Claim: the best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
Reason: only by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views of others does one really discover the value of that idea.
The author of the issue contends that the best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing idea. The author further reasons that the value of an idea would be elucidated only by defending against qualms and challenging views of others. In what follows I will first discuss my response to the claim and then explain what I think of the reason on which the claim is based.
I fundamentally disagree with the author’s claim because in analyzing an argument there is far more to consider than trying to persuade opposing viewpoints. One significant component is the cognition and knowledge of opponents about the discussing case because convincing one with superficial information about an idea seems to be easy and can not challenge the argument. In addition, whenever comes to an argument it is necessary to see if opposing ideas derive from reason or are delineated to destroy the tenets of the idea.
To reveal the real value of an idea one should be able to defend the idea in a reasonable path and be open to accept defects and flaws if there are. That is, biased defending against opposite ideas not only does not help that the value of an idea would be elucidated, but also directs to degeneration because opponents assume that the biased and unreasonable behavior comes from the weakness of an idea, however, accepting reasonable critics might improve the idea and push the owner of that thought to consider other aspects of the idea and fortify it.
In sum, I assert that there are myriad of factors that should be considered to discover the real value of a proposition and defending against opposing viewpoints itself does not work.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, then, i think, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 33.0505617978 51% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1391.0 2235.4752809 62% => OK
No of words: 287.0 442.535393258 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84668989547 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.55969084622 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67949914531 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 215.323595506 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.515679442509 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 704.065955056 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 20.2370786517 44% => 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: 31.0 23.0359550562 135% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.7721918382 60.3974514979 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.555555556 118.986275619 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.8888888889 23.4991977007 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.77777777778 5.21951772744 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.606403412105 0.243740707755 249% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.25838624335 0.0831039109588 311% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122328138181 0.0758088955206 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.348988683151 0.150359130593 232% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111814803087 0.0667264976115 168% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.1392134831 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.8420337079 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 100.480337079 63% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.2143820225 128% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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