Chemists have determined that spring water from Augusta, Maine contains minerals necessary for a healthy body. Residents of Augusta, Maine, have a longer life span than the average U.S. citizen. Even though spring water from Augusta, Maine may be expensive, it is a superior choice over drinking general tap water.
How would you rate the accuracy of the above statement? Support your position with reasons and examples.
The author claims that the water from Augusta, Maine is enrich in minerals, which are necessary for healthy human body. The people of Augusta, Maine have a longer life span than the average U.S. citizen, which makes the spring water from Augusta, Maine as a superior choice over drinking tap water. Though his claims well have merits, but the author presents a poorly reasoned argument, based on several assumptions, and based solely on the evidence the author offers, we cannot accept his argument as valid.
The primary issue with author's reasoning lies in his unsubstantiated premises. the author claims that the spring water from Augusta, Maine is rich in many minerals, which are necessary for healthy human body, he did not consider this into account that, maybe the minerals which are present in the spring water in the Augusta is consumed by the U.S. people in various different form. The author also did not involve any evidence claiming that those minerals are only found in the spring water from Augusta, which makes this premises tenuous. Clearly, the author premises, the basis for his argument, lack any legitimate evidentiary support and render his conclusion unacceptable.
In addition, the author makes several assumptions that remains unproven. The author assumes that the longer life span of the residents of Augusta, Maine is due to the water they are drinking. The author completely obviate the fact the healthy and longer life span of the resident of Augusta is may be due to the lifestyle they are living. United States is a very fast growing country, the average life span of people of U.S. may be less as compared to the residents of Augusta, but this may be due to the stress, tension, work pressure or the life style they fellow. We simply can't make assumption, life span of an individual gets affected by many factors, but by not just drinking water.
While the author does have several issues in his argument's premises and assumption, that is not to say his whole argument is without base. For an individual to led a healthy life minerals, vitamins and nutritions plays a vital role. It is important for an individual to their body nutritions requirements. This can be possible the average U.S. is not imbibing proper nutritions which is required by their body, but it is illogical to say that it is completely due to the drinking water. By providing clarification and better research, the author can strengthen his argument significantly.
In sum, the author's irrational argument that the average U.S's life span is small as compared to the residents of Augusta due to the drinking water, is illogical. If author truly hope to change his reader's mind on the issue, he would largely have to restructure his argument, fix the flaws in his premises, clearly explicate his assumptions that the healthy and longer life span of the resident of Augusta is just because of their drinking water. Without these things, his poorly reasoned argument will likely to convince few people.
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Comments
Can someone please evaluate
Can someone please evaluate this argument and give me feedback on how can i improve and mainly, on what should i focus on improving..??
Thanks in advance.
I just found out you still
I just found out you still have grammar issues, look at following sentences, They have a lot of grammar errors:
Though his claims well have merits, but the author presents a poorly reasoned argument,
maybe the minerals which are present in the spring water in the Augusta is consumed by the U.S. people in various different form
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Also seems you didn't argue the conclusion:
Even though spring water from Augusta, Maine may be expensive, it is a superior choice over drinking general tap water
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 57, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'enriched'.
Suggestion: enriched
...s that the water from Augusta, Maine is enrich in minerals, which are necessary for he...
^^^^^^
Line 1, column 150, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (Maine) must be used with a third-person verb: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
...uman body. The people of Augusta, Maine have a longer life span than the average U.S...
^^^^
Line 3, column 80, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...g lies in his unsubstantiated premises. the author claims that the spring water fro...
^^^
Line 5, column 438, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...life span of people of U.S. may be less as compared to the residents of Augusta, b...
^^
Line 5, column 578, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...r the life style they fellow. We simply cant make assumption, life span of an indiv...
^^^^
Line 5, column 599, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... fellow. We simply cant make assumption, life span of an individual gets affected...
^^
Line 9, column 60, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Ss
... irrational argument that the average U.Ss life span is small as compared to the ...
^^
Line 9, column 100, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...Ss life span is small as compared to the residents of Augusta due to the drinking...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, then, well, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 28.8173652695 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2511.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 504.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98214285714 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57497107421 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.416666666667 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 793.8 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.2506614752 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.55 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.7 5.70786347227 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.402858419899 0.218282227539 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140552641794 0.0743258471296 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.143912439345 0.0701772020484 205% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.25257938557 0.128457276422 197% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11726880822 0.0628817314937 186% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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.