“In last year’s mayoral election in Town T, candidate Miller led candidate Keating by a substantial margin in the polls leading up to the election. At the last minute, Keating launched a widely viewed series of television advertisements that focused on preserving the natural environment of Town T, a topic neglected by Miller. Subsequently, Keating won the election by a narrow margin. This year, if candidate Miller hopes to win the upcoming mayoral election, he must increase his coverage of the topic of preserving the natural environment of Town T.
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 suggests that for Miller to win the mayoral elections he has to focus more on environmental issues. This argument is based on the last election experience, which witnessed Miller defeat because he did not give these topic enough attention. However, the author support this argument with unwarranted assumptions that could make it invalid.
First of all, the author assumes that ,in the last election, Miller’s opponent, Keating, was nearly defeated, was not for her last minutes campaign on television about preserving natural environment. This idea is not supported by any evidence, expect polls’ results. Poll result are certainly indication, however, nobody can rely on them to conclude such definitive conclusion. Polls depends of approximate statistical criteria within margin of error. These criteria differ from poll to another. Hence, if the author only rely on this evidence, this will undermine his argument. Unless the author is assuming that the Poll results are very accurate, which is very difficult to prove.
Secondly, the author suggestion for the the upcoming election is neglecting the current status of the society, in fact, he assumed the people priorities remain unchanged. Yes, lessons from past elections is very helpful in planning election campaigns. However, current society dynamics are the essential factors that would shape the upcoming election. If environmental issues are no longer a big concern, or other urgent agenda is taking the priority, focusing on natural preservation will not be effective.
Finally, the author assumes that is no other flaws in Miller’s campaign except for his slogans or promises. In election, having the right cause and slogans is not the only factor that lead to winning. In fact, modern election depends heavily on media and public outreach. If Miller has defects in his outreach strategy he will face the same problem in the next election, regardless of his slogans.
There is not sufficient evidence to say that by focusing on preserving environment during the election, Miller will win. The author reached this conclusion using many unstated assumptions that require proof in first place.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 340 350
No. of Characters: 1776 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.294 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.224 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.579 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.71 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.295 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.52 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 222, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this topic' or 'these topics'?
Suggestion: this topic; these topics
...d Miller defeat because he did not give these topic enough attention. However, the author s...
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Line 4, column 38, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... First of all, the author assumes that ,in the last election, Miller's oppo...
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Line 6, column 37, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
... Secondly, the author suggestion for the the upcoming election is neglecting the cur...
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Line 6, column 37, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
... Secondly, the author suggestion for the the upcoming election is neglecting the cur...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, as to, except for, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1858.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 340.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46470588235 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76851427309 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570588235294 0.468620217663 122% => OK
syllable_count: 574.2 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.6822845526 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.9 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.15 5.70786347227 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.173653204459 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0504152975581 0.0743258471296 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0427330929923 0.0701772020484 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0912809303293 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0363463050905 0.0628817314937 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.09 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.5 8.32208582834 114% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => 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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