"Over the past year, the Crust Copper Company (CCC) has purchased over 10,000 square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia. Mining copper on this land will inevitably result in pollution and, since West Fredonia is the home of several endangered animal species, in the environmental disaster. But such disasters can be prevented if consumers simply refuse to purchase products that are made with CCC's copper unless the company abandons its mining plans."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument stated that the Crust Copper Company (CCC) have already purchased lands in tropical areas for the use of exhaling copper, and this will result in environmental disaster that corrupts the living environment for endangered animal species, and the author suggests that this can be prevented by stop using the products with their copper to let them stop mining from those regions. The argument at first glance seems plausible, however on scrupulous analysis, it is found to be rife with holes and assumptions. assumptions. A valid stand can be taken on this argument only after the evidence required to evaluate the argument is thoroughly analyzed.
The arguments states that mining done by the Crust Copper Company will for sure lead to the extinction of endangered species in West Fredonia and ultimately leading to environmental destruction. However, there has been tremendous progress in environmental technology and mining technology. These technologies can help mitigate the damage caused by mining. The use of eco-friendly processes to extract minerals can be used and possible damage from contaminants can be assuaged. Therefore, it is not clear whether the mining will cause tremendous environmental damage and further research is required to ascertain the facts.
Moreover, the author claims that the life of many endangered species will be in danger of extinction. There is no data given regarding the geographical location of these species and the land owned by the mining corporation. If the species are concentrated in a small area, then the mining will not have any deletrious effects on the animal population. Also, the total area of West Fredonia is unknown. The area bought by the CCC can be peanuts compared to the area of the nation. Hence, more information regarding the country and geographical locations of the endangered species an mining corporation is required to form an accurate opinion.
Additionally, the author claims that if consumers simply refuse to buy CCC products, the company will be forced to abandon its plans to contruct a copper plant. Copper is used in a multitude of things ranging from mobiles phones to cooking utensils and from satellites to jewellery. If the CCC is indeed one of the major copper manufacturers, it will be impossible to not buy their products without sacrificing some of the amenities we enjoy. It might also be possible that the copper requirements in West Fredonia are low but the exports are high. A loss in mining revenue might be disastrous for the nation as a whole. Moreover, if the CCC abandons its plans, there is no restriction stoppping other companies to mine.
The argument consists of weak ideas, mixed issues and equivocal claims due to the flaws mentioned above in the line of reasoning. There is a possibility that the company may abandon its plans if the use of their copper is stopped, but the reasoning given is rife with flaws and inaccuracies. Therefore, it is extremely important to find the evidences that support the claims of the author. And only after finding the evidences, the following topic
can be strengthened.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 509 350
No. of Characters: 2558 1500
No. of Different Words: 239 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.75 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.026 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.808 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 190 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 142 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 69 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.208 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.364 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.274 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.49 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.062 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 518, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Assumptions
... to be rife with holes and assumptions. assumptions. A valid stand can be taken on this arg...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 16, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'state'.
Suggestion: state
... thoroughly analyzed. The arguments states that mining done by the Crust Copper Co...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 581, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...cal locations of the endangered species an mining corporation is required to form ...
^^
Line 7, column 413, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... buy their products without sacrificing some of the amenities we enjoy. It might also be po...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, therefore, well, as for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2624.0 2260.96107784 116% => OK
No of words: 509.0 441.139720559 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15520628684 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90538991559 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477406679764 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 826.2 705.55239521 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.1413234584 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.333333333 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2083333333 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.04166666667 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 6.88822355289 218% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.235256442542 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0640592612246 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0661559163406 0.0701772020484 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129342967125 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.052686241125 0.0628817314937 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 98.500998004 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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