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.
The author claims that one can only understand the essence of an idea when one is being forced to defend its idea against an opposing viewpoint. To which I concur because of myraid reasons, and would delve into the reasons in subsequents paragraphs.
Firstly, ideas are product of human thinking and just like a person's mettle is tested by his ability to resurge and also to stand firmly in situations where odds are not in his favour, in the same way ideas are also tested. The ideas might have loopholes or defects which the person might not see and might fail to actually comprehend the efficacy of his idea, it is odds and different situation through which he/she can know the credibility of idea and its significance in multiple situation. presenting ideas in different situations only makes that idea better becuase we keep on moulding our ideas in the quest to defend our idea and when we convince one about our vision the endproduct is breathe-taking.
Secondly, there is nothing to loose and much to gain. By doing this exercise one is never loosing, its always either you got know the significance of your idea or about the weakness of your idea which needs restitution. By testing ideas one can learn varied possible applications of ideas. For ex: in my case I had an idea about the usage of shperical bottom glasses for asthetic purposes, when I presented my idea to my friend for starting a business of such glasses he denounced it conspicuously. While denying about the defects of my business I came to know that this can be very much useful in case of bars. In bars one can use it to play a game of continously drinking without keeing the glass down, this will help the bar burgeon and help me in selling these types of glasses.
but there is also a downside to it, when one becomes totally possed with his/her ideas and when presented with strikingly opposing viewpoints he/she might think that you are mocking his idea and in a quest to prove you wrong he might forget the linchpin purpose of this argument and might start attacking personally or just avoid the argument. hence there are situation where we need to take actions where we might need to concur to their ideas and make them believe that the idea is good but have some loopholes. For example- when I demanded a bike to my wife, we had an furious argument over it. Then the next day she came to me and told me that you can take the bike, but we would not be able to use it in summer due to too much heat, similarly cannot use it in monsoon and hence I realized that car would be a better option than bike.
The author claims that one can only understand the essence of an idea when one is being forced to defend its idea against an opposing viewpoint. To which I concur because of myraid reasons, and would delve into the reasons in subsequents paragraphs.
Firstly, ideas are product of human thinking and just like a person's mettle is tested by his ability to resurge and also to stand firmly in situations where odds are not in his favour, in the same way ideas are also tested. The ideas might have loopholes or defects which the person might not see and might fail to actually comprehend the efficacy of his idea, it is odds and different situation through which he/she can know the credibility of idea and its significance in multiple situation. presenting ideas in different situations only makes that idea better becuase we keep on moulding our ideas in the quest to defend our idea and when we convince one about our vision the endproduct is breathe-taking.
Secondly, there is nothing to loose and much to gain. By doing this exercise one is never loosing, its always either you got know the significance of your idea or about the weakness of your idea which needs restitution. By testing ideas one can learn varied possible applications of ideas. For ex: in my case I had an idea about the usage of shperical bottom glasses for asthetic purposes, when I presented my idea to my friend for starting a business of such glasses he denounced it conspicuously. While denying about the defects of my business I came to know that this can be very much useful in case of bars. In bars one can use it to play a game of continously drinking without keeing the glass down, this will help the bar burgeon and help me in selling these types of glasses.
but there is also a downside to it, when one becomes totally possed with his/her ideas and when presented with strikingly opposing viewpoints he/she might think that you are mocking his idea and in a quest to prove you wrong he might forget the linchpin purpose of this argument and might start attacking personally or just avoid the argument. hence there are situation where we need to take actions where we might need to concur to their ideas and make them believe that the idea is good but have some loopholes. For example- when I demanded a bike to my wife, we had an furious argument over it. Then the next day she came to me and told me that you can take the bike, but we would not be able to use it in summer due to too much heat, similarly cannot use it in monsoon and hence I realized that car would be a better option than bike.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 62, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...oduct of human thinking and just like a persons mettle is tested by his ability to resu...
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Line 3, column 173, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rmly in situations where odds are not in his favour, in the same way ideas are al...
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Line 3, column 496, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Presenting
...its significance in multiple situation. presenting ideas in different situations only make...
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Line 5, column 31, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[3]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
...aking. Secondly, there is nothing to loose and much to gain. By doing this exercis...
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Line 5, column 100, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...ing this exercise one is never loosing, its always either you got know the signific...
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Line 5, column 500, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” 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.
... glasses he denounced it conspicuously. While denying about the defects of my busines...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
...e in selling these types of glasses. but there is also a downside to it, when on...
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Line 7, column 345, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Hence
... personally or just avoid the argument. hence there are situation where we need to ta...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 345, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: hence,
... personally or just avoid the argument. hence there are situation where we need to ta...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 361, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'situations'?
Suggestion: situations
...ust avoid the argument. hence there are situation where we need to take actions where we ...
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Line 7, column 570, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...en I demanded a bike to my wife, we had an furious argument over it. Then the next...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, similarly, so, then, while, for example, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 33.0505617978 200% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2125.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 470.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.52127659574 5.05705443957 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65612321451 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4483889438 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489361702128 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 676.8 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => 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: 31.0 23.0359550562 135% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 77.7979148535 60.3974514979 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.666666667 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.3333333333 23.4991977007 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.13333333333 5.21951772744 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.284819193913 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103503250001 0.0831039109588 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114733732487 0.0758088955206 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215434575775 0.150359130593 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109695828771 0.0667264976115 164% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.93 48.8420337079 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.53 12.1639044944 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.2143820225 128% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.