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 of the newspaper editorial concludes as illegal immigrants pose threats, they must be sent back to their country of origin. The argument is flawed.
The above argument does not talk about what is being done to keep the borders secure. Whether the check posts have the required number of soldiers or not. What if the soldiers are present after every ten metres but still illegal immigrants are able to enter the country. It can be done through tunnels or ships. As international borders in the oceans cannot be too secure, and people can enter through ships and boats, what is being done about it is not clearly asserted in the argument.
There are no reports giving the number of people who have entered in the past have endangered both national and economic identity. There is no mention of the what other threats they can pose. The argument is not divulging whether the citizens cause a bigger problem for economic or national identity or the immigrants cause it. In some cases it is possible that the immigrants bring in more ideas with which the countries economic situation is more stabilised. In this case if these people are returned back to their country, then it will be a loss for the former.
The argument solely states the autonomy of any country is based on the strength of borders. Then what about the other things that matter. It does not voice the problem the citizens of the can cause. It can happen that these people are taking bribes on the borders so as to let them come on. It can also happen in the cases of smuggling of drugs and other such commodities. There is no reference of other parameters on which the autonomy of the country lies upon.
Though it is really important that the borders are made secure, but there is no indication of how it can be done, which make the argument lie on unstated assumptions. It also needs to state the past reports of such instances where the immigrants have caused a problem. In what way these immigrants are
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... of origin. The argument is flawed. The above argument does not talk about what...
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Line 4, column 495, Rule ID: RETURN_BACK[1]
Message: Use simply 'returned'.
Suggestion: returned
...lised. In this case if these people are returned back to their country, then it will be a los...
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Line 6, column 265, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...people are taking bribes on the borders so as to let them come on. It can also happen in...
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Line 6, column 292, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... the borders so as to let them come on. It can also happen in the cases of smuggli...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'really', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'as to', 'in some cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.213720316623 0.240241500013 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.179419525066 0.157235817809 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0712401055409 0.0880659088768 81% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0527704485488 0.0497285424764 106% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0422163588391 0.0444667217837 95% => OK
Prepositions: 0.129287598945 0.12292977631 105% => OK
Participles: 0.0474934036939 0.0406280797675 117% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.38438601768 2.79330140395 85% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0158311345646 0.030933414821 51% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.131926121372 0.0997080785238 132% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0263852242744 0.0249443105267 106% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0316622691293 0.0148568991511 213% => Maybe 'Which' is overused. If other WH_determiners like 'Who, What, Whom, Whose...' are used too in sentences, then there are no issues.
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1990.0 2732.02544248 73% => OK
No of words: 352.0 452.878318584 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.65340909091 6.0361032391 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.58838876751 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.306818181818 0.366273622748 84% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.235795454545 0.280924506359 84% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.150568181818 0.200843997647 75% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0710227272727 0.132149295362 54% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38438601768 2.79330140395 85% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 219.290929204 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.471590909091 0.48968727796 96% => OK
Word variations: 48.6155579379 55.4138127331 88% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6194690265 102% => OK
Sentence length: 16.7619047619 23.380412469 72% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2913985212 59.4972553346 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.7619047619 141.124799967 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7619047619 23.380412469 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.428571428571 0.674092028746 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 40.3414502165 51.4728631049 78% => OK
Elegance: 1.42307692308 1.64882698954 86% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.559352736931 0.391690518653 143% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.119217371258 0.123202303941 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0773754309421 0.077325440228 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.549834057803 0.547984918172 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.154884880339 0.149214159877 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.235260734894 0.161403998019 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113836657851 0.0892212321368 128% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.457234757831 0.385218514788 119% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0787707740145 0.0692045440612 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.400916725272 0.275328986314 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.058117888123 0.0653680567796 89% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.4325221239 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.30420353982 226% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 7.22455752212 42% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 3.66592920354 246% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.