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."
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.
While it may be true that a country's autonomy is based on the strength of it's borders, the argument is not coherent in making claims that immigrants who cross those borders illegally pose the threat of endangering the national identity and economy. Hence, the argument is flawed because of numerous reasons.
It can't be ignored that the argument states illegal immigrants entering the country can't be checked. The argument fails to provide a valid reason why the number of people entering the country cannot be checked.The argument is generalizing that all the illegal immigrants are a threat to the country's identity and ecomony.There are high chances that a person entering the country legally and attaining illegal immigration status by succmbing to a swindle and had to leave the country.
Futhermore, the argument states the country's autonomy is based on the strength of the borders. A country's autonomy may not be always based on it's borders. It could be based on a country's internal diversity or a country's religion.Additionally, the argument states that because the number of people entering the country can't be checked the country has the threat of endangerment of it's economy and identity. The argument uses the premise of basing the the autonomy of a country to it's borders and fails to provide an evidence that immigrats entering via border would be called as illegal immigrats.Had the argument stated that illegal immigrants are the one who enter the country by sneeking through borders, the argument would have provided a valid definition of an illegal immigrant.
With all that being said, the argument fails to provide cogent explanation for the effort that must be taken to return illegal immigrants.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: The argument fails to provide a valid reason why the number of people entering the country cannot be checked.The argument is generalizing that all the illegal immigrants are a threat to the country's identity and ecomony.There are high chances that a person entering the country legally and attaining illegal immigration status by succmbing to a swindle and had to leave the country.
Error: ecomony Suggestion: economy
Error: succmbing Suggestion: succumbing
Sentence: The argument uses the premise of basing the the autonomy of a country to it's borders and fails to provide an evidence that immigrats entering via border would be called as illegal immigrats.Had the argument stated that illegal immigrants are the one who enter the country by sneeking through borders, the argument would have provided a valid definition of an illegal immigrant.
Error: immigrats Suggestion: immigrate
Error: sneeking Suggestion: sneaking
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 284 350
No. of Characters: 1432 1500
No. of Different Words: 116 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.105 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.042 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.624 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.556 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 20.44 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.521 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.728 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.231 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 4, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...awed because of numerous reasons. It cant be ignored that the argument states ill...
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Line 3, column 4, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
...awed because of numerous reasons. It cant be ignored that the argument states ill...
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Line 3, column 85, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...illegal immigrants entering the country cant be checked. The argument fails to provi...
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Line 3, column 211, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
... entering the country cannot be checked.The argument is generalizing that all the i...
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Line 3, column 322, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: There
...at to the countrys identity and ecomony.There are high chances that a person entering...
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Line 5, column 230, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Additionally
...ternal diversity or a countrys religion.Additionally, the argument states that because the n...
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Line 5, column 319, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...e number of people entering the country cant be checked the country has the threat o...
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Line 5, column 447, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...The argument uses the premise of basing the the autonomy of a country to its borders an...
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Line 5, column 447, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...The argument uses the premise of basing the the autonomy of a country to its borders an...
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Line 5, column 597, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Had
...er would be called as illegal immigrats.Had the argument stated that illegal immigr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, may, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 55.5748502994 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1447.0 2260.96107784 64% => OK
No of words: 280.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16785714286 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90481435355 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 204.123752495 59% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.428571428571 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 459.0 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => 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: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 121.746650523 57.8364921388 211% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 160.777777778 119.503703932 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.1111111111 23.324526521 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.33333333333 5.70786347227 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.511455631627 0.218282227539 234% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.256125314311 0.0743258471296 345% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107729519074 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.305700343993 0.128457276422 238% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.131622969258 0.0628817314937 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.3550499002 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.3 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.