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 author of the argument purportedly states that the population of arctic deer's have been diminished significantly because they are not able to continue their migration over frozen sea due to the fact that global warming and other negative effects have influenced ice sheets. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which more well-established evidence should be given.
First, the author contends that because of the fluctuation in temperature in arctic region, deer's' habitat are restricted to the places, which create some problem for them such as scarce resource food and travel over sea through ice cover. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since there is no sufficient evidence to support if they run into those problems during whole years. One point that should be considered is that there is no evidence to show that in what extent arctic region experience fluctuation. Indeed, there is possibility that warm and cold temperature effects deer's' habitat only in specific time of year. It is also important to say that there is no information about vegetation and kinds of plants that deer's feed on.
The author also attributes that based on local hunters' information and records the population of deer's are reducing. Although it might seem tenable at face, it has some detects, due to the paucity of evidence to show that if decline in deer's' population reported by hunters is accurate and this reduction occur in all part of the arctic. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that maybe hunters looking for deer's in specific part of the island, which perhaps the number of deer's is limited in that region. Alongside that, hunters report could not be reliable and perhaps they did not tell the truth due to the fact that they provide an opportunity to hunt as much as they want.
Finally, as set forth by the author alongside with the reports by hunters, recent global warming has changed the trend of ice melt. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premises could be challenge owing to inadequate evidence to support if global warming is the main issue of melting ice in arctic region. One point that cannot go unnoticed is that there is no valid evidence in the author's statement to show that global warming is the only factor that cause ice to melt. As a matter of fact, as scientists suggested, there are different factors that could interfere with ice to melt such as human activities. Moreover, maybe global warming has influenced on ice in a short period of time. In fact, we do not know that to the extent global warming affects ice to melt.
Having scrutinized the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there is some evidence, having been ignored by the author, while the presence of which could add to the logic of each premise.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 48, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'hunters'' or 'hunter's'?
Suggestion: hunters'; hunter's
...hor also attributes that based on local hunters information and records the population ...
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Line 7, column 168, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...elt. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premises could be challenge owing to in...
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Line 7, column 387, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... that there is no valid evidence in the authors statement to show that global warming i...
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Line 7, column 678, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...arming has influenced on ice in a short period of time. In fact, we do not know that to the ex...
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Line 9, column 208, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...could add to the logic of each premise.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'in fact', 'such as', 'as a matter of fact']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.237288135593 0.25644967241 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.165725047081 0.15541462614 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0885122410546 0.0836205057962 106% => OK
Adverbs: 0.045197740113 0.0520304965353 87% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0263653483992 0.0272364105082 97% => OK
Prepositions: 0.154425612053 0.125424944231 123% => OK
Participles: 0.0414312617702 0.0416121511921 100% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.54510294945 2.79052419416 91% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0357815442561 0.026700313972 134% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0979284369115 0.113004496875 87% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0169491525424 0.0255425247493 66% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0225988700565 0.0127820249294 177% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2866.0 2731.13054187 105% => OK
No of words: 489.0 446.07635468 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.8609406953 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.335378323108 0.378187486979 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.253578732106 0.287650121315 88% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.153374233129 0.208842608468 73% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0940695296524 0.135150697306 70% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54510294945 2.79052419416 91% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 207.018472906 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472392638037 0.469332199767 101% => OK
Word variations: 54.1681050757 52.1807786196 104% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 25.7368421053 23.2022227129 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.9832815717 57.7814097925 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.842105263 141.986410481 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7368421053 23.2022227129 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.842105263158 0.724660767414 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 3.58251231527 140% => OK
Readability: 51.0947153159 51.9672348444 98% => OK
Elegance: 1.8253968254 1.8405768891 99% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.407364630212 0.441005458295 92% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.13946772071 0.135418324435 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0654504100594 0.0829849096947 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.581520218451 0.58762219726 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.149897944781 0.147661913831 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.173572743741 0.193483328276 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0633070596555 0.0970749176394 65% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.424316050882 0.42659136922 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.07361992598 0.0774707102158 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.285654071387 0.312017818177 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0433498489384 0.0698173142475 62% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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