that Adam is superior to Fitch. It is entirely possible that Fitch focuses on the apartment that is comparatively cheep than Adams. Without ruling out these possible scenarios, the homeowner cannot convince me that Adams is superior.
Even if, Adams is superior. The author could not justifiably rely on the mere fact that the home listed in Adams recently took less time to sell than the home listed in Fitch ten years ago, to support the claim that with Adams one could sell more quickly. Only based on the assumption that all conditions have remain unchanged over ten years. Nevertheless the assumption is unwarranted because things rarely remain the same over extended period years. For example, perhaps there was suffering a great economic depression ten years ago, and the house market was anemic. Accordingly people could hardly afford a new house, but now the economy is revived. Or perhaps, as a result the influx of immigrants the house demand is increased significantly .Or perhaps the recently sold home lies in an advantageous geographical location that is needed by lots of people. Thus, without providing more information about the home condition and the house market, the homeowner cannot convince me that by using Adam a home could be sold quickly.
Finally, the homeowner failed to substantiate the assertion that by using Adams one could get a good price. Neither of above assumptions serves to this claim. The homeowner should list some critical studies or data before making such an assertion.
In conclusion, the claim that if one wants to sell home quickly and at a good price,he or she should use Adams Realty is not well supported. To bolster the claim the homeowner should provide more evidence to substantiate that the Adam is superior to Fitch. Besides, to convince me that using Adams one could sell quickly and get a good price the homeowner should provide more information and credible statistic data about that.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... quickly and get good price than Fitch. However the argument relies on series unsubstan...
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Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'cheeped'.
Suggestion: cheeped
... on the apartment that is comparatively cheep than Adams. Without ruling out these po...
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Suggestion:
...ot convince me that Adams is superior. Even if, Adams is superior. The author c...
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Message: Use past participle here: 'remained'.
Suggestion: remained
...the assumption that all conditions have remain unchanged over ten years. Nevertheless ...
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Suggestion: Nevertheless,
...s have remain unchanged over ten years. Nevertheless the assumption is unwarranted because t...
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Suggestion: Accordingly,
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Suggestion: Or
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Discourse Markers used:
['accordingly', 'also', 'besides', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'for example', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'in contrast', 'as a result', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.229390681004 0.25644967241 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.168458781362 0.15541462614 108% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0806451612903 0.0836205057962 96% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0806451612903 0.0520304965353 155% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0197132616487 0.0272364105082 72% => OK
Prepositions: 0.114695340502 0.125424944231 91% => OK
Participles: 0.0376344086022 0.0416121511921 90% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.54756264463 2.79052419416 91% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0250896057348 0.026700313972 94% => OK
Particles: 0.00358422939068 0.001811407834 198% => OK
Determiners: 0.111111111111 0.113004496875 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0250896057348 0.0255425247493 98% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00537634408602 0.0127820249294 42% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2984.0 2731.13054187 109% => OK
No of words: 504.0 446.07635468 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.92063492063 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.333333333333 0.378187486979 88% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.238095238095 0.287650121315 83% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.170634920635 0.208842608468 82% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.107142857143 0.135150697306 79% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54756264463 2.79052419416 91% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 207.018472906 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462301587302 0.469332199767 99% => OK
Word variations: 53.2367674983 52.1807786196 102% => OK
How many sentences: 27.0 20.039408867 135% => OK
Sentence length: 18.6666666667 23.2022227129 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1871620029 57.7814097925 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.518518519 141.986410481 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6666666667 23.2022227129 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 3.58251231527 251% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 42.4761904762 51.9672348444 82% => OK
Elegance: 1.42 1.8405768891 77% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245636632812 0.441005458295 56% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.11864126843 0.135418324435 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0845676240985 0.0829849096947 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.512652251199 0.58762219726 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.165386586389 0.147661913831 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0983928350358 0.193483328276 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0898895320548 0.0970749176394 93% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.43133083396 0.42659136922 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0823676455337 0.0774707102158 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166302890419 0.312017818177 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615753772235 0.0698173142475 88% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.33743842365 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.82512315271 145% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 6.46551724138 170% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 14.657635468 136% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.