Arctic deer live on islands in Canada's arctic regions. They search for food by moving over ice from island to island during the course of the year. Their habitat is limited to areas warm enough to sustain the plants on which they feed and cold enough, at least some of the year, for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands, allowing the deer to travel over it. Unfortunately, according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining. Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the purported decline in deer populations is the result of the deer's being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The passage concludes that the population of Arctic deers in Canada is on the decline because of global warming. However, there are are many assumptions that the author has used to arrive at this conclusion. If these assumptions are not valid, the argument holds but little truth.
It is assumed that the sole reason of decline of deer population is global warming because of which, the sea does not freeze during winter, and hence the deers cannot migrate from island to island in search of food. There is no mention of hunting carried out in the region, even though the reports are collected from local hunters. It is very much likely that the hunters could be killing the deers at a faster pace than they can reproduce and sustain their numbers. The mere fact that the increase in global warming corresponds to the decrease in number of deers does not suffice the argument. The author does not specifically mention the fact that sea in the Canada’s Arctic region does not freeze. It could be that the sea does freeze in this area, but not for the duration of entire winter.
Another assumption is that the deers die of starvation due to lack of food. This is called into question, as warmer climates means more plants and more food for the deers stranded on an island. Deers do not migrate during the summers in the Arctic, as the sea is not frozen. This means that during summers an island can produce enough food for the deers. A similar phenomenon can can occur due to global warming when plants grow in sufficient quantities to prevent death of deers by starvation.
Also, there is no rigorous and reliable report on the number of surviving deers. Local hunters are not a reliable source of information. It could be that the deers are aware of the approaching hunters, and hide at places where hunters cannot approach them. Statistical data on the number of deers can be helpful for objective analysis. Moreover, the report can mention the number of deers found dead due to starvation. Decrease in number of plants or reduction in their growth during winters, can help strengthen the claim. If not many deers are found dead, but only a few can be spotted, could lead us to investigate a new migration pattern of these deers to new islands that have colder climates.
Thus, the argument is based on unreliable reports and various assumptions. Work towards validating these assumptions can establish the veracity of the claim.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: are
...cause of global warming. However, there are are many assumptions that the author has us...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'climates'' or 'climate's'?
Suggestion: climates'; climate's
...This is called into question, as warmer climates means more plants and more food for the...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: can
...ood for the deers. A similar phenomenon can can occur due to global warming when plants...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'thus']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.248927038627 0.25644967241 97% => OK
Verbs: 0.160944206009 0.15541462614 104% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0836909871245 0.0836205057962 100% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0450643776824 0.0520304965353 87% => OK
Pronouns: 0.019313304721 0.0272364105082 71% => OK
Prepositions: 0.150214592275 0.125424944231 120% => OK
Participles: 0.0343347639485 0.0416121511921 83% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.48491891097 2.79052419416 89% => OK
Infinitives: 0.019313304721 0.026700313972 72% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.115879828326 0.113004496875 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0321888412017 0.0255425247493 126% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00858369098712 0.0127820249294 67% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2437.0 2731.13054187 89% => OK
No of words: 422.0 446.07635468 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.77488151659 6.12365571057 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.57801047555 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.36018957346 0.378187486979 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.234597156398 0.287650121315 82% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.135071090047 0.208842608468 65% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0876777251185 0.135150697306 65% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48491891097 2.79052419416 89% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 207.018472906 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462085308057 0.469332199767 98% => OK
Word variations: 50.2959316991 52.1807786196 96% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.039408867 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.347826087 23.2022227129 79% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.6821189195 57.7814097925 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.956521739 141.986410481 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.347826087 23.2022227129 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.391304347826 0.724660767414 54% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 41.8075417268 51.9672348444 80% => OK
Elegance: 1.92380952381 1.8405768891 105% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.406506441363 0.441005458295 92% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.128256535993 0.135418324435 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0924989659511 0.0829849096947 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.560848203157 0.58762219726 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.104335038864 0.147661913831 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1610646785 0.193483328276 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0646572408628 0.0970749176394 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.434946175592 0.42659136922 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.104520141217 0.0774707102158 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.268352925999 0.312017818177 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0642214631059 0.0698173142475 92% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.87684729064 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 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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