A recent survey of 250 adults between 30-45 showed an association between the number of hours adults spend online each day and self reporting of symptoms commonly associated with depression. The survey found that adults who spend 30 hours or more online e

The argument rests on the hypothesis that spending more time online is linked to depression. As a result, the author has concluded that to improve well-being a person should spend less time online.The author has only mentioned the term "online" and has not specifically mentioned a activity like online chatting, or doing some other work online. The argument is rife with fallacies and it is unsupported by adequate evidence.

First, There is nothing mentioned about the type of survey the author had conducted. Whether the survey was filled by the people or the data was collected by the Internet service providers?. It could be possible that people who filled the form for survey had filled incorrect details about the number of hours they spend online. Therefore, this questions the results of the survey.

Second, The author has presumed that spending more time online causes depression. She has failed to consider other factors which could have caused depression. People could have depression because of some family issues or financial problem. It is also possible that people who spend less time on internet also have depression.

Finally, The author uses the word "online" and fails to mention anything about the type of online activity which causes depression. What if the person who spend more than 30 hours a week online is a gamer like me and plays video games online. It could be possible that the person is learning a programming language or something else or the person could be having a chat with friends.

In a nutshell, it can said on the basis of the above-mentioned lack of evidence and answers need to be provided by the author. Therefore, the argument lacks cogency and it not tenable.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 198, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
... a person should spend less time online.The author has only mentioned the term &apo...
^^^
Line 1, column 291, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...pos; and has not specifically mentioned a activity like online chatting, or doing...
^
Line 9, column 23, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'say'
Suggestion: say
...with friends. In a nutshell, it can said on the basis of the above-mentioned lac...
^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'finally', 'first', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'well', 'as a result']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.275541795666 0.240241500013 115% => OK
Verbs: 0.1826625387 0.157235817809 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0588235294118 0.0880659088768 67% => OK
Adverbs: 0.030959752322 0.0497285424764 62% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0278637770898 0.0444667217837 63% => OK
Prepositions: 0.105263157895 0.12292977631 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0526315789474 0.0406280797675 130% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81406847256 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.015479876161 0.030933414821 50% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.114551083591 0.0997080785238 115% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0216718266254 0.0249443105267 87% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0185758513932 0.0148568991511 125% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1737.0 2732.02544248 64% => OK
No of words: 286.0 452.878318584 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.07342657343 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.58838876751 90% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.381118881119 0.366273622748 104% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.258741258741 0.280924506359 92% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.195804195804 0.200843997647 97% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.111888111888 0.132149295362 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81406847256 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 219.290929204 64% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493006993007 0.48968727796 101% => OK
Word variations: 48.0055074791 55.4138127331 87% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6194690265 78% => OK
Sentence length: 17.875 23.380412469 76% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.3835183069 59.4972553346 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.5625 141.124799967 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.875 23.380412469 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5625 0.674092028746 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 43.7491258741 51.4728631049 85% => OK
Elegance: 1.79487179487 1.64882698954 109% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.339147854715 0.391690518653 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.123473370947 0.123202303941 100% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0517146426009 0.077325440228 67% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.606213493802 0.547984918172 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.115772593705 0.149214159877 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143476947696 0.161403998019 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0668274136508 0.0892212321368 75% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.257592680532 0.385218514788 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0674558789586 0.0692045440612 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.21890087551 0.275328986314 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0605849260962 0.0653680567796 93% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.4325221239 38% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.30420353982 170% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 7.22455752212 55% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 3.66592920354 246% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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