The following opinion was provided in a letter to the editor of a national aeronautics magazine:
“Manned space flight is costly and dangerous. Moreover, the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites has demonstrated that a great deal of useful information can be gathered without the costs and risks associated with sending men and women into space. Therefore, we should invest our resources in unmanned space flight."
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 through the passage elucidates that humans must not be sent to space because it is utterly precarious and dangerous.The claim is further bolstered by the instance of recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites. On a rudimentary level, the claim does seem plausible, after all if the useful information is gathered without the astronomical costs and risks, why would one try to send men to space? However, upon comprehensive scrutiny, it is conspicuously deductible that the claim misses certain key aspects in order to make it plausible.
Firstly, the author assumes that if the recent series of space expeditions were successful, then the future missions would be successful as well. However, it is highly unlikely for a space exploration mission to be successful,especially without humans. Space expedition is a very recondite and erudite subject which involves a plethora of factors upon which the success of a particular program or mission depends. The mission results into success only if all or atleast most of the innumerable factors prevail in the favour of the planned process. Hence, to assume a success in future based upon recent results would be quixotic.
Morevoer, the author believes that unmanned space flights can provide the useful information, without the costs and the risks associated with sending humans into space. The author does dilineate that a great deal of information is obtained, but is this the information that was actually required? Is this information enough to justify the high costs of space expeditions? Also, when it comes to space exploration, it is not always about the information, rather the interpretation of the information, that is utterly significant in making groundbreaking revelations.
Finally, the author also assumes that investing into unmanned space flight will result into increasing the possibility of success of such missions. However, money isn't the only resource that is of prime importance; instead the ingenuity of human caliber is a more likely resource to achieve success.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: The mission results into success only if all or atleast most of the innumerable factors prevail in the favour of the planned process.
Error: atleast Suggestion: attest
Sentence: The author does dilineate that a great deal of information is obtained, but is this the information that was actually required?
Error: dilineate Suggestion: delineate
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argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
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also need to argue:
1. Manned space flight is costly and dangerous.
2. Therefore, we should invest our resources in unmanned space flight.
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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: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 330 350
No. of Characters: 1706 1500
No. of Different Words: 167 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.262 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.17 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.845 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.108 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.361 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.584 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.084 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 128, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
... it is utterly precarious and dangerous.The claim is further bolstered by the insta...
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Line 3, column 226, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , especially
...ace exploration mission to be successful,especially without humans. Space expedition is a v...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 164, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...uccess of such missions. However, money isnt the only resource that is of prime impo...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, so, then, well, after all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1753.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 327.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36085626911 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07582024252 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532110091743 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6956481078 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.214285714 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3571428571 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.70786347227 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.253586601774 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0878916782063 0.0743258471296 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0648415630296 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149072191226 0.128457276422 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338388982241 0.0628817314937 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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