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 author states that the population of artic deers has been declining due to the global warming - as the deers cannot migrate to the age old migration pattern. The argument of the author does not provide a solid reasoning as to why he has come to this conclusion. In order for the recommendations by the author to be valid these questions must be answered.
Firstly, the author assumes that the decline in the number of artic deers in Canada is due to melting of the ice, which is caused by global warming. It is possible that there might have been preditors in the areas encompassing the island. For instance, there might have been a leopard in the area - a known preditor of deer. If the locals can attest to the fact that they have seen a preditor in the area, only the this argument can be evaluated - till then the author's argument does not hold water.
Secondly, there is a possibility that some of the deers might have fallen sick due to disease which might have resulted in increaased deaths of the deers. To which, local hunters assumed that it might have been due to the global warming. For example, an epidemic is often capable to kill a large number of living things. The author's argument does not hold water.
Finally, it is possible that the report by the local hunters is not authentic. In order for the author's argument to hold ground, it i suggested that the local hunters or the city council might conduct a survey which can prove helpful to strehgthen the author's claim.
In conclusion, the argument of the author is flawed on many levels. It is suggested that if the author can provide with a survey cinducted by researchers, only then the author's argument can be evaluated.
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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: 15 15
No. of Words: 302 350
No. of Characters: 1364 1500
No. of Different Words: 133 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.169 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.517 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.394 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 92 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 64 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 41 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 20 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.133 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.745 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.394 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.607 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.126 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 206, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... argument of the author does not provide a solid reasoning as to why he has come ...
^^
Line 5, column 412, Rule ID: DT_DT[2]
Message: Maybe you need to remove the second determiner so that only 'the' or 'this' is left.
Suggestion: the; this
... have seen a preditor in the area, only the this argument can be evaluated - till then t...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 463, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...gument can be evaluated - till then the authors argument does not hold water. Seco...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 39, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... Secondly, there is a possibility that some of the deers might have fallen sick due to dis...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 289, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...e, an epidemic is often capable to kill a large number of living things. The authors argument doe...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 326, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ll a large number of living things. The authors argument does not hold water. Fina...
^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 97, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ters is not authentic. In order for the authors argument to hold ground, it i suggested...
^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 133, Rule ID: I_LOWERCASE[2]
Message: Did you mean 'I'?
Suggestion: I
...the authors argument to hold ground, it i suggested that the local hunters or the...
^
Line 17, column 170, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...cinducted by researchers, only then the authors argument can be evaluated.
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 11.1786427146 9% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1415.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 302.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.68543046358 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48237214359 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 204.123752495 66% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.443708609272 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 432.0 705.55239521 61% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5855478876 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.3333333333 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1333333333 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.93333333333 5.70786347227 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.0934440998258 0.218282227539 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0368277807141 0.0743258471296 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0359104784958 0.0701772020484 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0526010168272 0.128457276422 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0465852808274 0.0628817314937 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 48.3550499002 141% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.5979740519 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 98.500998004 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => 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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