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Claim: The best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
Reason: Only by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views of others does one really discover the value of that idea.
There are many ways to test an argument. Some might state that persuading someone with competing views is the best mean to evaluate an argument because only by being forced to defend an idea against doubts and different opinions would help one to advance the value of hie or her idea. However, I believe convincing others with different opinions would be a good way to test an argument but not the best way.
Admittedly, persuasion skills could be considered good method to test one’s argument especially in scientific field. To prove hypothesis, scientists and researchers provide reasonable evidence based on which they persuade people to believe their discoveries. If the public do not buy their findings, their findings would be futile. Thus, they must succeed in encouraging people to change their perspective and believe their findings. Galileo Galilei would be an appealing example. In the past, while people believe in heliocentrism, he insisted on that geocentric theory that the Earth is considered to be the center of the solar system. Even though people initially opposed to his opinions, he kept adhere to his theory and did not give up persuading people. Ultimately, people began to believe his argument, which advanced the field of space science. As seen in this example, it is somewhat credible to that convincing people with different perspectives would be a reliable method to measure an argument.
However, convincing others with opposing viewpoints is not the best test of an argument because there are other factors are responsible to affect people’s opinions. Thus, even though an argument seems weak, it is possible to persuade people to support the argument due to rhetoric, circumstantial, and emotional influences. Take Adolf Hitler, for example. His ideology of eliminating Jewish people through massive homicide would have not been reasonable to the eyes of objective people. However, his strong speech and conviction impressed the public, leading the standing ovation, and many Germans followed his commends and killed millions of Jewish people. In addition, those with lack of cognitive and intellectual abilities, they could not understand the key points of arguments which require high levels of intellectual understanding. In the case, people with lack of learning easily believe arguments made by highly educated people, elites, and politicians. Accordingly, it is plausible to disagree that making other people to accept a contention is the best indicator of evaluating the contention.
In conclusion, all things considered, the idea that to convince others with different thoughts is the best way to test the argument. One’s ability to persuade others does not solely contribute to influence others making decision. Many possible variables should be adequately considered.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, however, if, so, thus, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2385.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 439.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43280182232 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87785784642 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530751708428 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 739.8 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.3727766842 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.695652174 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0869565217 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.78260869565 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348155900723 0.243740707755 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101895522428 0.0831039109588 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112588706561 0.0758088955206 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245370423259 0.150359130593 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.13432705897 0.0667264976115 201% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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