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.”
The argument stating that illegal immigrants pose a threat to the country's economy and national identity is based on unwarranted assumptions. These assumptions, unless accounted for, cause the argument to lack cogency.
The assumption that the autonomy of any country is based on the strength of its borders is deeply flawed. The autonomy of any country depends on several parameters, one of which is the strength of its borders. It is possible that a country with a strong border may be crippling from inside due to widespread famine. Unless specific evidence is provided regarding how the strength of a country's border is the only factor on which the autonomy is based, a conclusion cannot be drawn.
The writer claims that illegal immigrants will pose grave threats and endanger the nation. No information about the number of immigrants that will pose as danger to the country is provided. It is possible that the number of immigrants entering are small and do not pose a threat to the nation. These immigrants may have entered the country because they were persecuted in their homeland and thus chose another place for refuge. In such a case, providing shelter to such immigrants will only help better the claim of autonomy of the country in the eyes of the world and show that the nation can provide for itself and others. No other act would demonstrate the autonomy of our country as well.
The writer also states that these immigrants pose a threat to the country's economy and national identity. However, no evidence regarding this has been provided. There have been cases where illegal immigrants have contributed to the workforce of countries where they reside by taking joining in as labourers. They have thus helped the respective countries improve their economies. Unless reasons and examples are cited to prove that illegal immigrants have brought about the downfall of countries, the assumption will remain flawed.
These examples go on to show that unless evidence is provided to demonstrate that illegal immigrants will bring about a country's ruin, we cannot ascertain from the flawed assumptions provided above that the argument will hold true.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 355 350
No. of Characters: 1781 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.341 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.017 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.591 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 141 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.722 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.851 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.389 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.349 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.575 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.13 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, regarding, so, thus, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1819.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 355.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12394366197 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63764275325 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.459154929577 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.0220796312 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.055555556 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7222222222 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.345400210427 0.218282227539 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122415897076 0.0743258471296 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0820846375122 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193759167258 0.128457276422 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0701496168564 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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