Arctic deer live on islands in Canada's arctic regions. They search for food by moving over ice from island to island during the course of the year. Their habitat is limited to areas warm enough to sustain the plants on which they feed and cold enough, at least some of the year, for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands, allowing the deer to travel over it. Unfortunately, according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining. Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the purported decline in deer populations is the result of the deer's being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea.
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 given argument deals with the Arctic deer in the islands of Canada’s arctic regions and the effect of global warming on their survival. The author has reached to the conclusion that the deer population is decreasing since they are not able to migrate to other islands owing to the increase in global warming. However, there is not enough evidence to reach this conclusion and along with global warming having an effect, several other factors need to be considered.
Firstly, the author has relied on the report from local hunters to say that the deer populations are declining. However, we do not know anything about the credibility of the numbers they have reported. Instead, a report from a reputed organisation who is known to record accurate numbers should have been considered. For stronger evidence, other people who live in and around the district could have been asked for their view on the decreasing number of deer in the area. If their opinions match with that of the hunters, it is safe to say that the author's argument will be strengthened.
Secondly, there is no fact here which shows that global warming has caused the resources, which are necessary for survival, to diminish. It is true that global warming may have caused the ice to melt making it difficult for the animals to migrate but in the end what living organisms depend on for their survival is water and food, not the fact that whether an animal is able to cross from one island to another. If the increasing temperature gives a good opportunity for plants to grow out and deer could feed on them without starvation, the severe impact of weather will be in great doubt and the author's argument will be weakened.
Thirdly, the declining rate of deer could be as a result of deer’s hunting. We are unaware of the policies of the government in that region regarding hunting. We are also do not know about the perspective of the people living there about hunting. Since the deer are unable to migrate, it is likely that they must have settled on the same island making it easier for the hunters to locate them.
Finally, to sum up, the author has based his assumption on inaccurate information. Therefore, the result that global warming is the main reason for decreasing deer population is not logically sound and more proofs are needed to get to a proper conclusion.
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Comments
e-rater score 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: 17 15
No. of Words: 407 350
No. of Characters: 1902 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.492 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.673 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.408 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.941 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.914 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.706 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.322 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.574 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 550, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...the hunters, it is safe to say that the authors argument will be strengthened. Secon...
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Line 5, column 601, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... weather will be in great doubt and the authors argument will be weakened. Thirdly, ...
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Line 7, column 172, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'done'.
Suggestion: done
...t region regarding hunting. We are also do not know about the perspective of the p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, as a result, it is true, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1956.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 407.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8058968059 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52840475869 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479115479115 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 608.4 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.5848479671 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.058823529 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9411764706 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.05882352941 5.70786347227 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.259799649935 0.218282227539 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0765596933143 0.0743258471296 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680572210861 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133159471565 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622646967558 0.0628817314937 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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