The following argument was made in a newspaper editorial:
“The autonomy of any country is based on the strength of its borders; if the number of illegal immigrants entering a country cannot be checked, both its economy and national identity are endangered. Because illegal immigrants pose such threats, every effort must be made to return them to their country of origin.”
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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 author argues that illegal immigrants pose threats of ruining the economy and imperiling the national identity of a country; therefore they should strengthen the borders and make every effort possible to return them to their country of origin, but fails to provide information validating the claim.
Initially, it surmises that the autonomy of every country is based on the strength of its borders and illegal immigrants enter the country through these borders and endanger the country's economy and national identity. However, there is no provision of any statistical data suggesting the prime source of immigrants is through these borders which they cross illegally.
On the other hand, the argument proffers that because illegal immigrants pose such imminent threats and every endeavor must be made to send them back to their homeland. In the sentence above, the writer says that number of illegitimate immigrants cannot be checked so, this claim renders the writers assumption fallacious. Since there is no track, they might not be able to deport every illegal settler.
Also, the author fails to take account of the fact that the country may actually require people emigrated from other countries in order to compensate for the scarcity of skilled professionals in the former. If that is the case, how is the country certain that these legitimate migrants will not pose the similar inimical threats the illegal migrants do?
Thus, on the author is unable to authenticate the claim that, illegal immigrants jeopardize the economy and national identity of a country and they should be remitted at every cost, fails to make a cogent case. The lack of sound information to authenticate the claim questions the veracity of the argument.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not OK. this topic is not about 'legitimate migrants'
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Let's analyze the structure of the statement:
condition 1:
The autonomy of any country is based on the strength of its borders;
condition 2:
if the number of illegal immigrants entering a country cannot be checked, both its economy and national identity are endangered.
conclusion:
Because illegal immigrants pose such threats, every effort must be made to return them to their country of origin.
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flaws:
'On the other hand' means However. It doesn't mean 'On another hand'.
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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: 10 15
No. of Words: 280 350
No. of Characters: 1434 1500
No. of Different Words: 143 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.091 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.121 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.619 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 111 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.455 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.402 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.72 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.108 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 293, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...t be checked so, this claim renders the writers assumption fallacious. Since there is n...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1474.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 280.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26428571429 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64764045897 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521428571429 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 61.2343041113 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.4 119.503703932 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.3 5.70786347227 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303034820103 0.218282227539 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112877815162 0.0743258471296 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0909619245488 0.0701772020484 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158898108684 0.128457276422 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0598476317432 0.0628817314937 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 98.500998004 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 12.3882235529 161% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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