Arctic deer live on islands in Canada's arctic regions. They search for food by moving over ice from island to island during the course of the year. Their habitat is limited to areas warm enough to sustain the plants on which they feed and cold enough, at least some of the year, for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands, allowing the deer to travel over it. Unfortunately, according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining. Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the purported decline in deer populations is the result of the deer's being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The given argument is based on arctic deer which is found in the arctic region of Canada. it stated that the decline in the population of the deer is the result of deer’s being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the sea. however before jumping to conclusions we need to consider all the possible scenarios which might help us to decide if the given argument is valid or not.
The argument claimed that the decline in the population of the deer is due to global warming which results in the melting of ice, since the deer travel through ice, melting of ice might be an obstacle for their migration. however this claim is based on the report given by the local hunters, but an important point which was not mentioned in the report was that hunting of the deer can also lead to the decrease in the deer population. Moreover it was mentioned that the habitat of the deer is limited to areas which are warm enough to sustain the plants for their food and cold enough for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands for their migration, so there might be a chance that the deer have found a habitat suitable for their survival and decided to stay in that place and not to migrate, in such cases global warming might not affect the population of the deer.
The argument is based in the report done by the local hunters, however there might be a chance that the population of the deer in the area where the hunters are located might be less and the population of the deer in other places might be more, if that is true then the report given by the hunters is false thus making the argument baseless.
By considering the above points it can be concluded that the above argument is not entirely valid.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 5 15
No. of Words: 315 350
No. of Characters: 1385 1500
No. of Different Words: 129 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.213 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.397 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.201 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 88 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 60 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 33 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 17 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 1 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 63 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 23.808 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.603 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.927 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.264 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 91, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...s found in the arctic region of Canada. it stated that the decline in the populati...
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Line 1, column 135, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tated that the decline in the population of the deer is the result of deer's...
^^
Line 1, column 250, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...-old migration patterns across the sea. however before jumping to conclusions we need t...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 250, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: however,
...-old migration patterns across the sea. however before jumping to conclusions we need t...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 223, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...ght be an obstacle for their migration. however this claim is based on the report given...
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Line 5, column 223, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: however,
...ght be an obstacle for their migration. however this claim is based on the report given...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 437, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...to the decrease in the deer population. Moreover it was mentioned that the habitat of th...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, moreover, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1423.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 315.0 441.139720559 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.51746031746 5.12650576532 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.27076238387 2.78398813304 82% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 204.123752495 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.431746031746 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 443.7 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 19.7664670659 40% => 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: 39.0 22.8473053892 171% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 113.57424609 57.8364921388 196% => OK
Chars per sentence: 177.875 119.503703932 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 39.375 23.324526521 169% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21928014477 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0998522764099 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103468969573 0.0701772020484 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106278530077 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105090521254 0.0628817314937 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.5 14.3799401198 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.81 48.3550499002 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.1 12.197005988 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.53 12.5979740519 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 98.500998004 57% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 17.6 11.1389221557 158% => 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
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