“The inflow of immigrant workers into our community has put a downward pressure on wages. In fact, the average compensation of unskilled labor in our city has declined by nearly 10% over the past 5 years. Therefore, to protect our local economy, it is essential to impose a moratorium on further immigration.”
The argument claims that the inflow of immigrant workers has put a downward pressure on wages, and is main reason behind the decline of average compensation of unskilled labor. Hence, to protect economy, it is essential to impose a moratorium on further immigration.
Stated in this way the argument fails to mention several key factors, on the basis of which it could be evaluated and reveals examples of leap of faith and poor reasoning.
The conclusion of the argument relies on assumptions, for which there is no clear evidence.
Therefore, the argument is weak,unconvincing, and has several flaws..
First, the argument readily assumes that inflow of immigrant workers has put a downward pressure on wages.
This statement is a stretch as there's no evidence provided for this claim. There can be several other factors which can cause downward pressure on wages. Even it can be the case that the inflow of immigrants is the one which is decreasing the pressure on the wages. This immigrants can provide a work-force, which will attract more industries and create more jobs with higher pay.
The argument could have been more clearer if it explicitly stated that inflow of immigrant workers is the main reason of downward pressure.
Second, the argument claims that average compensation of unskilled labor has declined because of inflow of immigrants. This is again a weak and unsupported claim as the argument does not demonstrate any correlation between the inflow of immigrants and decline in average compensation of unskilled labor. If the argument had provided the evidence that there is a correlation between the inflow of immigrants and decline in average compensation by citing research data then the argument would have been strenthened further.
Finally, the argument claims that to protect local economy, it is essential to impose a moratorium on further immigration. This claim leads us to several questions: Wheter all the economy even without immigration workers are facing the downward pressure on wages. May be world economy is going downwards due to other factors.
If imposed a moratorium, will local economy be protected? May be it can have negative effects.
Without convincing answers to these questions, one is left with the impression that claim is more of a wishful thinking rather substantive evidence.
In summary, the argument is flawed for the above-mentioned reasons and is therefore unconvincing. It could be considerably strengthened if the author provided all the relevant facts. In order to assess merits of a certain situation, it is essential to have full knowledge of all the contributing factors. In this particular case, current world econmic trend as well as impact of inflow of immigrants with reserach data are essential.
Without this information, the argument remains unsubstantiated and open to debate.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , unconvincing
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Message: Two consecutive dots
Suggestion: .
...weak,unconvincing, and has several flaws.. First, the argument readily assumes ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: there's
...wages. This statement is a stretch as theres no evidence provided for this claim. Th...
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Line 7, column 267, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: These
...s decreasing the pressure on the wages. This immigrants can provide a work-force, wh...
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Line 8, column 30, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'clearer' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: clearer
...gher pay. The argument could have been more clearer if it explicitly stated that inflow of ...
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Line 14, column 59, Rule ID: MAY_BE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maybe' (=perhaps)?
Suggestion: Maybe
...orium, will local economy be protected? May be it can have negative effects. Without...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, well, in summary, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 30.0 16.3942115768 183% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2421.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 455.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32087912088 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99243178525 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.424175824176 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 754.2 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.8169312305 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.84 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.76 5.70786347227 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 13.0 5.15768463074 252% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 17.0 6.88822355289 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.206164995574 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0702542623113 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0828020515687 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0872504956786 0.128457276422 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0955947562568 0.0628817314937 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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