“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.”
The homeowner in his letter argues that Adams Realty is superior to Fitch Realty and that if his friend wants to sell his house quickly and at a good price, he should list his house at Adams Realty instead of Fitch Realty. However, his argument is based on numerous assumptions.
First, the homeowner says that Adams Realty is superior to Fitch Realty because it has more number of real estate agents and generates more revenue with greater average home sales. But this criteria may not be enough to prove that Adams Realty is better than Fitch Realty. For example, it may be plausible that Fitch Realty uses some more advanced computational logistics which enables it to work with lesser number of real estate agents and generate more profits overall despite its lesser revenue. In such a case, Fitch Realty is superior to and more efficient than Adams Realty and so he needs more elaborate metrics to prove that Adams Realty is a superior corporation. If his assumption that Adams Realty is superior proves unwarranted, like in the given example, then he may wrongly advise his friend to list his house with an inferior corporation and his friend may not get a good deal that his house deserves.
Second, the homeowner says that selling his house via Fitch Realty ten years ago took took more time in comparison to selling his house via Adams Realty during last year and if his friend wants to sell his house quickly, it should be listed with Adams Realty. However, we should note that ten years is a long time and it is possible that Fitch Realty was slow at that time but since then it has changed its strategy and has significantly improved recently even more than Adams Realty about which the homeowner may not be aware. For his assumption to be valid, he should compare two similar houses sold during the recent times and then draw a conclusion which one is quicker. So if his assumption goes wrong then he may be incorrectly advising his friend and his friend may not be able to sell his home quickly if he lists it with Adams Realty.
Finally, the homeowner believes that if his friend wants to sell his house at a good price, he should go for Adams Realty. Even if we assume his belief that Adams Realty is superior, it is still possible that listing the house at Adams Realty may not get his friend a better deal than Fitch Realty in practice. For instance, it may be possible that Adams Realty has better expertise in the most of the other areas of the town but not in the area where the house is to be sold. Fitch Realty's real estate agents may have more knowledge related to the interested people willing to buy a house in that area at a high price. So even though Adams Realty may be overall better but in the area where the house is located, Fitch Realty may be better at getting the house sold at a good price. If this is the case, the advice of the homeowner may result in his friend not getting a better deal on his house in comparison to what he would have got if he had listed it on Fitch Realty.
Therefore, the homeowner has made several assumptions in his argument that Adams Realty is better than Fitch Realty and that if his friend wants to sell his house quickly and at a good price, he should go for Adams Realty. But he needs to provide more detail to convincingly justify his assumptions because if those assumptions prove unwarranted, his friend may not be able to sell his house quickly and at a good price he deserves.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 82, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: took
...is house via Fitch Realty ten years ago took took more time in comparison to selling his ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'therefore', 'for example', 'for instance']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.25223880597 0.25644967241 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.153731343284 0.15541462614 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0955223880597 0.0836205057962 114% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0567164179104 0.0520304965353 109% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0850746268657 0.0272364105082 312% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.123880597015 0.125424944231 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0268656716418 0.0416121511921 65% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.31447210125 2.79052419416 83% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0313432835821 0.026700313972 117% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.065671641791 0.113004496875 58% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0313432835821 0.0255425247493 123% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0089552238806 0.0127820249294 70% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3467.0 2731.13054187 127% => OK
No of words: 627.0 446.07635468 141% => OK
Chars per words: 5.52950558214 6.12365571057 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00399520894 4.57801047555 109% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.304625199362 0.378187486979 81% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.170653907496 0.287650121315 59% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.11004784689 0.208842608468 53% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0637958532695 0.135150697306 47% => More words length more than 8 chars wanted.
Word Length SD: 2.31447210125 2.79052419416 83% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 207.018472906 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.314194577352 0.469332199767 67% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 38.9651299213 52.1807786196 75% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 33.0 23.2022227129 142% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.4828007148 57.7814097925 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 182.473684211 141.986410481 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.0 23.2022227129 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.684210526316 0.724660767414 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 50.0653907496 51.9672348444 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.36363636364 1.8405768891 74% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.403523276544 0.441005458295 92% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.203900733657 0.135418324435 151% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0898207792883 0.0829849096947 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.63608511805 0.58762219726 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.132121113351 0.147661913831 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.210800661737 0.193483328276 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102643522765 0.0970749176394 106% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.544821791164 0.42659136922 128% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.021069987674 0.0774707102158 27% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.309923786901 0.312017818177 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0763129310308 0.0698173142475 109% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.33743842365 204% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.87684729064 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 17.0 6.46551724138 263% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 5.36822660099 19% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 14.657635468 130% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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