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.
The ultimate goal of most argument is to try to persuade others that our opinion is more superior than others. With those that support the similar ideals or withhold neutral perspective, this mission could be easily achieved. On the contrary, it would be an arduous journey to manifest our viewpoints to opponents, who already ingrained a conflicting thought in mind. Therefore, I somehow agree with the statement that the one of the best ways to testify the quality of an argument is to measure its success in convincing their opponents.
When an argument is postulated, it could be broken down into three main constructs, which consist of the grounding premise, reasoning process and proposed evident. Among all of them, grounding premise is one of the hardest to rail against as it challenges the fundamental philosophy of the opponent. Whenever the premise is conspicuously established, or at least appears so, it acquires less effort to convince the opponent. In this case, as long as the conveyors master the context of discourse and clearly and cohesively convey the message with underpinning examples, the argument is expected to be a success. We could further elaborate this point with an example of health product market. When dealing with health-conscious yet skeptical customers, a sales person could easily convince them to try on the new products by comprehensively explaining the ingredients list, demonstrating potential benefit and showcasing testimonials from previous buyers, thereby leaving the consumers with no room for doubts and criticisms. Because they are fundamentally in trust with the overall ideology, their inner argument is more on the trustworthy and safety of the products. Thus, this debate is effortlessly triumphed as long as we provide enough conviction and reliable data.
On the other hand, when an argument involves either two disparate premises or absence of any premise, it would leave an open-end arena to the debaters. In this case, it is even more evident that, if an argument could become dominant, despite its validity, the world paradigm is likely to shift towards that direction. We used to, for once, believe that the world is flat due to the rigorous pressure imposed by Christianity against scientific proof. However, not until Columbus succeeded in traveling from west Spain to east India without falling off the edge of earth, the entire world was coerced to agree with his argument. From this example, it could be speculated that philosophically there exists no impeccable argument, whoever capable of finding loopholes to convince the majority would be the winner.
Besides penetrating the opponents, one of the primary characteristics of argument is to voice up our opinions, irrespective to whether people would accept it or not. Therefore, I conceded that not all argument is supposed to end with the victory of one or another, in which case, another mean of evaluation would be more appropriate. Before ending a research article, a section of research limitation, which is no different to an argument against your own work, is often included. In any field of study, scholars are often encouraged to question and doubt at previous literature as the intention is not to win over the topics but to discover research gaps for future investigation. This is what keeping the relentless supply of innovation and new discovery.
In summary, as I cogently elaborated above, though high pedestal should be awarded to arguments having the potency to convince their opponent, other measure should also be considered as scale of assessment.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The adjective more is normally used with to and does not need 'more' (so called implicit comparative). Probably you need to write: 'superior to'.
Suggestion: superior to
... to persuade others that our opinion is more superior than others. With those that support the sim...
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Line 2, column 1271, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...de enough conviction and reliable data. On the other hand, when an argument invo...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o be considered as scale of assessment.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, however, if, so, therefore, thus, at least, in summary, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 91.0 58.6224719101 155% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3019.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 576.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24131944444 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96276351823 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 324.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5625 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 950.4 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.10617977528 322% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 13.0 4.38483146067 296% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.9938652302 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.260869565 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0434782609 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78260869565 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
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: 0.242903694644 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.06680608608 0.0831039109588 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0509599060011 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133037918293 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468561765941 0.0667264976115 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.84 8.38706741573 117% => OK
difficult_words: 181.0 100.480337079 180% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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