Space exploration
In the opinion of the author of the argument provided, the author states that the country's recourses should be invested in unmanned space flight. Although this argument seems logical at first, it is based on a number of unstated assumptions and thus, the argument is flawed.
The first point on which the writers bases his/her argument is the fact that manned space flight is costly. While this fact might be true, there is no mention about how much unmanned space missions cst. Perhaps the difference is negligible and thus it might not make a huge monetary difference to send a couple of astronauts into space. Even if we assume that manned space missions are much costlier than their unmanned counterparts, a cost-benefit analysis is a must. If the presence of scientists on board of a space shuttle results in obtaining a much greater amount of information then perhaps it is more useful to invest in manned space missions and reduce the frequency of such missions in order to reduce costs.
The argument also mentions that space flights are dangerous but it does not elaborate upon this point. Any exploratory mission is bound to be a little risky, but the fact is that there is little to no evidence to point out the fact that space missions are riskier than say underwater exploratory missions. The author further goes on to claim that the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes lends support to his recommendation to replace manned missions with unmanned ones. But there is no montion of what 'success' actually means. Perhaps the recent missions were just to gather atmospheric information or their goal was to explore Mars. Such missions might favour unmanned probes over sending astronauts with them. Nevertheless, humans are required for a number of other space missions such as repair and maintainance of existing satellites, manning of the International Space Station (ISS), etc. Therefore without knowing much about the details and goals of the series of unmanned missions, it is not right to conclude that unmanned space flights are the way to go.
Another important issue that needs to be addressed is the question of whether there are other issues that need investment. Although space exploration is an important issue, it's need is superceded by issues such as poverty, water shortage, draughts and other natural disasters. Perhaps the country is going through a tough economic period or perhaps there is a large portion of the population which is affected by poverty. This would mean that money and manpower is better off being invested to address the immediate needs of the people. The author says that the country's resources should be invested in unmanned space flight without addressing whether space exploration is actually needed.
Therefore, although the author makes a suggestion that seems right, he/she is unable to prove that spending resources in unmanned exploration will outweigh the advantages gained by spending our resources to send humans into space instead.
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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: 20 15
No. of Words: 496 350
No. of Characters: 2472 1500
No. of Different Words: 236 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.719 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.984 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.611 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 188 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 141 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.966 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.65 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.321 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.525 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 55, Rule ID: WHETHER[3]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; the question whether
...ant issue that needs to be addressed is the question of whether there are other issues that need invest...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, thus, while, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.6327345309 183% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2521.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 494.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1032388664 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65086362759 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 204.123752495 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47975708502 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 768.6 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.6927524835 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.047619048 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5238095238 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.47619047619 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.337256420113 0.218282227539 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103924286437 0.0743258471296 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0909252998188 0.0701772020484 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188154705991 0.128457276422 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0626367746513 0.0628817314937 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 98.500998004 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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