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.
The author concludes that to ensure the autonomy of a country, the illegal immigrants should be returned to their original country. However, this conclusion is based on some assumptions which need further evaluation prior to defaming any one specific cause. The author must be able to provide proof for the following two assumptions before recommending to force the illegal immigrants to their country of origin.
First of all, the author suggests that the independence of any nation is based on the strength of its borders alone. However, in order for a nation to be autonomous various other factors, including the performance of the nation on a global stage, its import-export strength and the performance of the government, are very important. If the country lacks on any these it will be very difficult for the nation to stand independent of others. So, to say that only border strength is important while evaluating the independence of a nation is wrong. Having a tightly secured border is useful but not the only way of making a country stand on its feet.
Moreover, to say that the illegal immigrants are the cause of dwindling economy is also not entirely true. The population, whether legal or illegal, has to work to earn its bread and butter. No one is given food for free. If the illegal immigrants work for their living, which they have to, then they are only helping to boost the economy. No proof or evidence is provided by the author which states otherwise. Furthermore, immigrants help keep a healthy dose of diversity in any country. While it is true that having a lot of illegal immigrants can pose a threat to the national resources, if all of them work to alleviate this concern then it will only help the nation.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is flawed because of lack of evidence. However, if the author is able to provide any proof regarding threat to national economy or identity then the opposite stance will be true. But as of now, to suggest that all the illegal immigrants must be sent back to their original country does not hold water.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 360 350
No. of Characters: 1684 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.356 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.678 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.61 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 121 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 56 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.791 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.722 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.504 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.049 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 235, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'anyone'?
Suggestion: anyone
...ed further evaluation prior to defaming any one specific cause. The author must be able...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, regarding, so, then, while, as to, in conclusion, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1732.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 360.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81111111111 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68960045681 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.475 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 551.7 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9555615844 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.2222222222 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.11111111111 5.70786347227 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.274191057134 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0845583637299 0.0743258471296 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0491981423369 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166840353933 0.128457276422 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0375796149961 0.0628817314937 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.3799401198 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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