"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.
In the given letter which was written by homeowner to his friend, the homeowner suggests to his friend that if he wants to sell his home quick and at a good price, then out of Adams realty and Fitch Realty, Adams realty would be the one to choose. He suggests this based on factors such as number of agents, revenue and sales and time to sell the house. But the author states these statements without proper evidence.
First of All, the homeowner makes the assumption that more number of real estate agents is directly proportional to the quality of the real estate firm. However, we also have to consider the efficiency of agents rather than the total number. For Example, an efficient agent of Fitch realty can perform better than several agents of Adams realty which in turn affects the quality of the firm. If this is true, then the house owner’s argument is considerably weakened.
Secondly, the house owner also believes that averaging more in home sales is directly proportional to the ability of the firm to sell each house at a good price. The homeowner undermines the possibility where the average is high only due to a small portion of the house whose prices have drastically increased the average of Adams realty. There is also a possibility that Adams realty has sold only handful number of houses , though high in average sales but actually low when considered the fact that these houses were actually much more worth than the prices which they were actually sold at. In contrast, Fitch realty has sold a large number of houses with reasonable price. If these possibilities be true, then the homeowner’s argument holds no water.
Finally, homeowner also makes an assumption that the real estate market from 10 years ago is comparable with the real estate market last year. It is possible that Fitch realty has improved a lot in the course of 10 years and actually solidified their strategies and upgraded their systems in such a way that currently they are selling houses in 2 weeks’ time after being listed. The demand in market has changed a lot, so it is a mistake to compare markets 10 years apart, which yields wrong results. If any of the above examples hold merit, it strongly weakens the house owners argument that Adams Realty can sell the houses faster than Fitch Realty.
In Conclusion, the argument as it stands is flawed. However, If the house owner can provide more details and statistics in a much more researched manner it will be helpful to evaluate the claims of house owner which as of now stand unwarranted.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 442 350
No. of Characters: 2058 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.585 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.656 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.36 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.556 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.529 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.944 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.431 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
In the given letter which was written by...
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Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...se statements without proper evidence. First of All, the homeowner makes the as...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r’s argument is considerably weakened. Secondly, the house owner also believes ...
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Line 3, column 432, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...y has sold only handful number of houses , though high in average sales but actual...
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Line 3, column 639, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... at. In contrast, Fitch realty has sold a large number of houses with reasonable price. If these ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2113.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 442.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78054298643 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44333693706 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470588235294 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 658.8 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.5413140365 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.388888889 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5555555556 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.77777777778 5.70786347227 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267959793569 0.218282227539 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0812008094098 0.0743258471296 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0805098523276 0.0701772020484 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151218798848 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0859570713977 0.0628817314937 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.