9月23日的Argument，请有空的朋友互改:)

patrickgmail

1.    The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to afriend.
"Ofthe two leading real estate firms in our town—Adams Realty and FitchRealty—Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; incontrast, 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 salesthat averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adamssell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it tookmore than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed itwith Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your homequickly 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 theseassumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptionsprove unwarranted.
我的文章：
word版看得比较舒服，谢谢指正逻辑思路和各类错误。

竹林中人

The argument that the Adams estate firm can aid customers to sell their houses fast together with a good price than Fitch is not entirely logically convincing since it is rife with three certain crucial assumptions and flaws.
  First, the argument assumes that the amount of agent and whether they are fulltime are the conclusive factors for selling houses. For example, Adams has 40 agents while Fitch only has 25 agents, worse still, mostly consisted of halftime. Thus, the author concludes that Adams sells well than Fitch. Even supposing the amount and working form are truly decisive factors. However, the argument ignores the quality and efficiency of the agents. Is it necessary for a superior real estate firms to have more agents for a better selling? Maybe Fitch has the most hard working and professional agents in the market though they are parttime, Fitch can be at greater advantages selling houses. For instance, if an agent in Fitch sells average 40 houses in good price per week while an Adam’s agent sells merely 5 houses per week in poor prices. What is the result? Obviously, people would be likely to choose the Fitch instead. Indeed author’s premise is not an effective back to the argument.
 
Second, the author implies that Adams’ revenue last year was twice as high as much than Fitch, including a higher average home sale. It omits, however, other factors of a good price on an individual house selling. For example, the conditions and surroundings of a house could much influence the price as well. Perhaps the most of the houses Adams sold last year were in good conditions. Even the conditions of houses selling last year were the same between Adam and Fitch. It cannot be presumptive to say that this year Adam firm still performs as well as last year. Also, Fitch could have some strategies to increase their revenue in coming years.漏了个总结句
 
Finally, author gives his/her own example that Adams sells faster to strengthen the argument in more details. It refers that Fitch sold his house for more than four months ten years ago in contrast Adams sold author’s another house only one month last year. The argument, however, never addresses the other house selling conditions we just mentioned in the second flaw. More severely, the author makes an analogy assumption that the market situation and demand etc. in ten years ago are the same as last year. Consequently, the author does not effectively show the selling speed between two firms in a comparable way.
 
Thus, the argument is weak with its supporting ideas. The evidence that amount of the agent, firm’s revenue and selling speed between Adams and Fitch in dissimilar years does little to prove that using Adams is surely a good way to sell houses fast and in good prices. Ultimately, the argument might have been strengthened if the author compares Adam to Fitch with same conditions and the same time, showing more cogent cases that the agents in Adams can make higher prices on selling house.

竹林中人

蛮喜欢这种argu，还是习惯直接看，所以还是给你粘贴上了

patrickgmail

谢谢啦，竹林，这一篇有改动吗？

竹林中人

没有改动的