The writer claims that the habitat of Arctic deer has a temperature range that is warm enough for the plants the deer fed on to grow and cold enough for the ice to maintain solid for deer to walk across. Also, according to the local hunters, there is a decline in the population of the deer, matching with the melting ice caused by global warming. Hence, the writer concludes that global warming breaks the immigration pattern of the deer and leads to the declination. However, the writer oversimplifies the problem based on several reasons.
To begin with, due to global warming that leads to a higher temperature, it is reasonable for the writer to ascribe the decline of population to the melting ice, since the living space of Arctic deer is limited. Yet, the writer ignores that the higher temperature can have dramatic influence on plants. In fact, temperature not only affects the phase of water, but also affect plant growth. It is widely accepted that plants are sensitive to temperature, humidity, sunshine, and other environmental variations. If the plants that the deer fed on can be nutritious enough only in a certain condition, rising temperature will be vital to them. As a consequence, without sufficient food supply, it is not possible for Arctic deer to maintain its population.
Moreover, the statement that the population of the deer has declined is based on local hunters’ experiences and observations, which is not convincing because hunting areas of hunters are limited. For hunters, it is unlikely for them to reach places that the cost on energy and resources during the trip surpass the overall profit, nevertheless, the deer might migrate in different pattern to adapt to the environmental variations. For example, if the ice is truly melting and blocking Artic deer from migrating in their age-old pattern, the deer might move north to a higher latitude where the water still remains solid. As a result, it is reasonable for the local hunters to make the conclusion that the population of deer is decreasing, since they are unable to find Arctic deer existing in places where they used to be. To be more precise, the population of deer still remains the same, they are just living in places that local hunters are unfamiliar with.
Finally, facing issue about decreasing population of Arctic deer, the writer claims that the melting ice caused by global warming is destroying the habitat of Arctic deer, which leads to a decline in its number. In other words, the writer considers the declination is happening among all ages of the Arctic deer. However, to affect the population of a certain species, the birth rate and the death rate of its infants are also significant factors. Baby deer are more vulnerable to threats such as enemies, environmental changes and deceases. Likewise, an unbalance in gender might also be a factor to decrease the birth rate of Arctic deer. Hence, it is necessary to have more specific details and evidence about the population of the Arctic deer. To do so, scientists can randomly capture some deer and install GPS system on their bodies to gain data of their locations and surroundings.
In sum, global warming is truly showing some harmful effect toward the bio-system supported by credible scientific research and observation. However, there is no direct evidence in the article indicating that the population of Artic deer is declining due to global warming, which weakens the argument.
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not exactly
argument 3 -- not exactly
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 576 350
No. of Characters: 2807 1500
No. of Different Words: 238 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.899 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.873 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.631 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 212 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 149 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.66 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.792 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.521 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.114 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, likewise, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, for example, in fact, such as, as a result, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 83.0 55.5748502994 149% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2896.0 2260.96107784 128% => OK
No of words: 576.0 441.139720559 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02777777778 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74494265257 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434027777778 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 907.2 705.55239521 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.22255489022 261% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2086902601 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.666666667 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58333333333 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249686272837 0.218282227539 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0726040588467 0.0743258471296 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631258874642 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143370042864 0.128457276422 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0559517250632 0.0628817314937 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 98.500998004 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.