Recent incursions by deep-sea fishermen into the habitat of the Madagascan shrimp have led to a significant reduction in the species population. With the breeding season fast approaching, the number of shrimp should soon begin to increase. Nonetheless, the population should not return to the levels before the fishing boats arrived. Because this trend is expected to continue over the next several years, the Madagascan shrimp will quickly become an endangered species.
The argument states that the numbers of the Madagascan shrimp in their habitat has declined significantly due to the recent incursions of deep-sea fisherman into the habitat. I beleive that the premise of the argument is not cogent and will require further evidence for the argument to be proved beyond any reasonable doubt.
It can be possible that due to global warming, the predators that primarily relied on the shrimps for their sustenance might have migrated further south due to the warmer waters near the equatorial region of Madagascar, causing the population of the shrimps to grow exponentially without check in the past few years to such an extent that they have become a nuisance for other species of sea creatures and coral reefs which are present in the same habitat. Therefore, allowing the fishing operations in the region might in fact cause the number of shrimps to reduce to the point at which they were before the fishing boats had arrived and cause the habitat to flourish again.
It might also be possible, that the shrimp are in fact not a nuisance, therefore the United Nations is planning to pass an international resolution barring the hunting of shrimps in international waters after analysing the over exploitation being done by the fisherman, where most of the habitat of the shrimps is located, with an aim of protecting said species. This would cause the trend suggested by the second part of the argument to be reversed causing a growth in the number of shrimp which would surely eclipse their previous numbers and hence will not lead to their endangerment.
One could also say that the waters during the breeding season of the shrimp are quite tempestuos in the Madagascan region. The inclement climate during that period is not safe for any fishing activity, which has to be halted for a period of atleast six months. This break in such activities is more than sufficient for the shrimp population to return to its original levels thereby maintaining a balance in their numbers.
Therefore, we can safely state that unless the flaws pointed out within the argument are rebutted completely, so that not even a sliver of doubt can remain, the argument is clearly not valid.
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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: 10 15
No. of Words: 373 350
No. of Characters: 1809 1500
No. of Different Words: 187 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.395 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.85 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.548 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 37.3 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.24 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.4 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.722 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, second, so, therefore, as to, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1854.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 373.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97050938338 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61656704553 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520107238606 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 37.0 22.8473053892 162% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 101.963768075 57.8364921388 176% => OK
Chars per sentence: 185.4 119.503703932 155% => OK
Words per sentence: 37.3 23.324526521 160% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.9 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.213409685035 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0924504327512 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100488466349 0.0701772020484 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112829609097 0.128457276422 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0690217808949 0.0628817314937 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.6 14.3799401198 143% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.38 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.5 12.197005988 135% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.14 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 12.3882235529 157% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.8 11.1389221557 151% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.9071856287 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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