Claim: In any situation, the best way to persuade other people is to present them with facts and statistics rather than with emotional arguments.
Reason: Facts are objective, so they are more persuasive than subjective appeals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
I only partly agree with this claim, as the underlying reason of this claim only apply in some situations, namely when the persuaders and the audiences are too different to share any kinds of empathy.
As long as a feeling of empathy is successfully built between the persuaders and the their target audience, arguments based on emotions are almost invariably more powerful than those based on facts. Human beings are emotionally driven animals: sometimes, the emotions can be so strong as to drive people to adopt beliefs and practices that are against reason and facts. The Hitler's ascendency is a case in point. While Hitler accusations against Jewish people not only were unfounded but also terribly distorted facts, Hitler successfully build an emotional connections between him and the public by using their shared identity as Germanic people, thereby winning the ferocious support of people. In this case, the power of emotion based on shared identity overwhelmed facts.
Admittedly, facts may be more persuasive than emotional arguments when other people cannot empathize with the emotional appeals. Due to differences in backgounds and experiences, others may not identify with the emotions of the persuaders. Take the task of persuading teachers against stereotypes of ethnic minorities students as an examples. Some of the conventional teachers that belong to the older generation may hold stereotypes that ethnic minorities children are all lazy and incompetent. And when they hear persuasions that their stereotypes can hurt children's feelings, they may shrug the persuasion off, saying "I'm only telling the truth." Such stubborn stereotypes may be due to the fact that these teachers have been surrounded by discriminative discourse against ethnic minority children for their whole life. In this case, it may be more effective to use facts to persuade them, such as scientific research showing ethnic minorities are no less intelligent or competent than their peers when given education that are suitable for them and when they are respected by teachers.
Based on my analysis of the reason, the best way should be a combination of facts and emotions.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 82, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
...sfully built between the persuaders and the their target audience, arguments based on emo...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 559, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'connection'?
Suggestion: connection
... Hitler successfully build an emotional connections between him and the public by using the...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 331, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an example' or simply 'examples'?
Suggestion: an example; examples
...otypes of ethnic minorities students as an examples. Some of the conventional teachers that...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 344, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...nic minorities students as an examples. Some of the conventional teachers that belong to th...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 628, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I'm
... shrug the persuasion off, saying 'Im only telling the truth.' Such stub...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, while, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 58.6224719101 70% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1842.0 2235.4752809 82% => OK
No of words: 343.0 442.535393258 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37026239067 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85838908978 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 215.323595506 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.562682215743 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 570.6 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.0410578722 60.3974514979 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.692307692 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3846153846 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.46153846154 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252155856026 0.243740707755 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0924362073857 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0849943792231 0.0758088955206 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14062448315 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0358358491436 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.1392134831 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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: 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 82, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
...sfully built between the persuaders and the their target audience, arguments based on emo...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 559, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'connection'?
Suggestion: connection
... Hitler successfully build an emotional connections between him and the public by using the...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 331, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an example' or simply 'examples'?
Suggestion: an example; examples
...otypes of ethnic minorities students as an examples. Some of the conventional teachers that...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 344, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...nic minorities students as an examples. Some of the conventional teachers that belong to th...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 628, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I'm
... shrug the persuasion off, saying 'Im only telling the truth.' Such stub...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, while, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 58.6224719101 70% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1842.0 2235.4752809 82% => OK
No of words: 343.0 442.535393258 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37026239067 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85838908978 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 215.323595506 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.562682215743 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 570.6 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.0410578722 60.3974514979 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.692307692 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3846153846 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.46153846154 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252155856026 0.243740707755 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0924362073857 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0849943792231 0.0758088955206 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14062448315 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0358358491436 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.1392134831 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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: 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.