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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the
claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
An argument generally is based on some underlying assumptions, implications from relevant data, and certain cases that challenge the argument. The claim states that the best way to assess an argument is to be able to convince an argument of the opposite viewpoint. The reason for this claim is provided that such a convincing discussion would address all the doubts, question the underlying assumptions, get unbiased conclusions from data, and get logical solutions to the situations that challenge the argument. This would be true when the greater benefit of the audience who gets affected by the conclusion of the argument is in mind in both the minds of the people discussing. A healthy discussion by two people having relevant knowledge on understanding the complexity of the argument and critically analyzing the various angles of an argument can result in a conclusion that is beneficial to the people.
However, this does not hold true if the person with the opposite viewpoint holds great biases and prejudices that are not healthy. For example, an argument involving a right for migratory people as equal as native citizens involves the person to hold no strong-rooted grudges towards that race, let no racial discrimination affect his argument, and use his critical mind only for the benefit of the humans involved. But if this person has biased opinions towards migrators, then it gets very difficult to question his beliefs and prejudices as they could be formed because of former past influences of societies and lives. A person like Hitler with strong biases in his race cannot be enlightened about the importance of humanity and take decisions accordingly. In that case, before the person can be convinced, there are chances of irreparable damage happening to the ones involved.
In an era where Sati practice was followed where women were burnt along with their dead husbands, it took years of persistent efforts of social reformers and a lot of bloodsheds to change the society heads’ minds and thus abolish the practice. Even though the equal rights of women were consistently addressed, it was the notions of women to be inferior to men in the minds of men then that took a lot of time to change. So, it always doesn’t work that an argument’s potential or benefit can be tested only with a counterargument having the opposite view.
Thus as much as I can see the potential in the benefit caused by a counterargument to assess an argument, it cannot hold true in all the situations. There are several factors attributing to the people involved that can influence the success of a convincing proposal.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, however, if, so, then, thus, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2194.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 436.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03211009174 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8941246364 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502293577982 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 682.2 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 52.6449744357 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.266666667 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0666666667 23.4991977007 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.86666666667 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223761043772 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0854083713991 0.0831039109588 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0814301789666 0.0758088955206 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128128012005 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047816109941 0.0667264976115 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.8420337079 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.49 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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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.