The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper.
"The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago. During this same time period, however, the price of milk at the local Excello Food Market has increased from $1.50 to over $3.00 per gallon. To prevent farmers from continuing to receive excessive profits on an apparently increased supply of milk, the Batavia government should begin to regulate retail milk prices. Such regulation is necessary to ensure fair prices for consumers."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author concludes that regulation of the retail milk prices would make a fair market for the customers. That is because the sellers won’t be able to sell overpriced milk anymore. In a provincial aspect, this may seem fair but to make a compelling case for the government, the author must provide shreds of evidence for three unwarranted assumptions.
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First of all, the author is showing appropriate concern about consumers but farmer’s side should also be taken on account. The farmers have to pay for the nurturing of the cows, the maintainance of the farm and so on. These costs are rising day by day with the money inflation. So regulating a fixed price is providing a limit to these costs too. As a result farmers may face possible losses which may lead to possible decrease in the dairy farms and that can hinder the growth of dairy industry in Batavia in future.
Secondly, a fixed market price means there will be no market competition among the dairy farms which can result in bad product quality. When there exists an open market, sellers have to vie among them to ensure they get the highest profit and for that they have to be concerned about product quality because no one will buy bad quality products with a high price. Possible increase in dairy farms in Batavia is a sign that demands of dairy milk has considerably increased. In that case, a fixed price may not encourage the farmers to maintain perfect quality every time which may lead to adulteration of milk. Anyway a less competitive market can become a cause of possible quality fall in dairy industries in Batavia.
Lastly, a fixed retail price may circumscribe new entrepreneurships as it doesn’t provide enough freedom to the seller. So new products may not come in the near future in the dairy industries of Batavia which can discourage new customers.
In a nutshell, the author’s suggestion to Batavia government can be fruitful if they can be always updated with the retail price considering increase in the monetary value, inspecting product quality in a regular basis
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 354 350
No. of Characters: 1672 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.338 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.723 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.617 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 116 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.125 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.015 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.379 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.077 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...gulation of the retail milk prices would make a fair market for the customers. Th...
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... future. Secondly, a fixed market price means there will be no market competitio...
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...competitive market can become a cause of possible quality fall in dairy industrie...
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...uture in the dairy industries of Batavia which can discourage new customers. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, but, first, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1719.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 352.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88352272727 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70651386098 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.505681818182 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.0693886061 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.4375 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.625 5.70786347227 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0866472133731 0.218282227539 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0344677145296 0.0743258471296 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0434138882523 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0487385596516 0.128457276422 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0243679850009 0.0628817314937 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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