The following appeared in a memo from the president of Bower Builders, a company that constructs new homes.
"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.
The president of Bower Builder claims that they should increase the size of the family room and kitchens based on a nationwide survey in order to sell more homes but fails to acknowledge certain crucial factors.
First of all, it is proffered that their competitor, Domus Construction have built homes with large family rooms and well equipped kitchens that has sold much faster and in high rates and Bower Builder should follow their footsteps. But, the author fails to recognize that the homes built by Domus Construction may have other enticing features that led people to buy their homes. Also, the fact that Domus Construction may have a reputable name in the market and people trust them is discounted. These fallacies render this claim unsound.
Second of all, it is presumed that the sales and profits will boost up once Bower Builders incorporates large family rooms and state-of-the-art kitchens in their homes. However, there could be various other reasons for people to not buy the houses built by Bower Builders. There may be quality issues in their construction or they use substandard finishes that damage or wear out easily. Also, there is a chance that the buyers that Bower Builders are already catering to may not like this enhancement and all the sales will be lost. Besides, there can be no guarantee of that since no information is provided on the type of people or areas that both of these firms cater to.
Lastly, the writer posits, on the basis of the recent sales that in order to accommodate a larger family room and kitchen, they should reduce the size of the dining room or not have it altogether, since the recent buyers said that they do not need a separate dining room for family meals. However, the fact that a dining area might be needed for the guests or that completely cutting the dining room may not tempt the buyers at all to make the purchase is not taken into account.
Therefore, the writer fails to make a cogent case that the size of the living rooms and kitchens should be increased and homes to have a well-appointed kitchen.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- it is for recent buyers only. maybe future buyers change their ideas.
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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: 13 15
No. of Words: 361 350
No. of Characters: 1680 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.359 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.654 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.365 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 106 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 61 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 43 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.769 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.067 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.923 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.351 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.614 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, lastly, may, second, so, therefore, well, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1726.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 360.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79444444444 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47234082113 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.475 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 522.0 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2436865999 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.769230769 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.6923076923 23.324526521 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92307692308 5.70786347227 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229425410433 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0823253915446 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0734211173024 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144030111249 0.128457276422 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0518032543216 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 48.3550499002 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 12.3882235529 137% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.9071856287 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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