The best test of an argument is the argument's ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
It is a difficult task to determine whether or not an argument is a good one or not. An argument can be considered to be a good one if it uses a lot of sources both for and few against it or as the prompt says its ability to convince people of its merits. I mostly disagree with the best test of an argument being its ability to convince others.
Firstly, people can be adamant supporters of their point of view so much so that they will hold their own position regarless of how good the arguments could be put forth. Many people could be very zealous so much so that logic fails to overcome emotion in their interpritations. Take for example a debate over whether or not police officers should wear body cameras. Someone could say that it costs too much money for the city to buy expensive cameras for thousands of police officers. This is a good argument since the city is under financial pressures. However, if it was tested by trying to convince an emotional mother whose only child was killed in an unjustified shooting and to top it all off, accusing the officer involved of racism, she may very well disregard the good argument due to her overwhelming emotions.
In addition, there could be unfavorable options and arguments selecting one of them can end up convincing others of an even worse position. This means that a bad argument would be incorrectly classified as a good argument. To illustrate, suppose that the city decides to take away funding from either schools or hospitals in order to reduce a budget deficit. One governer says that hospitals should have less funding because hospitals already have doctors that are paid very generously. If another city governer accepts this argument though in reality it would have been better to take unspent funds from schools and not to make hospitals suffer, this context makes this argument a poor one since there is a situation in which the schools and hospitals would have not been hurt. Since a test was used to see by how it convinces others, it would be classified as a good one. Even more so, with the use of a fallacious reasoning. Thus, this is a poor test for an argument.
On the other hand, an argument which is able to convince others can be a good test. People are often conscious of the feasibility of courses of action and how it could be effective. If a debate arises and the person who gets all of its members on board that argument is a good one. For instance, a neighborhood debating how to deal with a noisy street can reach a deal on how to recitify the problem if one of them gets all others to agree on the same plan. When they all agree to petition to the city and not one of them disagrees, they can get enough signatures to help change how strictly a curfew is enacted at a certain time. Thus, the ability of an argument to convince people can make it a good one since it makes a rectifying action happen.
All in all this is a compelx issue in which no one extreme can be taken.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
It is a difficult task to determine whether or not an argument is a good one or not. An ar...
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Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...tations. Take for example a debate over whether or not police officers should wear body camera...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, may, so, thus, well, as for, for example, for instance, in addition, of course, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2434.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 543.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.48250460405 5.05705443957 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82725184711 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51937336409 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453038674033 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 787.5 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.6076873305 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.416666667 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.625 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211707984081 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0790716499964 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0754151088581 0.0758088955206 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131825915515 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0632322290202 0.0667264976115 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.1392134831 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.0 12.1639044944 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.