The following appeared in a health newsletter.
"Nosinia is an herb that many users report to be as effective as prescription medications at fighting allergy symptoms. Researchers recently compared Nosinia to a placebo in 95 men and women with seasonal allergies to ragweed pollen. Participants in the study reported that neither Nosinia nor the placebo offered significant relief. However, for the most severe allergy symptoms, the researchers reported that Nosinia was more effective than the placebo in providing relief. Furthermore, at the end of the study, participants given Nosinia were more likely than participants given a placebo to report feeling healthier.We therefore recommend using Nosinia to help with your severe allergy symptoms.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author provides us with various pieces of information that, researchers compared nosinia and placebo and that for the most severe allergy symptoms , the researchers reported that nosinia was more effective than the placeboin providing relief.The author furthur goes on to tell us that the participants given nosinia wre more likely than participants given a placebo to report feeling healthier, and is hence recommended to help with severe allergy symptoms. The author supports his arguments with several assumptions that, if not substantiated, dramatically weaken the persuasiveness of the argument.
Firstly, it was mentioned that the comparison of nosinia and placebo was done only taking into cosideration"95" men and woman. And the participants seemed to have disagreed to the fact that nosinia and placebo were effective in the cure of allergies. one might also argue if this study was large enough or representative enough to draw such broad conclusions . In addition,if it is also the case that, the participants involved in study were inherently more immune to allergies and nosinia had little to no effect in aiding to the cure from the allergy, the author's contention that the nosinia was more effectivein providing relief than placebo does not hold water.
also, another major thing to be noted is that, it was mentioned that the 95 men and women participated in the study were only studied on the basis of their behaviour towards the seasonal allergies to ragweed pollen, and hence it is not proper to extrapolate the study and generalize it, and recommend using nosinia to all kinds of allergies and symptoms.
Secondly, the author only concludes that the researchers report that , for most of the severe allergy symptoms, nosinia was more effective than placebo in providing relief. However, one might question if the reports were indeed true, considering that there weren't any data points or numbers provided to us representing the same. also, the reports only claim that the herbs were effective in providing relief but not the complete solution to the allergy. if this is the case , thenthe auhtor's recommendation to use nosinia will have little to no effect in supporting the argument.
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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: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 358 350
No. of Characters: 1816 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.35 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.073 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.789 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 44.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 19.973 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 1 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.483 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.721 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.134 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...hat for the most severe allergy symptoms , the researchers reported that nosinia w...
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Line 1, column 247, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
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Suggestion: The
...ive than the placeboin providing relief.The author furthur goes on to tell us that ...
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Line 1, column 463, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...d to help with severe allergy symptoms. The author supports his arguments with seve...
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Line 3, column 262, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: One
...ere effective in the cure of allergies. one might also argue if this study was larg...
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Line 3, column 369, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ve enough to draw such broad conclusions . In addition,if it is also the case that...
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Line 3, column 383, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
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Suggestion: , if
...raw such broad conclusions . In addition,if it is also the case that, the participa...
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Line 3, column 569, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...iding to the cure from the allergy, the authors contention that the nosinia was more ef...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...ef than placebo does not hold water. also, another major thing to be noted is tha...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o all kinds of allergies and symptoms. Secondly, the author only concludes that...
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Line 7, column 69, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
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Suggestion: ,
...ncludes that the researchers report that , for most of the severe allergy symptoms...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: weren't
...ere indeed true, considering that there werent any data points or numbers provided to ...
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...s provided to us representing the same. also, the reports only claim that the herbs ...
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Suggestion: If
...t the complete solution to the allergy. if this is the case , thenthe auhtors rec...
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Suggestion:
...tion to the allergy. if this is the case , thenthe auhtors recommendation to use ...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ion to the allergy. if this is the case , thenthe auhtors recommendation to use n...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => 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: 1870.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 354.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28248587571 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04761276613 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480225988701 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 596.7 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 112.160893879 57.8364921388 194% => OK
Chars per sentence: 170.0 119.503703932 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.1818181818 23.324526521 138% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.81818181818 5.70786347227 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 15.0 5.25449101796 285% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251833014521 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100060505692 0.0743258471296 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0654967570888 0.0701772020484 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163683982797 0.128457276422 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0257787512177 0.0628817314937 41% => 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: 19.5 14.3799401198 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 48.3550499002 63% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 12.197005988 139% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.94 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 12.3882235529 157% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.9071856287 168% => 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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