The following argument was made in a newspaper editorial:
“The autonomy of any country is based on the strength of its borders; if the number of illegal immigrants entering a country cannot be checked, both its economy and national identity are endangered. Because illegal immigrants pose such threats, every effort must be made to return them to their country of origin.”
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 argument made in the newspaper editorial by the author is that illegal immigrants should be made to return to their country of origin. The reason the author gave is that both the country's economy and national identity is endangered if the illegal immigrants are not checked. Also since the autonomy of the country is based on the strength of it's borders, illegal immigrants pose a threat. The argument at first looks convincing, but on studying we discover a lot of loopholes.
The first loophole is that the author assumes the autonomy of the country is based on the strength of its borders. But this is just one of the many reasons on which the autonomy can be based. It very much also depends on the people ruling the country. Also what laws are followed in the country is another factor in autonomy. Thus there are various factors on which the autonomy of any country is based.
The second loophole is that the author assumes that if the illegal immigrants entering the country cannot be checked, both its economy and national identity is endangered. But the author misses the point that the economy is not dependent on the immigrants. It depends on the people of the country and the status of the markets. If the immigrants later become the citizens of author's country then the national identity would not be endangered.
The third loophole is that the author assumes that all illegal immigrants pose a threat to the author's nation. But some immigrants might even contribute to their economy. People immigrate because they see a better future in other country and where they can be successful so if they are let in author's country it might be beneficial to them. Another reason why people migrate is because there is less scope in their country of origin.
The argument would be strengthened if the author provides some strong reasons and proof of those reasons on the basis of which he concluded that the illegal immigrants should be sent back to their country of origin. As it stands however the argument is flawed.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 236, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nomy and national identity is endangered if the illegal immigrants are not checke...
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Line 3, column 253, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...pends on the people ruling the country. Also what laws are followed in the country i...
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Line 3, column 327, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... country is another factor in autonomy. Thus there are various factors on which the ...
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Line 5, column 329, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... country and the status of the markets. If the immigrants later become the citizen...
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Line 7, column 96, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...illegal immigrants pose a threat to the authors nation. But some immigrants might even ...
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Line 7, column 423, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...use there is less scope in their country of origin. The argument would be stre...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'third', 'thus']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.232620320856 0.25644967241 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.176470588235 0.15541462614 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0614973262032 0.0836205057962 74% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0454545454545 0.0520304965353 87% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0454545454545 0.0272364105082 167% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.133689839572 0.125424944231 107% => OK
Participles: 0.0534759358289 0.0416121511921 129% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.48836221116 2.79052419416 89% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0160427807487 0.026700313972 60% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.157754010695 0.113004496875 140% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.024064171123 0.0255425247493 94% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0160427807487 0.0127820249294 126% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2036.0 2731.13054187 75% => OK
No of words: 351.0 446.07635468 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.80056980057 6.12365571057 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.57801047555 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.378917378917 0.378187486979 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.293447293447 0.287650121315 102% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.162393162393 0.208842608468 78% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0683760683761 0.135150697306 51% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48836221116 2.79052419416 89% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 207.018472906 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.39886039886 0.469332199767 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 40.2297143506 52.1807786196 77% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 18.4736842105 23.2022227129 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4357550866 57.7814097925 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.157894737 141.986410481 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4736842105 23.2022227129 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.578947368421 0.724660767414 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 3.58251231527 167% => OK
Readability: 47.8184135553 51.9672348444 92% => OK
Elegance: 1.57 1.8405768891 85% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.693275072263 0.441005458295 157% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.179260839757 0.135418324435 132% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0841876803047 0.0829849096947 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.636477292153 0.58762219726 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.162706702298 0.147661913831 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.325956743804 0.193483328276 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.151456980139 0.0970749176394 156% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.496081040145 0.42659136922 116% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.153181758135 0.0774707102158 198% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.508320549242 0.312017818177 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.14190594849 0.0698173142475 203% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.33743842365 36% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.82512315271 187% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.82389162562 212% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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