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 of the passage concludes that the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote the new type of millet but this conclusion is based on various assumptions and questions that need to be answered. Without further information the author does not make a cogent case to support the conclusion.
Firstly, the author mentions international development organization has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. There is no further information in the passage that this organization has developed the solution in consideration with the Tagus economic conditions. The solution might help the people to combat vitamin A deficiency, but can people in the impoverished nation buy the costly millet. This new expensive millet can also lead to the opposite of what it is intended for. People might stop buying millet due to higher prices and may change to a different food leading to increase in vitamin A deficiency.
Additionally, author mentions that farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. However, in an impoverished nation is it possible to provide enough subsidies for faming of new type of millet. Can the government afford to provide subsidies to every farmer. If the subsidies are not enough then the production will not be sufficient to fulfil the needs of people who consume millet as a staple food. No additional information is given about the amount of new type of millet that must be consumed to combat the vitamin A deficiency.
Furthermore, the author concludes that to combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet. For promoting the new type of millet, the government will need to distribute free samples and advertise the health benefits of this millet. Can government of a pecuniary nation afford to distribute free samples and extensively advertise the new type of millet. This promotion will strain the nation's economy.
In conclusion, the author must provide further information regarding the assumptions and arguments he made in the passage. The information given by author is not sufficient to prove that the conclusion derived by the author is valid. Only by answering the questions and providing statistical information can author make the conclusion valid
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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: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 375 350
No. of Characters: 1901 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.401 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.069 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.896 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 157 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.071 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.373 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.601 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.166 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 452, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
... millet. This promotion will strain the nations economy. In conclusion, the author m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, regarding, so, then, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1943.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 375.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18133333333 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96078067783 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.416 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 616.5 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.8351102224 57.8364921388 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.263157895 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7368421053 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.84210526316 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.430217494308 0.218282227539 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15101748053 0.0743258471296 203% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111162448592 0.0701772020484 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.235593519771 0.128457276422 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.149382703538 0.0628817314937 238% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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