The following argument was made in a newspaper editorial:
“The autonomy of any country is based on the strength of its borders; if the number of illegal immigrants entering a country cannot be checked, both its economy and national identity are endangered. Because illegal immigrants pose such threats, every effort must be made to return them to their country of origin.”
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.
The author concludes that the illegal immigrants pose severe threats, so they need to returned to their country of origin at all costs. To justify this conclusion, the author takes note of the autonomy of any country depends on the strength of its borders. I find this argument logically unconvincing in several respects.
First of all, illegal immigrants pose threats to the country, is based upon the assumption that the economy depends on only the amount or percentage of immigrants flooding the country. It is entirely possible that the economy depend on other factors like the population, the resources available in that particular country and many other factors.Hence the author's generalization is unreliable.
Second the author assumes that the national identity is endangered. This assumption is unwarranted. It seems equally reasonable to assume that the majority of the population in the country would still remain the indigenous population and the cultures and traditions of that particular country are in no danger of disappearing or becoming obsolete. Hence it is presumptuous to conclude that the illegal immigrants would pose a problem to the national identity.
Finally, the author uses wrong reversal flaw. It is when the argument that if one part of that sentence is true then the other half is also true. It assumes that if number of immigrants increase then the economy and national identity will also be endangered.
In sum, the argument is defective mainly because the autonomy of the country being based upon the strength of the borders does not support the conclusion that the illegal migrants need to be returned to their country. The argument would be stronger if the author had at the least provided support for the assumptions that the economy and the national identity will be in danger.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 296 350
No. of Characters: 1497 1500
No. of Different Words: 134 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.148 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.057 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.721 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 66 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.629 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.365 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.601 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.048 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 288, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... borders. I find this argument logically unconvincing in several respects. Fir...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Hence
...rticular country and many other factors.Hence the authors generalization is unreliabl...
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Line 3, column 346, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...rticular country and many other factors.Hence the authors generalization is unreliabl...
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Line 3, column 356, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ountry and many other factors.Hence the authors generalization is unreliable. Second...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...r of disappearing or becoming obsolete. Hence it is presumptuous to conclude that the...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...argument is defective mainly because the autonomy of the country being based upon...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, if, second, so, still, then, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1534.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 295.0 441.139720559 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82646824206 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 204.123752495 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.474576271186 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 705.55239521 69% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.444446888 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.571428571 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0714285714 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30117133271 0.218282227539 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0953491664019 0.0743258471296 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0712958432594 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159116824416 0.128457276422 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0481274371161 0.0628817314937 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 98.500998004 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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
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