An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The argument claims that the government is introducing a expensive but new breed of millet, replete with vitamin A to ameliorate the vitamin A deficiency among the people of Tagus. But, the argument is prone to fallacy for several reasons.
First of all, the government is trying to eradicate this lack of vitamin A among people just by introducing the new breed. But the incumbent government does not take the sufficiency of this new breed in account, whether the gross production of new breed of millet will be proved to be enough or falls short. In case, there is no indication of the acres of lands that will grow profuse amount of millet for all the nation, the argument fails in this regard. However, the argument will be strengthened if the government has a planned production of millet that will meet the demand of vitamin A, subsequently, the government can decide whether they should import more or not afterwards.
Secondly, the government will provide subsidies for farming the new variety of millet to encourage the peasants to produce more, there is no evidence that the farmers will consider this as a lucrative project, since Tagus is a poverty afflicted nation. Farmers will only produce millet if they can reap profits from millet production, otherwise it will be tough to persuade them. For instance, despite underwriting wheat production, if farmers of a particular region make loss while selling the wheat into market, they will obviously be discouraged to produce wheat furthermore. Therefore, the government also should make the market policy to ensure farmers' profit from millet production, thus gaining the farmers' co-operation in increasing millet production.
Thirdly and most importantly, the argument evinces vague description about the new breed of millet. This new breed of millet, will be feasible to produce abundantly, if and only if, the soil of that region contains the sufficient nourishment to produce this new breed. The argument fails to provide any information about the characteristic of this new breed. For example, a new breed of mango, if by its intrinsic properties, grow in more moisture-based soil, the farmers will face constraints while producing it in any arid region. Nonetheless, the argument would be strengthened if the government first check the feasibility of that new breed and ensures its production in Tagus.
In conclusion, the argument falls short for the above mentioned reasons. The conclusion of the argument relies on certain factors, for which, in this case, contains little evidence. Therefore, the argument remains weak and open to debate.
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Essay evaluation 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: 18 15
No. of Words: 422 350
No. of Characters: 2133 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.532 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.055 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.789 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 159 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.444 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.038 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.373 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.607 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.13 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 56, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 33.0 16.3942115768 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2207.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 422.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22985781991 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8792327333 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.457345971564 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 670.5 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 17.0 8.76447105788 194% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.985660308 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.611111111 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4444444444 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4444444444 5.70786347227 183% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.417972052127 0.218282227539 191% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145506490143 0.0743258471296 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0865292879386 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.24119112657 0.128457276422 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101289068895 0.0628817314937 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => 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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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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