Over the past decade, the price per pound of citrus fruit has increased
substantially. Eleven years ago, Megamart charged 5 cents apiece for lemons,
but today it commonly charges over 30 cents apiece. In only one of these last
eleven years was the weather unfavorable for growing citrus crops. Evidently,
then, citrus growers have been responsible for the excessive increase in the
price of citrus fruit, and strict pricing regulations are needed to prevent them from
continuing to inflate prices.”
In this argument the author propose that the government should legislate some strict regulations towards the citrus pricing. He gives credence to his conclusion by mentioning that over the past decade the price of citrus have been grows substantially while the weather condition was bad in just one of these years. So the citrus growers are responsible for this increase. This argument is problematic because of two critical reasons.
First and foremost, the author overlooks the other factors which would influence the citrus pricing. He suffocates just the weather condition that was desirable except in one year, while the other factors such as the demand in market or the export of citrus fruit to other countries could influence this growth in price directly. For example when the population growth rate is greater than the citrus growing rate the result would be the significant increase in the price of citrus. The other example would be the decrease in the farmers of citrus fruit; it might be possible that after the year with the unfavorable weather many of the farmers change the crops they used to grow.
However, the author uses some convincing evidences in order to support his suggestion; he uses some examples which could not be generalized for all kinds of citrus fruit. In the argument he indicates the rise in price of just lemon and he does not provide any further information about the growth in the other kinds of this fruit.
In conclusion, the line of reasoning in this argument is not strongly convincing. To strengthen the argument, the author should use some consider all dimensions of this event which have resulted into the significant increase in price. In addition, he should mention some examples of the prices of all kinds of citrus not just lemon.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, so, then, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1489.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 298.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9966442953 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56115024227 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489932885906 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 457.2 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.115938118 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.538461538 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9230769231 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.70786347227 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.143919316956 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0549411489113 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0477948235399 0.0701772020484 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0900283609655 0.128457276422 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0456254156394 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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