"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.
In the letter to the national aeronautics magazine, the writer suggests that we should focus more on unmanned space flights simply because there is evidence that space probes and satellites have proven to be successful in gathering useful data. However, the argument in this letter relies on many assumptions which weaken its stance if their implications are not examined and analyzed in a more thorough manner.
Throughout this part of the letter, the writer's reasoning heavily depends on the assumption that unmanned space discoveries can be as powerful and effective as manned ones. However, th...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 465 350
No. of Characters: 2436 1500
No. of Different Words: 213 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.644 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.239 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.666 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 194 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 149 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 102 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 71 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.062 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.823 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.379 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.586 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 275, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this machinery' or 'these machineries'?
Suggestion: this machinery; these machineries
...ts constantly repairing and maintaining these machinery in space, meaning that without manned s...
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Line 4, column 587, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...ce flight will be futile, rendering the writers argument less effective. In the end, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2495.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 465.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36559139785 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7737484014 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483870967742 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 784.8 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.0190526646 57.8364921388 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.9375 119.503703932 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0625 23.324526521 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.70786347227 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => 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: 0.376189267285 0.218282227539 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1663757677 0.0743258471296 224% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105998964663 0.0701772020484 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.259713615785 0.128457276422 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0517481733749 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.4 14.3799401198 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.46 12.5979740519 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 98.500998004 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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