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.
It is true to some extent that the best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with a opposing viewpoint and I would partly agree with the claim along with the reason stated. However, it is only to some degree, though greater, that the given claim is true. I will enumerate all my view points and opinions in the following paragraph
To start with, let's take a classical day-to-day happening example where a group of friends are embroiled in a serious discussion. It could be about anything, trivial or moment, but for the sake of an example, let us assume that they are involved in a conversation about deciding the stream to take in Masters and thus, deciding their careers. I would like to shed some light here about our fickle minded youth and the ambiguity that persists about these things, to some extent even nullifying the drastic advancements of technology and information. Okay, so coming back to our group of friends, who are deliberating different coursework of various colleges; and say, all of them but one have fixed their stream. That one person is strongly against the stream his friends took and wants to pursue a completely different course - which has minimal scope. This is the exact place where his friends try to talk sense and make their stance clear by posing opposing viewpoints and pointing out all the fallacies of his opinion. It is not completely persuasive, but it is that essence of an argument which makes it healthy. I am exemplifying it to be purely positive work by those friends because this is a real life story and how that healthy argument changed my cousin's career for better ( Yes, that one miscast friend was my cousin). This is just an example, but I'm sure there's millions of other such stories to back up the given claim. A person entitled to his own opinions, might not always see the other side of a coin. And this same person, who is strongly attached to own viewpoint might not pay heed to others opinions. But when the same is done with an opposing viewpoint, it could prove to be vital. To some extent, we can say that is how the human brain works too! Negatives are taken in and processed faster than mere positives.
However, it is not always true that an opposing viewpoint has to be the best test for an argument. An argument just as such, can speak for itself too. Consider some other example where, again a peer group is discussing about rapes and its victims of their nation. One does not certainly need a counter argument for this. Though, day in and day out, people claim no one is perfect, and how they perceive right and wrong still to be a grey area, criminal acts like these are fundamentally wrong. No matter how much one tries to defend such a shambolic act, at the end of the day, it is still WRONG! And here I hold my position to explain why it is not a necessity for an argument to always hold true only with an opposing viewpoint.
Like I mentioned before, people are entitled to their own opinions, but the interesting arguments that can arise from those forms the important link between others viewpoints. Hence, I would like to conclude here by saying, an argument can speak for itself, only sometimes and not always
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, so, still, thus, as to, it is true, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 33.0505617978 188% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2639.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 572.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.61363636364 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89045207381 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46268658604 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503496503497 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 814.5 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 6.24550561798 272% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.2527167788 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.739130435 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8695652174 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21739130435 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316109638251 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0973340407 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100305067375 0.0758088955206 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211983920316 0.150359130593 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0874943251417 0.0667264976115 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 48.8420337079 131% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 12.1639044944 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => 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: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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