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
In the opinion provided that appeared in the letter to the editor of the national aeronautics magazine, the speaker clearly states that manned space flight is costly and dangerous, and the resources should be invested more on unmanned space flights rather than doing so for manned space flights. In further supporting their statement the author also states about the recent success of unmanned satellites and probes that do not have the risks and costs associated with carrying humans in space. However, I am not entirely convinced with these statements’ assertions as there are no factual data provided along with these assertions in support and looks like a lot of assumptions are taken into consideration. Also these assertions themselves are not convincing enough, so as to provide a basis for some decisions upon them.
Firstly, it is assumed that manned space flights are costly and dangerous. It is also possible that the unmanned space flights turn out to be costlier since there is a lot of use of high-end technology involved in sending these automated probes and flights to space. Also, it is also possible that due to some technical error in these automated system that occur in space, the data received on Earth is faulty. Now, if some important decision were to be taken based on this faulty data, it might turn out to be a big problem, and thus there are many such dangers involved even with unmanned space flights. Since, no concrete facts are provided further in support of this statement, it should be considered that the author just assumed that manned space flights are costly and dangerous compared to the unmanned ones.
Secondly, even though agreeing that there are certain risks associated with sending humans in space, it is not considered by the author of the letter that there are many risks associated with even the unmanned space flights. It is not true that every unmanned space flight that went into space was successful. There are cases where even these unmanned space flights stopped responding back or sent some data that was irregular, or got into some other technical problem while in space. So, it is clearly seen that the author just assumed that the unmanned space crafts are always successful in their job.
Along with this, there are certain information that only humans are able to evaluate properly and are not in the scope of machines. Machines, till now, are only able to send pictures and provide physical data about the atmosphere in which they are present.
In conclusion, I would say that the author of this letter based their assertions on various assumptions without considering proper facts and figures, and thus this letter is not convincing enough to take the decision to stop sending manned flights into space.
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 463 350
No. of Characters: 2261 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.639 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.883 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.406 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 158 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.938 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.634 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.385 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.617 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.114 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 715, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...sumptions are taken into consideration. Also these assertions themselves are not con...
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Line 1, column 775, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...s themselves are not convincing enough, so as to provide a basis for some decisions upon...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, thus, while, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.6327345309 173% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 28.8173652695 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2314.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 463.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99784017279 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51077103493 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.427645788337 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 731.7 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.6943868389 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.625 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.9375 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.365682302241 0.218282227539 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139125857582 0.0743258471296 187% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112243401906 0.0701772020484 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190353068712 0.128457276422 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112577961879 0.0628817314937 179% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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