ARGUMENT: Several charitable organizations in Pleasantville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly d

Author's argument to make 40 hours of charity work mandatory is based
on some assumptions that dictate the validity of the argument. The
argument would turn out to be sound and logical if these assumptions
are proven to support the claim.

The author's suggestion is primarily based on the opinion of some
local residents of the city as citizens agree to the importance of
participation of young people in community service. However, the
number of people agreeing with this argument has not been specified.
If majority of the residents disagree with the author, the argument
tends to lose its meaning. On the contrary, agreement of most of the
local citizens would buttress the claim of the author. Moreover, even
if the most of the citizens agree that students should participate in
community service, this by no means indicate that this should be
imposed on the youth. May be people believe that the urge to do
community service should come from within rather than forcing it
extrinsically. Thus, this opinion would significantly weaken the
author's argument.

Additionally, even if the community service is made mandatory, this
may not make youth realize the importance of giving back to community.
The writer has assumed the psychology of the youth to be naive, as in
his opinion the imposition of the restriction would eventually do good
to them. However, his assumption may turn out to be false, students
might think otherwise, as they may feel vexed with the restrictions
and begin to see the community service a medium to suppress their
freedom.

Another assumption that author relies on is the significant decline of
volunteers in charity organizations. Nonetheless, this information is
inadequate to prove validity of the argument. It may be true that the
youth has migrated from the traditional charity organizations to new
mediums. For example, they may have switched to internet to provide
free tuition classes to needy and poor junior students. The author has
not provided the reason of the decline and assumed the decline
indicates youth's lack of interest and participation in community
service. If this assumption is proven wrong, the whole argument is
rendered meaningless as there would be no problem demanding such a
measure.

In the conclusion, the information on opinion distribution of
citizens, the psychology of youth and the reason as well as nature of
decline in the number of participation of youth in community service
would prove out to be critical for the evaluation of the argument.

Votes
Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...are proven to support the claim. The authors suggestion is primarily based on the op...
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Line 9, column 31, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ver, the number of people agreeing with this argument has not been specified. I...
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Line 18, column 1, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...opinion would significantly weaken the authors argument. Additionally, even if the ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'for example', 'as well as', 'on the contrary']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.257270693512 0.25644967241 100% => OK
Verbs: 0.156599552573 0.15541462614 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0559284116331 0.0836205057962 67% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0469798657718 0.0520304965353 90% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0201342281879 0.0272364105082 74% => OK
Prepositions: 0.143176733781 0.125424944231 114% => OK
Participles: 0.0357941834452 0.0416121511921 86% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.92189901572 2.79052419416 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0402684563758 0.026700313972 151% => OK
Particles: 0.00671140939597 0.001811407834 371% => OK
Determiners: 0.136465324385 0.113004496875 121% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0335570469799 0.0255425247493 131% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00223713646532 0.0127820249294 18% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2554.0 2731.13054187 94% => OK
No of words: 411.0 446.07635468 92% => OK
Chars per words: 6.21411192214 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.384428223844 0.378187486979 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.313868613139 0.287650121315 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.231143552311 0.208842608468 111% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.14598540146 0.135150697306 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92189901572 2.79052419416 105% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 207.018472906 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.450121654501 0.469332199767 96% => OK
Word variations: 48.3261621556 52.1807786196 93% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 21.6315789474 23.2022227129 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1257586191 57.7814097925 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.421052632 141.986410481 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6315789474 23.2022227129 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.631578947368 0.724660767414 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 37.0 5.14285714286 719% => There are something wrong with the essay format.
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 53.0184402612 51.9672348444 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.95 1.8405768891 106% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296455526109 0.441005458295 67% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.117538070109 0.135418324435 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0684914589673 0.0829849096947 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.810537465506 0.58762219726 138% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.257805232192 0.147661913831 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13128533271 0.193483328276 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551340161081 0.0970749176394 57% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.121251259214 0.42659136922 28% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0971058296629 0.0774707102158 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106058432851 0.312017818177 34% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0638615396609 0.0698173142475 91% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 6.46551724138 139% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 14.657635468 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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