The director of the International Health Foundation recently released this announcement:
“A new medical test that allows the early detection of a particular disease will prevent the deaths of people all over the world who would otherwise die from the disease. The test has been extremely effective in allowing doctors to diagnose the disease six months to a year before it would have been spotted by conventional means. As soon as we can institute this test as routine procedure in hospitals around the world, the death rate from this disease will plummet.”
The argument makes a number of unwarranted assumptions the newly proposed medical test that allows for the early detection of a particular disease will prevents deaths of people all over the world which would have otherwise died from the disease. Taken as a whole, these unstated assumptions rendered the argument suspect. Indeed, if these unstated assumptions do not hold true, then the argument totally falls apart.
The argument assumes the test is cheap, affordable and easily available to every patients suffering from the disease all over the world, regardless of their social class. If the test is only available in some part of world and it is inaccessible to other parts, then the there is no evidence that the death rate from the disease will plummet.
The argument fails to address whether or not the disease is curable after successful detection. Even if this is true, there is no mention of planned action for the treatment of the disease. Early detection of the disease only increase survival rate, it is the treatment that determines whether the patient will be cured. If the treatment plans fail, this mean that disease will continue to plague the patients, eventually resulting in their death and consequently rending the early detection of the disease useless.
Lastly, supposing the early detection and solid treatment plans, the arguments still depends on clinicians following precisely test procedure, in addition with accurate interpretation of test results to the patients. An error during the test procedure will invalidate the results, misinterpretation of the results or the lack of patient’s cooperation to the treatment plan, will all impede the the test from fulfilling its purpose of saving lives.
Thus, the argument is not completely sound, the evidences that support the conclusion that the new test will cause death rate to plummet did little to prove the conclusion, as it does not address the already raised assumptions. The argument might have been strengthened if the author showed the worldwide availability of test, address the treatment options, how well the disease respond to said plans and the accuracy of the clinicians and patients when dealing with the test.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 153, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'prevent'
Suggestion: prevent
... detection of a particular disease will prevents deaths of people all over the world whi...
^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...th rate from the disease will plummet. The argument fails to address whether or...
^^^
Line 5, column 31, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...mmet. The argument fails to address whether or not the disease is curable after successful...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 391, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
... to the treatment plan, will all impede the the test from fulfilling its purpose of sav...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 391, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
... to the treatment plan, will all impede the the test from fulfilling its purpose of sav...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, if, lastly, so, still, then, thus, well, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1865.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 355.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25352112676 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76118705229 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.50985915493 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 562.5 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.7521290628 57.8364921388 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.461538462 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3076923077 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07692307692 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308482124535 0.218282227539 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110890418814 0.0743258471296 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11262000329 0.0701772020484 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171403883485 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0601596903132 0.0628817314937 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 153, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'prevent'
Suggestion: prevent
... detection of a particular disease will prevents deaths of people all over the world whi...
^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...th rate from the disease will plummet. The argument fails to address whether or...
^^^
Line 5, column 31, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...mmet. The argument fails to address whether or not the disease is curable after successful...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 391, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
... to the treatment plan, will all impede the the test from fulfilling its purpose of sav...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 391, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
... to the treatment plan, will all impede the the test from fulfilling its purpose of sav...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, if, lastly, so, still, then, thus, well, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1865.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 355.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25352112676 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76118705229 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.50985915493 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 562.5 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.7521290628 57.8364921388 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.461538462 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3076923077 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07692307692 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308482124535 0.218282227539 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110890418814 0.0743258471296 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11262000329 0.0701772020484 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171403883485 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0601596903132 0.0628817314937 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.