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.
I do not agree in toto with the author that the ability to convince someone with the opposing view is the acid test for an argument because arguments are only an tool to express once view point and all viewpoints are not always rational. I would like to use certain examples to substantiate my position.
People tend to develop the views based on various factors such as morals, values, beliefs and rationality. So before we jump on the arugment which is tool to support or express the viewpoint one must consider what the specific view is based. Views that are based on the morals values and beliefs tend to be highly subjective. When a person develops a view or prospective on to something that person believes in that idea whether others will be believe it or not as that person himself is convinced on to it.
Arguments are tools used to bolster one’s view point and yes their ability to convince or counter the contradicting views helps in strengthening ones fundamental views and creates clarity. Ones argument should be clear, crisp and rational enough to defend the counter argument or view points. Only when ones argument faces the contrasting views, its gaps or flaws get exposed. So the more one works on the gaps and clears their view point the stronger it is.
Arguments with respect views on the larger issues such as the constitution frame work, mission of company need to debated adequately so the all the contradicting views are answered and the idea is strong enough without any flaws. These ideas need to gain to the confidence and acceptance of all the stake holders for effective implementation.
All said and done when a person forms his ideas or views based on his intuition, emotions, feeling, religious beliefs, and experiences these ideas may not always be able to convince someone who has a contradicting views as these are highly subjective and personal. The views cannot be proved to right or wrong with no amount rationality or logical until the idea actualizes.
When people believe in the religious ideas no rational explanation can support the idea defend an counter argument. There are instances were miracles happen like where people who are clinicaly dead have come back to life and shared their experience of post death. When someone contradicts this idea of miracle, there is no valid logical or rational counter but yes to the person who has experienced this that is a fact and truth.
So in conclusion it is important take a holistic approach on to what the argument is about and whether it has a rational basics before one judge the argument by its ability to defend the contradicting views as not every idea can be rationally proved to be right.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, so, then, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2250.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 463.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8596112311 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65638904244 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470842332613 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 709.2 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.3993077425 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.0 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7222222222 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.55555555556 5.21951772744 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296085679674 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0996576972842 0.0831039109588 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0537506510995 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148785059578 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0343199724588 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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