Green tea has long been hailed as an excellent source of antioxidants, powerful anti-aging and immune-system boosting compounds. Many people therefore believe that the more cups they consume each day, the greater the benefits. Green tea, however, contains moderate amounts of caffeine, a stimulant that is not without side effects, including sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches. A long-term study has found that those who drink more than three cups of green tea a day are likely to have symptoms similar to those that chronic coffee drinkers, another source of caffeine, suffer. Therefore, it is important that anyone who chooses to drink green tea limit their intake to no more than two cups a day.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument here mentions that anyone who chooses to drink green tea should limit their intake to no more that two cups as drinking more than 2 cups of green tea a day can introduce symptoms similar to those that chronic coffee drinkers, that includes sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches. The argument presents its thought in a nice way but there are few short-comings which must be addresses. Not mentioning appropriate amount of caffeine in a cup and the credulity of the long-term survey on which this whole thought process is based must be addressed, otherwise this argument will remain fraught with assumptions.
The first assumption this argument takes is to denote the excessive drinking of green tea with the number of cups a person should have. This makes the argument ambiguous. It fails to mention the size of the cup. People in different countries drink tea from different cup sizes. People in Asia use a large cup to drink their green tea whereas the Europeans tend to use smaller cups. Two cups for a green tea in India might be three cups of green tea in England. If the argument would have mentioned the maximum amount of green tea a person should have in mililiters (ml), then it would give more clear idea on what is the cap to drink green tea without experiencing side-effects.
The second assumption this argument makes is that it says that a long-term study has found that those who drink excessive green tea (3 cups) are likely to have symptoms similar to those that chronic coffee drinkers. This argument does not mention anything absolute about the survey. It just says that people are more likely to have symptoms related to chronic coffee drinkes. Writing 'more likely' gives a sense of ambiguousness to the whole survey. More likely can be 60% chance also and it can be 90% chance also. The argument needs to clearly write about the result of the survey. Also, it does not mention on whom this survey was conduced. This argument fails to mention whether the people on whom the survey was conducted drink coffee regularly or not. If the survey is conducted on the people who drink coffee regularly, then it is possbile that they are inured to the side-effects of caffeine; this might not give accurate results of the survey. The argument also doesn't mention anything about the sample size of the long-term study. The results of the study might differ for different sample sizes, eg. 100 people and 1000 people. So the argument should do more to give some more information about the sample size if the survey, whether it include people from all age groups and should mention the exact result of the survey instead of just writing 'more likely'.
The argument mentions that those who drink more than three cups of green tea a day are likely to have symptoms similar to those that chronic coffee drinkers and it has included the effects as sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches but the argument fails to mention to what amount the effect is there. It is possble that people who drink coffee experience these side-efects in large quantities and people who drink more that three cups of green tea experience these effects in small quantities as the argument itself mentions that green tea contains moderate amount of caffeine. The argument should mention the extent of the side-effects to make it more valid.
Due to these all assumptions, the argument should do more to prove it clearly that people should not drink more than 3 cups of green tea or else they will suffer from caffeine related side-effects as it clearly does not answer all the questions leaving the whole argument ambiguous.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 332, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a nice way" with adverb for "nice"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...ches. The argument presents its thought in a nice way but there are few short-comings which m...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 478, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had mentioned'?
Suggestion: had mentioned
...f green tea in England. If the argument would have mentioned the maximum amount of green tea a perso...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 507, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...0% chance also and it can be 90% chance also. The argument needs to clearly write ab...
^^^^
Line 5, column 968, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...esults of the survey. The argument also doesnt mention anything about the sample size ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so, then, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 13.6137724551 191% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 28.8173652695 180% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 31.0 16.3942115768 189% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3010.0 2260.96107784 133% => OK
No of words: 621.0 441.139720559 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84702093398 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.991980728 4.56307096286 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50768847386 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.354267310789 0.468620217663 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 902.7 705.55239521 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.2418236998 57.8364921388 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.481481481 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.74074074074 5.70786347227 30% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207172626143 0.218282227539 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.070147179371 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0681293048993 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153250091856 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0522608942905 0.0628817314937 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.24 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 332, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a nice way" with adverb for "nice"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...ches. The argument presents its thought in a nice way but there are few short-comings which m...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 478, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had mentioned'?
Suggestion: had mentioned
...f green tea in England. If the argument would have mentioned the maximum amount of green tea a perso...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 507, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...0% chance also and it can be 90% chance also. The argument needs to clearly write ab...
^^^^
Line 5, column 968, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...esults of the survey. The argument also doesnt mention anything about the sample size ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so, then, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 13.6137724551 191% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 28.8173652695 180% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 31.0 16.3942115768 189% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3010.0 2260.96107784 133% => OK
No of words: 621.0 441.139720559 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84702093398 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.991980728 4.56307096286 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50768847386 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.354267310789 0.468620217663 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 902.7 705.55239521 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.2418236998 57.8364921388 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.481481481 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.74074074074 5.70786347227 30% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207172626143 0.218282227539 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.070147179371 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0681293048993 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153250091856 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0522608942905 0.0628817314937 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.24 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.