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 of the editorial in a newspaper has reached a conclusion that the illegal immigrants must be returned to their country of origin in any way possible. He supports his argument by claiming that illegal immigrants pose threats to the economy and national identity of a nation. However, there are many assumptions that the author has based his conclusion on. Let us have a look at a couple of them and their implications if they prove unwarranted.
Firstly, the author says that the autonomy of a country is based on the strength of it's borders. But he fails to give any analytical proof that supports his claim. Autonomy of a country not only depends on the strength of it's border but also on it's governance. For example, if a nation is good at keeping illegal immigrants away but it's government cannot function properly, then how can it achieve autonomy. In this case, the weaknesses in the authors assumption are clear. His argument depends on the ability of a country to drive illegal immigrants away but what if there are no illegal immigrants and still the government flounders with it's tasks. It will hurt both it's economy and it's national identity. So, the author must evaluate this assumption first.
Moreover, the author asserts that illegal immigrants pose threat to the economy and national identity. But exactly how do these immigrants damage the economy and identity is unclear. The author assumes that the cause of the said problems are illegal immigrants. Furthermore, he goes on to say that they should be removed by any possible means. Suppose this process becomes too violent. This would place the nation in hot waters. The country would be infamous throughout the world for it's inimical treatment towards illegal immigrants. This could cause serious damage to the identity and economy. No other country would like to indulge in trade with such a country as they would fear of being associated with a blacklisted nation. This assumption, if proved true, could have very grave implications.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now, is significantly flawed because of it's reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. A couple of these assumptions along with their implications have been described in the above paragraphs. If the author is able to prove these assumption false, then his country can go on to remove illegal immigrants as they want but if these assumptions prove to be unwarranted, then it could be deleterious to the country's economy and identity.
Comments
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: 25 15
No. of Words: 415 350
No. of Characters: 2046 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.513 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.93 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.696 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 150 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 125 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.94 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.56 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.285 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.425 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.068 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 445, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...my. In this case, the weaknesses in the authors assumption are clear. His argument depe...
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Line 7, column 267, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this assumption' or 'these assumptions'?
Suggestion: this assumption; these assumptions
...agraphs. If the author is able to prove these assumption false, then his country can go on to re...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, so, still, then, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 48.0 28.8173652695 167% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2087.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 415.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02891566265 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80103251187 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455421686747 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 658.8 705.55239521 93% => 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: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.4295058305 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.48 119.503703932 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.48 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 6.88822355289 232% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.364760970949 0.218282227539 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10141877197 0.0743258471296 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0936287415523 0.0701772020484 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230379222356 0.128457276422 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0832462156952 0.0628817314937 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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