The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a journal on environmental issues.
"Over the past year, the Crust Copper Company (CCC) has purchased over 10,000 square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia. Mining copper on this land will inevitably result in pollution and, since West Fredonia is the home of several endangered animal species, in environmental disaster. But such disasters can be prevented if consumers simply refuse to purchase products that are made with CCC's copper unless the company abandons its mining plans."
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 letter to the editor of a journal consisted an argument which suggested that the consumers should stop purchasing products made by the Crust Copper Company (CCC) as they are causing harm to the tropical nation of West Fredonia due to their minning activities resulting in pollution. West Fredonia has experienced environmental disasters which has lead to reduction of the number of endangered animal species in the nation. The evidence provided includes the fact that the company has purchased over 10,000 square miles of land in West Fredonia. However, there are certain assumptions which need to confirmed before coming to any conclusion.
Firstly, there might be a chance that the environmental disasters experienced by the nation of West Fredonia are due to various reasons and not only because of the pollution caused by the minning activities. For instance, environmental hazards like flood, tsunami are more likely in places that are located near the large water bodies. Environmental hazards can occur due to various natural reasons which are not in human's control.
Secondly, refusing to buy the products made by the company would not stop people from buying products made of of copper in general. For example, if a certain brand stops making toys for children, parents would not stop buying toys but they would look for some other brand so that they can keep their children happy. Therefore, if CCC abandons its minning plans, what is stopping other copper manufacturing companies from buying the land in West Fredonia?
Also, there also might be the case that the CCC is planning to use the land to build a warehouse or storage area to store its raw materials or products. Then, there would not be any minning activities and no chance of pollution.
In conclusion, there is a need for a thorough research as to why are there environmental hazards and how the CCC plans to use the land that has been purchased. banning of consumers
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 324 350
No. of Characters: 1592 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.243 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.914 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.608 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 116 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.923 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.482 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.638 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.06 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 108, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: of
...t stop people from buying products made of of copper in general. For example, if a ce...
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Line 9, column 36, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'thorough research'.
Suggestion: thorough research
.... In conclusion, there is a need for a thorough research as to why are there environmental hazar...
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Line 9, column 161, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Banning
...o use the land that has been purchased. banning of consumers
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 324.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03703703704 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69083413182 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.503086419753 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 705.55239521 70% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2301707568 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.571428571 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1428571429 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2857142857 5.70786347227 180% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275906823543 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0909985811022 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10810750484 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135231852321 0.128457276422 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119543436121 0.0628817314937 190% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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