The following is a letter from the parent of a private school student to the principal of that school:
Last year, Kensington Academy turned over management of its cafeteria to a private vendor, Swift Nutrition. This company serves low-fat, low-calorie meals that students do not find enjoyable – my son and several of his friends came home yesterday complaining about the lunch options. While the intent of hiring Swift may have been to cause students to eat healthier foods, the plan is just going to cause students to bring their own, less healthy lunches instead of eating cafeteria food. If Swift is not replaced with another vendor, there will be serious health consequences for Kensington students.
The argument seems very convincing but there are few things that are left uncertain like the number of students who are eating their lunch from the cafeteria after the change of its management to a private vendor as compared to the number of students eating lunch from cafeteria before the change, calories and fat content in the foods served by the previous cafeteria as compared to that of the lunches the students bring from home and the number of complaints they received regarding this change of cafeteria.
The argument states that students are not finding the food served by the new vendor enjoyable, but it is uncertain if there is a decline in number of students visiting the cafeteria. If there is a decline in the number of students visiting the cafeteria then there is a likelihood that the reason stated in the argument that the students are not finding the food enjoyable can be true but if the number of students visiting the cafeteria is either same or has increased then the reason may not be true as then the majority of students are preferring the food or are unaffected by this change. Hence, this is a significant point tat is to be elucidated in order to reach a conclusion.
The parent who wrote the letter seems concerned about the calorie content of the foods that the students bring for lunch but it is not stated if the calories and fat content of the food that the earlier cafeteria served was greater than that of the lunches these children bring for lunches. If this is true, then the author's argument will be true else if the calorie content of the lunches these children bring is higher than that of the food that the previous cafeteria served then the argument that the children are resorting to much unhealthier food will be false and therefore the author's conclusion that there will be serious health consequences if the new vendor is not replaced will also be false. So, this is also vital to evaluate the argument.
The argument states the concern of just one parent who claims that there are children other than his or her own prodigy who have similar concerns but it is uncertain if there are more complaints received from the parents. If there are numerous complaints from the parents regarding the same issue, then it implies that the new cafeteria vendor is a cause for concern among many parents, in this case the school authorities must definitely take appropriate action but if the number of complaints the school received is very less regarding this issue then it implies that most of the children of the school are facing no issue with this change of cafeteria, in this case the author's conclusion that there will be serious consequences if the Swift vendor is not replaced with another one will be false.
Hence, the above points need to be elucidated in order to evaluate the argument.
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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: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 496 350
No. of Characters: 2319 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.719 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.675 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.438 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 89 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 41.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 29.962 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.917 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.401 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.401 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.169 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 535, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...e true as then the majority of students are preferring the food or are unaffected by this chan...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 317, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... for lunches. If this is true, then the authors argument will be true else if the calor...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 585, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...er food will be false and therefore the authors conclusion that there will be serious h...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 674, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...s change of cafeteria, in this case the authors conclusion that there will be serious c...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, regarding, so, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.6327345309 199% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2343.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 496.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72379032258 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71922212354 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46941406426 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.336693548387 0.468620217663 72% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 730.8 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 49.0 22.8473053892 214% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 178.595884611 57.8364921388 309% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 234.3 119.503703932 196% => OK
Words per sentence: 49.6 23.324526521 213% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 5.7 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200633542812 0.218282227539 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.081466707889 0.0743258471296 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0621892530688 0.0701772020484 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110141633176 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0668368915003 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 25.6 14.3799401198 178% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.3550499002 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 21.2 12.197005988 174% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.98 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 28.0 12.3882235529 226% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 21.6 11.1389221557 194% => OK
text_standard: 22.0 11.9071856287 185% => 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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