The author suggests that drinking one or two cups of green tea a day can provide health benefits without producing any unwarranted side effects. The evidence presented is that it has been hailed as an excellent source powerful anti-aging and immune system boosting compounds and points to a long-term study that exposes the symptoms experienced when exceeding the recommended dose. This argument is flawed for many reasons; therefore, I will discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate this argument and explain how the evidence would strengthen or weaken the argument.
Firstly, the assumption that anyone who consumes two cups of green tea or less will not experience any of the negative side effects weakens the argument. This doesn't take into consideration those who are hypersensitive to caffeine. Many people will experience sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches from the author's recommeded dosage.
Secondly, the 'long term study' the author uses assumes that everyone that drinks more than three cups of green tea are likely to experience symptoms similar to chronic caffeine drinkers also weakens the argument. Some people can tolerate high doses of caffeine without any issues whatsoever. In fact, some people could have a high dose right before bed and still fall asleep. People can build up a tolerance to the drug over years of exposing themselves to frequent high doseages.
Thirdly, although green tea may be an excellent source of anti-oxidants, the argument does not provide any specific evidence as to how it has anti-aging and immune system boosting properties. While this claim could hold some merit, specific evidence is needed to support this position. If the author tied in some facts from a specific study about how these compounds produced these effects, it would strengthen the argument.
In summary, the argument contains many holes that could be strengthened by tying in spefic examples to support the claims. If the author included facts about the health benefits and nuance surrounding the effects of certain dosages, the argument could present itself much stronger.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 334 350
No. of Characters: 1745 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.275 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.225 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.636 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 139 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.267 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.724 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.349 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.6 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 160, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...side effects weakens the argument. This doesnt take into consideration those who are h...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, third, thirdly, while, as to, in fact, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
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: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1788.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 333.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36936936937 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72273192308 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543543543544 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 547.2 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 49.3608031629 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.2 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4 5.70786347227 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253190306514 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.080254226524 0.0743258471296 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0906720127608 0.0701772020484 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135261470929 0.128457276422 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0696529540927 0.0628817314937 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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