The letter to the editor of a Batavian newspaper concludes that the retail milk prices must be regulated to make sure the prices are low and there is ample supply of milk to the customers. The author reasons that the price of milk has doubled along with the increment in the dairy farms over the period of ten years, and the farmers are gaining excessive profits. The author’s assumption of preventing farmers from receiving excessive profit via regulation, however, is questionable to me.
Firstly, the increase of 25 percent in dairy farm throughout the country does not necessarily mean that there is increase Batavia too. Instead, the production could have been stagnant or even less in Batavia. Furthermore, is the data of present and 10 years ago comparable? In the span of a decade, various technological, socio economic and other changes might have been encountered which could make the comparison meaningless. The increase by 25 % in 10 Years period is rather less increment.
Secondly, the price data of Excello Food Market is taken to support the argument of price surge. Although the price seems to double ($1.50 to $3.00 per gallon) in this market, it is not certain that the price of milk in the entire nation has doubled. It is possible that the prices in other market might be constant or less than $1.50. Perhaps, the demand for milk might have increased in Batavia which caused the price of milk to rise compared to other markets. Population in Batavia could have increased and as a result, the demand could have increased accordingly.
In addition, the author assumes that the farmers are earning excess profit. If the inflation and time period is to be considered, the farmers are not gaining much profit at all. Had the demand had increased, they would have actually been facing problem to meet the increasing the demand. Moreover, if the regulation is to be implemented in retail price of milk and the price is to be lowered, the farmers will be the ones to suffer actually. Rather the farmers would be discouraged if they have to sell at the lower price with the constant production level as this will drastically lower their profit margin.
In a nutshell, the argument is considerably flawed to me due to unwarranted assumptions. If the author had analyzed the above discussed issues, the argument would have been more convincing. Hence, the decision of price regulation should not be solely based in this letter.
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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: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 413 350
No. of Characters: 1973 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.508 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.777 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.538 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 141 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.91 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.303 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.537 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 443, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Rather,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in addition, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1617.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 330.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67270365049 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.6424858944 57.8364921388 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 89.8333333333 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3333333333 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61111111111 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.124703189385 0.218282227539 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0467905110864 0.0743258471296 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0603702565748 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0812924440364 0.128457276422 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0785935570438 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.3799401198 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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