The best test of an argument is the argument's ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position
This is a certainly an old but interesting topic. Indisputably, a strong argument will have higher chances to convince the opposing viewpoint, and to please those who agree with it. Nevertheless, saying that the former is the best test of an argument is going too far; I strongly disagree with this statement. And now, I shall show why.
An argument does not wield itself, same way that guns do not kill people, but people kill people with guns. Furthermore, the ability of scalpels to perform surgery without a surgeon to brandish them is nowadays highly criticized by patients, surgeons and even some other pieces of surgery equipment. Right now, perhaps close to you if you are in a university office, there are law students. Be not afraid of them, at least not yet. But be sure they could be where you least expect them to be. These creatures spend their time trying to defend arguments that are not right; they do not usually believe those arguments themselves. They are being educated in a sophistic way, so they can convince the opposing point of view through a solid argumentation that is definitely never manipulated in order to achieve their goals. Politicians tend to do this as well, they call it campaign; they usually do it before elections take place.
In addition to the argument bearer, one should focus on the argument receiver. Following those examples that have already been written above, so I do not distract you, the almighty reader, with even more things to think about, a fully grown lawyer would certainly be better at convincing the opposing viewpoint holder than a child, a rock or a cat. A good lawyer (good in a sense of the antonym of bad, not the antonym of evil) can convince a popular jury about the innocence of a person even if they thought at first that person killed someone. Politicians can be convincing too, sometimes. Especially if they are good (good in a sense of the antonym of bad, not the antonym of evil). Hitler did convince a lot of people if you think about it.
Even the argument itself can make a difference. I will try to explain myself. You have read this. You might have laughed, you might agree with me. Hope so, that would grant me better grades. But if I had developed this argument in a torpid, lazy, unoriginal, boring fashion, that might not be the case. Even I, the same person, and you, the same reader (not implying you are not a person, though I know there is also an e-reader involved. Please e-reader rest assured I am not trying to offend you in any way), would have acted differently towards the same argument.
We have reached our conclusion, the end of our written common journey. I hope that this argumentation has convinced you, even if you have an opposing point of view on the matter. Some people think that, apparently, that’s the best way to test an argument.
Thank you for your time.
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Suggestion: good
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'apparently', 'but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'if', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'well', 'at least', 'even so', 'in addition']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.179310344828 0.240241500013 75% => OK
Verbs: 0.174137931034 0.157235817809 111% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0586206896552 0.0880659088768 67% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0844827586207 0.0497285424764 170% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0862068965517 0.0444667217837 194% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.103448275862 0.12292977631 84% => OK
Participles: 0.0465517241379 0.0406280797675 115% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.55043335046 2.79330140395 91% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0241379310345 0.030933414821 78% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.105172413793 0.0997080785238 105% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0258620689655 0.0249443105267 104% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0120689655172 0.0148568991511 81% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2871.0 2732.02544248 105% => OK
No of words: 506.0 452.878318584 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.67391304348 6.0361032391 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7428307748 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.310276679842 0.366273622748 85% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.227272727273 0.280924506359 81% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.154150197628 0.200843997647 77% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0889328063241 0.132149295362 67% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55043335046 2.79330140395 91% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 219.290929204 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505928853755 0.48968727796 103% => OK
Word variations: 59.9600101672 55.4138127331 108% => OK
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6194690265 145% => OK
Sentence length: 16.8666666667 23.380412469 72% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.795398535 59.4972553346 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7 141.124799967 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8666666667 23.380412469 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.4 0.674092028746 59% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 39.5939393939 51.4728631049 77% => OK
Elegance: 0.955 1.64882698954 58% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.486458967797 0.391690518653 124% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0724844827041 0.123202303941 59% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0862511909032 0.077325440228 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.434668670296 0.547984918172 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.185411389752 0.149214159877 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142119120164 0.161403998019 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0955210476003 0.0892212321368 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.242559743007 0.385218514788 63% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.102820870996 0.0692045440612 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.299883362151 0.275328986314 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.088336145299 0.0653680567796 135% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.4325221239 163% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88274336283 123% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.66592920354 191% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 13.5995575221 154% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.