A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. After the recall, the pet food company tested samples from the recalled food and determined that all chemicals found in the food were chemicals that are approved for use in pet food. Thus, the recalled food was not responsible for these symptoms, and the company should not devote further resources to the investigation.
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 if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In the editorial from the local newspaper, it is stated that illegal immigrants threaten the economy and national identity of a country and having feeble borders can cause them to enter the country unchecked. The author further adds that there should be efforts to send them back to their ocountry of origin. However before this recommendation can be properly accepted, the following assumptions should be evaluated.
Firstly, the author in the editorial assumes that the country borders is not already robust and needs more attention. The author can be totally mistaken about the strength of the borders. The scenario could be that not only the borders are vigorous the government have made the army positioned there so no outsiders could enter the country. The goverment has not only stationed the army but have also built a wall high enough for the people of the other country to pass in. If this arguement holds true that then author's assumptions doesn't hold water.
Secondly, the author presumes that the national and economical identity can only be endangered by the illegal immigrants. There could be a possibility that the current identity of the nation is very hostile because of its very reasons to not let immigrants in the country. Paradoxically, the illegal immigrants are not actually a threat to the people as their sole motive to go to other country could be the liking towards the country or have chauvnistic tendency towards the country. If this arguement tends to have merit then the author assumptions are unwarranted.
Thirdly, the author seems to believe that the the government currently is doing nothing to send the illegal immigrants to their own country. In fact, from the recent statistics in the news the government have successfully corroborated 80 precent of the immigrants in the country and already made arrangements for the illegal ones to be sent back to their country. They have done the following by verifying the data and have taken into consideration everything thats required for the immigrant.
In conclusion, the arguement as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance with several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to offer more evidence and provide it in more systematic form, then it will be possible, to fully evaluate the validity of the arguement.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 383 350
No. of Characters: 1910 1500
No. of Different Words: 179 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.424 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.987 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.725 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.529 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.747 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.706 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.572 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 310, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... them back to their ocountry of origin. However before this recommendation can be prope...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 342, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...o no outsiders could enter the country. The goverment has not only stationed the ar...
^^^
Line 3, column 475, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...people of the other country to pass in. If this arguement holds true that then aut...
^^
Line 3, column 534, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...olds true that then authors assumptions doesnt hold water. Secondly, the author pre...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 486, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...auvnistic tendency towards the country. If this arguement tends to have merit then...
^^
Line 7, column 43, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...irdly, the author seems to believe that the the government currently is doing nothing t...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 43, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...irdly, the author seems to believe that the the government currently is doing nothing t...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 461, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...ave taken into consideration everything thats required for the immigrant. In concl...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1955.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 382.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11780104712 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8010336644 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.476439790576 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 613.8 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.0748812331 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.0 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4705882353 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.82352941176 5.70786347227 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.00917960704208 0.218282227539 4% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00308189028921 0.0743258471296 4% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.00559201072286 0.0701772020484 8% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.00562267541164 0.128457276422 4% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00284973445248 0.0628817314937 5% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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