The following appeared as part of a column in a popular entertainment magazine.
"The producers of the forthcoming movie 3003 will be most likely to maximize their profits if they are willing to pay Robin Good several million dollars to star in it even though that amount is far more than any other person involved with the movie will make. After all, Robin has in the past been paid a similar amount to work in several films that were very financially successful."
The argument claims that the movie 3003 will maximize the profit of the producers if Robin Good stars in it. The magazine claims that paying several million dollars to Robin Good is reasonable since he will make the movie successful as other movies he has participated in. Stated in this way, the argument fails to mention several key factors, on the basis of which it could be evaluated. The statement relies on an unstated assumption that the appearance of Robin Good in the movie is the key factor of financial success and unreliable logic that several million dollars is worth paying him for this movie. Hence, the argument is weak, unconvincing and not well reasoned.
First, the argument readily assumes that the movie would be a great success if Robin Good acts in it, since the other movies where Robin has been in were very financially successful. This assumption is problematic and not substantiated. Stated in the passage, it seems that Robin Good is the only factor that determine the success of the movie. However, there could be other more important factors that can influence financial success of the movie, such as sufficient budget for the movie production, director of the movie, and economic environment for the movie market. If other movies that Robin Good has starred in meet these requirements but the movie 3003 does not, the financial success is hard to assure this time. The argument could have been much more reasonable if it explicitly stated that why the movie would be successful if Robin Good stars in it.
Second, the argument claims that the producers of the movie 3003 should pay several million dollars to Robin Good to cast Robin Good him since he was paid a similar amount to work in the other successful movies. This is again a weak and unsupported claim as the statement never mention that whether Robin would do the similar job in the movie 3003 as in other financially successful movies. For example, if Robin is only required to show up only few scenes in the movie 3003 while he had acted most part of the film in other movies, it would not be reasonable to pay him millions of dollars to him this time. The author should have provided work load for Robin Good in the movie 3003 compared to that of his other movies to strenghten the reason for such enormous payment.
In conclusion, the argument fails to explicitly illustrate neither why the movie 3003 would be financially successful if Robin Good acts in the movie, nor whether Robin is worth millions of dollars for the movie. If the argument answered to the questions raised in the above essay providing several specific examples, it could be much more convincing and persuasive.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.243460764588 0.25644967241 95% => OK
Verbs: 0.138832997988 0.15541462614 89% => OK
Adjectives: 0.106639839034 0.0836205057962 128% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0442655935614 0.0520304965353 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0342052313883 0.0272364105082 126% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.134808853119 0.125424944231 107% => OK
Participles: 0.0362173038229 0.0416121511921 87% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.50913232409 2.79052419416 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0261569416499 0.026700313972 98% => OK
Particles: 0.00201207243461 0.001811407834 111% => OK
Determiners: 0.120724346076 0.113004496875 107% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0281690140845 0.0255425247493 110% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0120724346076 0.0127820249294 94% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2683.0 2731.13054187 98% => OK
No of words: 462.0 446.07635468 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.80735930736 6.12365571057 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.57801047555 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.30303030303 0.378187486979 80% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.231601731602 0.287650121315 81% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.158008658009 0.208842608468 76% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.101731601732 0.135150697306 75% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50913232409 2.79052419416 90% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 207.018472906 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.380952380952 0.469332199767 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 42.0003718107 52.1807786196 80% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.039408867 85% => OK
Sentence length: 27.1764705882 23.2022227129 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.7550124614 57.7814097925 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 157.823529412 141.986410481 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1764705882 23.2022227129 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.705882352941 0.724660767414 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 50.3366437484 51.9672348444 97% => OK
Elegance: 1.90740740741 1.8405768891 104% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.515236692042 0.441005458295 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.160828442393 0.135418324435 119% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0792492031547 0.0829849096947 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.652586970662 0.58762219726 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.165922942526 0.147661913831 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.276016407566 0.193483328276 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110670001703 0.0970749176394 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.652413020167 0.42659136922 153% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0563129828244 0.0774707102158 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.438068194585 0.312017818177 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0458578245161 0.0698173142475 66% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.33743842365 132% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.82512315271 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 10.0 6.46551724138 155% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.82389162562 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => 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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Note: This is not the final score. 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.