“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.
In the argument, the speaker claims that according to the report of local hunters the population of Arctic deer lives on islands in Canada’s arctic region is declining. To justify the claim also stated that the recent trend of global warming that caused ice melting. However, before this evidence properly evaluated, three possibilities must be analyzed.
First of all, local hunters of the area reported that the arctic deer population is declining. But there are possibilities that hunters only assume the numbers, not measures with scientific methods. Or maybe from where they search for deer that wasn’t their area to roam around. If either of this evidence is true, the original argument going to be weakened.
Secondly, as stated, the local hunters report and calculation was true and the deer population is declining, there is a huge chance that the majority of the arctic deer is shifted a different area for food hunt. If the piece evidence is true, the argument is weakened.
Thirdly, the argument stated that the recent global warming tends which is the cause of the declination of the deer. But it is possible that what is happening other side of the world may not have an effect on the arctic islands or on the deer population of the area. Perhaps the climate changes affect less in that certain area. And deer live in their normal ways of life. Even if the ice is melted due to the climatic change, but it was really in small amount which didn’t hamper the deer to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea. If the above evidence is true the argument can’t hold the water.
At the end, where the argument stand is weak. If asserted above evidence have merit and more evidence is provides with proper analysis then it will be possible to evaluate the stated argument.
Comments
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: 17 15
No. of Words: 312 350
No. of Characters: 1456 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.203 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.667 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.327 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 106 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 69 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 17 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.353 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.771 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.706 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.534 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.047 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 32, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'hunters'' or 'hunter's'?
Suggestion: hunters'; hunter's
...ed. Secondly, as stated, the local hunters report and calculation was true and the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1540.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 310.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96774193548 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49582585974 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.506451612903 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.1191616533 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.5882352941 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2352941176 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88235294118 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215475874879 0.218282227539 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0677957856553 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0723790335242 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118329925284 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0669459812778 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => 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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