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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
A persuasive argument should be able to alter the stances of the opposition. Nevertheless, the process of convincing incorporates emotional factors that might be immutable by sound logic. In addition, for a argument to be sound, it should be persuasive to the general as well as the opposition.
Admittedly, a speech or writing that is capable of persuading people with the opposite stance is a cogent one: people are usually unwilling to brook to contrasting opinions. They usually try to find logical fallacies in other's ideas in a attempt to protect their views and arguments. For instance, in presidential elections every candidate provides a number of seemingly feasible pledges to the society. Before any debate between the candidates, most of the pledges seem plausible thus making all the candidates pertinent for the job, but after the debate and derogatory remarks towards other's commitments, the pitfalls are revealed. Therefore, an argument that can persuade the opposition can be considered as coherent without much doubt.
Nevertheless, it is difficult to argue against the fact that the process of persuasion entails emotional conflicts as well as logical ones. The opposition will likely be frustrated or even repulsed by the proposition's arguments no matter how competent it is since people do not like succumbing to others. Therefore, it would be hasty to evaluate a argument as incoherent because it wasn't able to persuade the contradicting views. For instance, in the 2012 Korean presidential election, candidate Lee, a left wing candidate denunciated candidate Park with personal matters that weren't relevant to the commitments or the competence of the candidate itself. Their debate ended up with nitpicking other's faults rather than persuading opponents. Hence, the process of persuading isn't all about making sound arguments: it may be a process of emotional conflict instead.
In addition, for a argument to be evaluated as cogent, it should be appealing to the crowd in general. For instance, president candidates who win the most votes are the ones that are able to move the people on the middle: people who are not sure they oppose or agree with the candidate. In a election, we do not expect the candidate to persuade the other candidates since they are all competing for a single job. What we want is the candidate to provide credible evidence to support their plans in leading the country: how they will enhance the economy, resolve political issues with neighboring countries, help the poor.
In conclusion, although persuading antagonists is a important part in appraising a argument, the ability to be attracting to the people in the gray area should be the yardstick in assessing a argument.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, well, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, in general, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2303.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 439.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24601366743 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99390296146 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510250569476 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 734.4 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3329513659 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.210526316 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1052631579 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.63157894737 5.21951772744 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less 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: 0.148226997566 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0492507100389 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.034693911269 0.0758088955206 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0883873449067 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0242106867703 0.0667264976115 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.