The author of the presented article argues that global warming and subsequent melting of arctic ice is the cause of declining arctic deer populations. He believes that melting sea ice is affecting their migration pattern which is the cause of decline in population. The arguments seem cogent at the face value but the underlying assumptions may prove the conclusion to be fallacious.
The author cites reports from hunters as the evidence for supporting his claim of fall in deer population. It is plausible that the deer have shifted to a different island unknown to hunters which will lead in underestimation of their population by hunters. The argument that deer population is declining cannot be warranted by mere reports from deer hunters. Deer population should be assessed by a scientific demographic exercise.
To establish the link between falling population and global warming author cites the recent global warming trends which coincide with the declining deer population. Just because two events are coinciding doesn’t mean one is the cause of other. A new disease might have originated among arctic deer which is causing this decline. It is plausible that the predator population might have increased leading to faster killing of deer. A falling population can probably be a result of reckless hunting by hunters shifting the blame on global warming.
Author concludes that sea ice melting is leading to change in migration patterns of deer. In the process he assumes the sea ice melt is occurring in the habitat of arctic deer. There is a possibility that the northern areas of Arctic are still not affected by global warming. We need more information regarding the weather of the habitat of arctic deer to draw any conclusion. Even if sea ice melts arctic deer may have ability to swim keep their migration patterns intact. Information regarding the distances between islands and their geography would help in better assessing the claim. The argument that migration is necessary for deer survival is fallacious as the global warming would lead to increased heating making the island more suitable for vegetation growth eliminating the need for migration.
Conclusively, the author does not provide persuasive arguments to strengthen his claim. With each enumerated argument being potentially unwarranted, the conclusion which is based on such a` inconclusive argument is not tenable.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'still', 'then']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.290953545232 0.25644967241 113% => OK
Verbs: 0.18337408313 0.15541462614 118% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0977995110024 0.0836205057962 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0293398533007 0.0520304965353 56% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0268948655257 0.0272364105082 99% => OK
Prepositions: 0.124694376528 0.125424944231 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0709046454768 0.0416121511921 170% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.83042769941 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0244498777506 0.026700313972 92% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.102689486553 0.113004496875 91% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0244498777506 0.0255425247493 96% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0146699266504 0.0127820249294 115% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2428.0 2731.13054187 89% => OK
No of words: 382.0 446.07635468 86% => OK
Chars per words: 6.35602094241 6.12365571057 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.57801047555 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.429319371728 0.378187486979 114% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.335078534031 0.287650121315 116% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.232984293194 0.208842608468 112% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.170157068063 0.135150697306 126% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83042769941 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 207.018472906 89% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48167539267 0.469332199767 103% => OK
Word variations: 51.305122635 52.1807786196 98% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.039408867 105% => OK
Sentence length: 18.1904761905 23.2022227129 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.1382410375 57.7814097925 59% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.619047619 141.986410481 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1904761905 23.2022227129 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.285714285714 0.724660767414 39% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 51.6983295936 51.9672348444 99% => OK
Elegance: 2.0306122449 1.8405768891 110% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.445648127822 0.441005458295 101% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.113369293843 0.135418324435 84% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0830402814562 0.0829849096947 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.547433935588 0.58762219726 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.130793268053 0.147661913831 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.17691921706 0.193483328276 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664436317882 0.0970749176394 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.36450740026 0.42659136922 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0845466075626 0.0774707102158 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.293951229072 0.312017818177 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0745741858863 0.0698173142475 107% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.82512315271 166% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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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