Author of this passage concludes that residents of Mentia will have less headaches due to increased use of salicylates in food production. As an argument author use the results of twenty-year study which investigated therapeutic effect of salicylates on headaches. While author assumptions may seem logical and correct, it would require more information in order to confirm its validity.
First, author in his argument rely on result of twenty-year study, that discovered a correlation between rise of commercial use of salycylates and decline of headaches reported by participants. Nevertheless, there is no information about validity of this study. Twenty-year research is a long project, so scientific errors could happen. It would be helpful to have some additional information about the survey and how it was conducted. Were the same participants studied 20 years long or study asked different residents of Mentia every year? How big was the survey group, were participants from different social, gender and age groups?
Another important thing that could weaken or stronger the authors argument is information about other factors that could cause headaches. Salicylates are not the only medicine that can reduce headaches. It is quite possible, that in twenty year some other factor influenced the results of the study. For example, maybe new medicine with headache-reducing ingredient become very popular in past 20 years and it high usage decreased amount of headaches.
At the end, author concludes that residents of Mentia will less suffer from headaches in a future as food-processing companies for sure will use salicylate as flavor additives in near future. However, it is unsupported assumption with no evidence from companies. Maybe salicylates is too expensive to use it as flavor additives or another better substitute already exist. Author doesn’t provide any strong arguments that usage of salycilates in food-processing will rise, thus assumption that Mentia citizents will consume more salysidates is not valid.
Although, author conclusion may be right, his argument lacks additional information about subject of the study, so more information is required in order to fully agree with the authors opinion.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 69, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun headaches is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...udes that residents of Mentia will have less headaches due to increased use of salic...
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Line 1, column 140, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... use of salicylates in food production. As an argument author use the results of t...
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Line 3, column 59, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...thing that could weaken or stronger the authors argument is information about other fac...
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Line 5, column 178, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...quired in order to fully agree with the authors opinion.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, thus, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1897.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 342.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54678362573 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0928112918 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543859649123 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 606.6 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.60969566 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.388888889 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.72222222222 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235354199733 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07942834768 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0859434340078 0.0701772020484 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127559157286 0.128457276422 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0765048640487 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 48.3550499002 73% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.91 12.5979740519 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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 -- 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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