The following opinion was provided in a letter to the editor of a national aeronautics magazine:
“Manned space flight is costly and dangerous. Moreover, the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites has demonstrated that a great deal of useful information can be gathered without the costs and risks associated with sending men and women into space. Therefore, we should invest our resources in unmanned space flight.""
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
We have seen machines around us for years. Every day we try and keep bettering the technology, and yet the most powerful tool a man has is its brain and its own body, building out such machines. We started making machines to lessen our physical costs. Space flight has been a sector unachievable by us, physically. Nevertheless, we had the intellect to make unmanned probes to do the job for us. We have now outdone ourselves and are capable of sending out people in space. The reason for the continuous betterment of the technology is their own limitations. The author points out that manned space flights are costlier than unmanned space projects but has avoided noting the two-part return on the investment. First, the tasks done by humans in space are highly personalized and the limitations of the work done by a human are infinitesimal with respect to the limitations faced by the probes. Second, to reach a human level sophistication of any task, the cost associated with the upgrade of the current technologies could be higher than what it would cost the organization to send out humans in space.
The author, however, is right about the risk factor associated with manned space flights. Having said that, the risk associated with flying in an airplane was also high enough when it was in the development phase. The risk behind the task was what made plane-building so sophisticated and ultimately it revolutionized human travel. The risk factor always leads people to work harder and take a huge leap technologically and by doing so, we are opening up the door to something that could revolutionize the world in a way that no one can imagine.
Behind every such big action, there is a price associated, monetary or otherwise. To avoid doing so and be satisfied with what we have in hand right now is against the human evolutionary process. So the organization should definitely invest their resources in bettering the technologies to make manned space flights safely possible and to open new avenues for the human brain.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 345 350
No. of Characters: 1653 1500
No. of Different Words: 186 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.31 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.791 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.815 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 107 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 70 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.294 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.498 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.309 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.456 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.155 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 57, Rule ID: TRY_AND[1]
Message: "Try and" is common in colloquial speech, but "'try to'" is recommended for writing.
Suggestion: try to
...hines around us for years. Every day we try and keep bettering the technology, and yet ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, nevertheless, second, so, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1695.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 345.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91304347826 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87663599654 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.559420289855 0.468620217663 119% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 705.55239521 76% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.4962348296 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.7058823529 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2941176471 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.70786347227 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142574591637 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0497796379194 0.0743258471296 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0518712194893 0.0701772020484 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0911165653727 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0409663971102 0.0628817314937 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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