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.
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.
While the support from government is highly significant, the recommendation of the author that the government is required to do everything to promote the new type of millet leaves us with various questions to be answered before a conclusion can be reached. While the author makes various arguments, such arguments are rife with holes and assumptions and more evidenc is required to place reliance on the recommendation made.
Firstly, the author argues that an International organisation has developed a new breed of millets that is rich in Vitamin A to slove the deficiency issues in the nation of Tagus. Here he makes the assumption that the millets that are newly developed are rich in Vitamin A. On further introgation,
Questions like "Are the milets sufficent to fulfil the needs of other nutrients and minerals?" or "Will the consumption of such millets rich in Vitamin A create a deficiency of other Vitamins?" Shall be answered to give a concrete support to the assumption. On aswering the questions, we can find out where consumption of such millets has any side effects on the diet of the people in the nation and is it feasible for them to consume it.
Second assumption that the author makes is in regards to the subsidies the farmers will be provided with. While it is valid to argue that the farmers are compensated with subsidies to bear the high cost of prodicing the new variety of millets, it is flawed on basis of the asummption made. The author cannot be sure of the amount of subsidies that are provded and in case they are provided question such as "The type of subsidies that are provided" or "the period when such subsidies are provided" are to be answered. If the farmers are not satisfied with the subsidies proved to them, they may not produce such crops. Therefore, understanding the type of subsidies and willingness of farmer to accept such subsidies is important before taking a step further.
Furthermore, he argues that since millets is the staple food of the people in Tagus, they will easily adopt to the new variety of food. Before coming to such conclusion the author must answer to questions, "whether a survey is conducted to prove the same?" or "Is there going to be no change in the taste of the millets that may lead the people to incline to the old variet of millets itself?". Only on confirming the positive outcome of such survey, we may conclude on the argument made reliably.
Hence, even thought the government is responsible for betterment of the deficieny of Vitamin A situation in the nation, it is adviced to obtain more reliable evidences and information before taking any step further. Questions like the effectivenss of the millets, the side effects, the details of subsidies to be provided and the willingness of farmers to take such subsidies are to be answered and a general survey is required to be conducted before the government focuses on implimentation of this new type of millets.
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Comments
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: 18 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 504 350
No. of Characters: 2390 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.738 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.742 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.747 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 132 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.44 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.476 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.143 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 168, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...umption of such millets rich in Vitamin A create a deficiency of other Vitamins?' S...
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Line 5, column 44, Rule ID: IN_REGARD_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'regarding' or 'with regard to'.
Suggestion: regarding; with regard to
...ond assumption that the author makes is in regards to the subsidies the farmers will be provi...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 103, Rule ID: ADOPT_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'adapt to'?
Suggestion: adapt to
...f the people in Tagus, they will easily adopt to the new variety of food. Before coming ...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, may, second, therefore, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.6327345309 188% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 89.0 55.5748502994 160% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2511.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 504.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98214285714 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00064490318 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.422619047619 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 803.7 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => 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: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.7697631408 57.8364921388 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.9375 119.503703932 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.5 23.324526521 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.875 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.293607070502 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107913630635 0.0743258471296 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0816589047307 0.0701772020484 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169701558617 0.128457276422 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0773987420633 0.0628817314937 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.3550499002 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.2 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 98.500998004 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 12.3882235529 157% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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