The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a journal on environmental issues.
"Over the past year, the Crust Copper Company (CCC) has purchased over 10,000 square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia. Mining copper on this land will inevitably result in pollution and, since West Fredonia is the home of several endangered animal species, in environmental disaster. But such disasters can be prevented if consumers simply refuse to purchase products that are made with CCC's copper unless the company abandons its mining plans."
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.
It seems to be logical, at first glance, to agree with the idea that as long as customers refute to buy CCC’s copper products, the company forced to stop its environmental disasters activities. However, the argument relies on less credible evidence or even doubtful assumptions to consolidate its stance. In what follows, I will elaborate on them in details.
The 1st problem with the argument is polluting especial parts of the West Fredonia tropical lands does not mean that all of the West Fredonia lands have been affected. That is, maybe West Fredonia land is an enormous area, and purchasin...
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 557 350
No. of Characters: 2876 1500
No. of Different Words: 233 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.858 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.163 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.731 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 223 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 167 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 121 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 68 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.208 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.817 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.708 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.183 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 118, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...donia tropical lands does not mean that all of the West Fredonia lands have been affected....
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...angered animals in West Fredonia land. it could not provide more information abou...
^^
Line 3, column 123, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'effect'?
Suggestion: effect
...ects on particular species and does not affect on the at risks animal. Maybe copper has d...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 522, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'export'.
Suggestion: export
...ybe there are CCC'S company try to exports its products to other marketing such as...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 291, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'knowing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: knowing
.... To better assessment, we also require to know more about the accuracy of the claims t...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 451, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'recommended knowing'.
Suggestion: recommended knowing
...e the argument as a whole it is greatly recommended to know various usage of cooper in the domestic...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, in contrast, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 55.5748502994 146% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2953.0 2260.96107784 131% => OK
No of words: 556.0 441.139720559 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31115107914 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85588840946 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.851079114 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.435251798561 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 930.6 705.55239521 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1013368825 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.12 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.24 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.12 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224876058032 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0680273600286 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540445367711 0.0701772020484 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120753991296 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0590735448322 0.0628817314937 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 98.500998004 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 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.