An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
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Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered 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 avers that millet rich in vitamin A engineered by an international organization will be readily adopted by the people of Tagus. The Author substantiates the claim by saying that the farmers will be paid subsidy to lower the price of the new high costing millets and as millets are the staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt it. Also he states that government should also support this to curb the vitamin A deficency. However, the author supports the conclusion with 3 unstated assumptions that, if not substantiated, dramtatically weakens the persuasiveness of the argument.
Firstly, will these millets cost the same to the end user? The author states that farmers would get subsidy to grow these millets. But there is a chance that even after subsidy these millets are still more expensive to grow and sell in the local market. The end user might not buy these millets due to their high cost and farmers might also not grow these in their farms. There is a chance that these millets require higher soil quality and higher water need, therby increasing the cost to grow them as well, making it more expensive to the daily users. These millets might take longer time to grow making the return on investment lower for the farmers.
Second of all, are these millets similar in taste to the old staple millets that the people are alredy consuming? These millets might not be tasting good and it could be difficult for these millets to carve out a niche for themselves. Population of tagus might mix these millets with other food items and maybe the new millets might taste differnt than the old millets in with older combinations. There is a chance that people might hate them because of their taste and isolation. The quality of the millets might not be upto the mark that is acceptable to the population if Tagus. Other nutrients might be absent in them making them harmful for the people at large as it is their staple diet.
Thirdly, what if people are not able to differntiate them from the old millets? These millets might look similar to the old millets and the population is not able to differentiate them from the old millets. Maybe, people are not aware of the vitamin A deficeincy and they don't care about it. Moreover people are not able to differntiate them in looks. This would seriously harm the sale of the millets as the end user is not likely to buy these as they don't see any positive factor that these new millets might have over the old one.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now, is coniderably flawed due to it's reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the above three questions and is able to provide more evidence (perhaps in the form of a more systematic study), then only it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of success of the proposed new millets in the impoverished natition of Tagus.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 14 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 509 350
No. of Characters: 2342 1500
No. of Different Words: 214 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.75 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.601 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.443 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 146 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 105 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.13 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.442 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.565 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.352 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.564 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.178 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 349, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...in Tagus, people will readily adopt it. Also he states that government should also s...
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Line 5, column 139, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...redy consuming? These millets might not be tasting good and it could be difficult for thes...
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Line 7, column 273, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...re of the vitamin A deficeincy and they dont care about it. Moreover people are not ...
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Line 7, column 293, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...deficeincy and they dont care about it. Moreover people are not able to differntiate the...
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Line 7, column 454, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...user is not likely to buy these as they dont see any positive factor that these new ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, still, then, third, thirdly, well, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 28.8173652695 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2395.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 507.0 441.139720559 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72386587771 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74517233601 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49605659058 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418145956607 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 753.3 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.3832480995 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.130434783 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0434782609 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26086956522 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.330324667988 0.218282227539 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107666553867 0.0743258471296 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0841282967144 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19744186829 0.128457276422 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0805305565144 0.0628817314937 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => 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: 10.1 12.5979740519 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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