The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a national newspaper.
"Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in Elthyria maintains that the majority of competent workers who have lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment. But this claim is undermined by a recent report on the Elthyrian economy, which found that since 1999 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated, bringing the unemployment rate in Elthyria to its lowest level in decades. Moreover, two-thirds of these newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time."
*Downsizing is the process whereby corporations deliberately make themselves smaller, reducing the number of their employees.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The letter attempts to refute the information presented in an earlier article by a newspaper by citing various observations from a report to conclude that the article’s conclusion is fallacious and needs to be revised. However, the connection between the article and the report hasn’t been established and specific details are required to understand and validate the argument.
First, the letter mentions the article it is trying to refute and states that it talks about corporate downsizing and that many competent workers face economic hardship. It fails to mention the scope of this article and the groups covered. Information about the industries and the kind of jobs within those industries covered is needed to evaluate if it is a specific case or the general situation in Elthyria. Also, the size and variance in the population considered as the reference for the article is required to understand the implications of its conclusions. If the article is limited to a very specific industry with esoteric jobs which face these issues, then the argument against it citing a generic report would be irrelevant and wouldn’t refute it in any sense. Also, the time period considered by the author of the article is required to see if it is only talking about recent downsizing or has considered the historical employment trends like the report. If the article has covered similar industries, jobs, and time periods as the report, the report can be used to present evidence against it.
Furthermore, the argument mentions the difference in the creation and elimination of jobs as found in the report. It fails to mention the details of these jobs and the people filling in the new jobs. If the new jobs created are in no way related to the old jobs, it can leave many people unemployed as they may not possess the skills required for them. Additionally, more young people may be filling these newly created employment requirements while still keeping the recently fired competent workers out of employment. If this is true, the argument would be weakened as the downsized workers would still face the same hardships even when the employment numbers keep going up.
Finally, the argument mentions that the majority of new jobs are in industries with jobs paying above-average wages and a considerable proportion of them are full time. Again, if the earlier article has covered similar industries and types of jobs, this information would be useful in the argument against the article. However, if the earlier article talked about other industries with a different distribution of full time and part time jobs, this information would not help the argument and would in turn weaken it.
In summary, the argument presented requires a lot of evidence about the article called into question and the report being used to refute it to determine if the comparisons are valid and if the report can be successfully used to argue against the article. The validity of the argument can be determined only after establishing the connection between the details presented in the article and the report.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 512 350
No. of Characters: 2532 1500
No. of Different Words: 206 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.757 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.945 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.733 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 193 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 155 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 98 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.947 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.193 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.377 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.577 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.156 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 159, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
...d a considerable proportion of them are full time. Again, if the earlier article has cove...
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Line 7, column 415, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
...stries with a different distribution of full time and part time jobs, this information wo...
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Line 7, column 429, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...different distribution of full time and part time jobs, this information would not help t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, then, while, in summary, kind of, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 11.1786427146 197% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 33.0 16.3942115768 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2604.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 510.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10588235294 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82546502282 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.41568627451 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 828.0 705.55239521 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1270750033 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.052631579 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8421052632 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.10526315789 5.70786347227 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.141398823125 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0537294517229 0.0743258471296 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053527101638 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0797906264357 0.128457276422 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0507956492404 0.0628817314937 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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.