“Over the past year, the Crust Copper Company (CCC) has purchased over 10,000 square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia. Mining copper on this land will inevitably result in pollution and, since West Fredonia is the home of several endangered animal species, in environmental disaster. But such disasters can be prevented if consumers simply refuse to purchase products that are made with CCC's copper unless the company abandons its mining plans."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author suggests refusing the purchase of the products of Crust Copper Company (CCC) until the company abandons its mining plans in the tropical nation of West Fredonia in order to prevent environmental disaster and the disappearance of endangered species residing there. At the first sight, the argument seems plausible; however, on closer inspection, it is found to be rife with several flaws and unwarranted assumptions and several alternative explanations could be made which could seriously undermine the validity of the conclusion. The author should provide additional significant evidences in order to provide sufficient ground for the argument to stand.
First of all, the author naively assumes that Crust Copper Company (CCC) has purchased 10,000 square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia. However, this assumption falls short given the lack of evidence. It is possible that the land do not contain any viable ore for the extraction of copper for the commercial purpose. It is also possible that the company has purchased such land considering the welfare of the endangered species in order to elevate its reputation. The author needs to provide reliable evidence regarding the purpose of CCC in the purchase of the land before coming to the conclusion.
Secondly, let the company has purchased the land for the extraction of the copper for financial purpose for granted. Still, it is the presumptuous of the author to assume that boycotting the products of CCC is an easy task and would impel CCC to abandon the plan. However, it might not be true. It is likely that CCC might be running different companies that manufacture cables, wires, pots and the like so throughout the entire nation about which people are unaware of, and CCC is providing only raw copper to these companies. If it is the case, then people will have no idea about the copper used in these materials as the companies producing these materials have entirely the different name.
Thirdly, let the people are aware of the products that uses the copper from CCC. Still it is not practical for the entire people to unify and abandon these products as it can be used in infinite numbers of products from very small electronic component to large cable wires. Further, since the company is large enough, it can have branches in several nations and it is possible that the company could export its products to different many countries and still will be able to thrive without abandoning its process of extraction of copper.
In sum, though the argument seems plausible, it lacks its persuasiveness due to its reliance upon several flaws unwarranted assumptions. The author should provide additional significant evidences in order to justify the validity of its assumptions. Unless the author provides such convincing evidences, the argument remains highly dubious and cannot be reasonably established.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 471 350
No. of Characters: 2381 1500
No. of Different Words: 211 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.659 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.055 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.677 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 183 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 139 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.789 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.611 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.335 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.335 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 82, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Still,
...products that uses the copper from CCC. Still it is not practical for the entire peop...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2429.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 471.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15711252654 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74202321561 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456475583864 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 760.5 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.5710901773 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.842105263 119.503703932 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7894736842 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26315789474 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272024584047 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0876390337531 0.0743258471296 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114921231235 0.0701772020484 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156065110799 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114334853063 0.0628817314937 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 12.3882235529 161% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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