The following opinion was provided in a letter to the editor of a national aeronautics magazine:
“Manned space flight is costly and dangerous. Moreover, the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites has demonstrated that a great deal of useful information can be gathered without the costs and risks associated with sending men and women into space. Therefore, we should invest our resources in unmanned space flight."
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
The study of space has become one of the most interesting topics of the modern era. It is filled with a myriad number of secrets which are yet to be disclosed. In a search for the solution of innumerable unanswered questions, it is very important that studies are conducted. For this purpose, space vehicles have to be sent in space for research purposes. Now the question arises whether these vehicles should be manned or unmanned. It would be of great advantage that if these vehicles were accompanied by man, to capture information which machines can’t. The author mentions that sending unmanned vehicles are good, but he bases his conclusion on various assumptions.
Firstly, the author assumes that the flights are dangerous based on a few experiences. However, he has no significant data to support his argument. Manned flights have been successful a lot many times. Instead of basing his decision on a few failures, the failures which caused the journey, should be examined and must be improved.
Secondly, the author mentions about the cost of manned flight. For an unmanned flight, the technology required costs a great amount as compared to manned flight. Developing artificial intelligence is more costly than sending trained people on flight.
Also, the author states that the results of unmanned flights is better. However he has no idea about what information would manned flight give the department. It is very important to realize that technology is fixed and has its own limitation. However, a human has live intelligence and can improvise at every step. Hence, manned flight is more efficient in terms of information and also about the authenticity of the information received.
Hence, the author should not make short term conclusions based on a very little information. He must take all factors into consideration before making a decision.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1576.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 303.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20132013201 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85103055293 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.564356435644 0.468620217663 120% => OK
syllable_count: 494.1 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 22.8473053892 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 21.7353698808 57.8364921388 38% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.0476190476 119.503703932 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.4285714286 23.324526521 62% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.47619047619 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164705535505 0.218282227539 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0503401767919 0.0743258471296 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526963563944 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0878862997706 0.128457276422 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0637622754291 0.0628817314937 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 48.3550499002 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 12.197005988 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.1389221557 68% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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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