My car broke down yesterday, and I need a car to get to work. Therefore, I should buy a new car.
The author claims here that he should buy a new car. Stated in this way, the argument reveals several instances of poor reasoning and ill-defined terminology. To justify this conclusion, the author notes that his car is broken and he needs to drive with his own car to go to work. However, scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support for the author’s recommendation. Hence the argument can be considered unsubstantiated.
First of all, the argument readily assumes that he cannot repair and fix his car. This is merely an assumption made without much solid ground. For example, by paying a little amount of money, any major problem of most cars can be fixed in a short time. Hence, the argument would have been much more convincing if it explicitly stated that the car is unfixable or it has very major problems which needs too much money to fix.
The argument readily claims that he cannot ask his friends, family members, or coworkers to borrow their cars or give him a ride to work. This again is a weak and unsupported claim as it does not demonstrate any clear correlation between the broken car and buying a new car. cannot he easily ask his family members to borrow their car? If the argument had provided evidence that borrowing a car was not possible; then, it would have been a lot more convincing to the reader.
Finally, the author cites that the only way to go to work is to drive by his private car. However, scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support for the author’s conclusion in several critical respects, and raises several skeptical questions. For example, the writer can use public transportation such as a bus or subway to go to work or if it is not far, he can ride by bicycle. Without convincing answers to these questions, the reader is left with the impression that the claims made by the author are more of a wishful thinking rather than substantive evidence.
In conclusion, the author’s argument is unpersuasive as it stands. To bolster it further, the author must provide better evidence, perhaps by way of a reliable analysis of the reasons why he needs a new car. Finally, to better evaluate the survey, it would be necessary to know more information about why it is not possible to fix the car? why borrowing a car from family members or coworkers is not an option? and why he does not use public transportation to go to work?
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 426 350
No. of Characters: 1947 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.543 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.57 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.614 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.421 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.117 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.349 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.548 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.138 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 398, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...upport for the author’s recommendation. Hence the argument can be considered unsubsta...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 276, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Cannot
...en the broken car and buying a new car. cannot he easily ask his family members to bor...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 293, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'asks'.
Suggestion: asks
... and buying a new car. cannot he easily ask his family members to borrow their car?...
^^^
Line 9, column 341, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Why
... why it is not possible to fix the car? why borrowing a car from family members or ...
^^^
Line 9, column 412, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
... members or coworkers is not an option? and why he does not use public transportati...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, however, if, so, then, for example, in conclusion, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2015.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 426.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73004694836 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54310108192 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71730523004 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.446009389671 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 629.1 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.382138719 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.5909090909 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3636363636 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.31818181818 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285004028954 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0984141362028 0.0743258471296 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0943522489229 0.0701772020484 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18108235506 0.128457276422 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0662806617854 0.0628817314937 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.3799401198 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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