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 challenge faced by the people of Tagus is one owning to a vitamin deficiency. Such lack of nutrient can have dire nutritional consequences for the populace. The organization responsible for tackling this problem has clearly mapped its strategies to combat this lack. Quite a number of red flags can be seen from the proposition.
Firstly, environmental variables have not been factored into this solution. The milieu under which the seeds are to be disbursed is lacking. Will the seed succeed in periods of rash environmental calls? The limitation will have very important consequences in achieving the goal of combating the deficiency. If disease and drought resistant breeds can be adopted in developing the seeds, it will go a long way in attaining the needed success baring any environmental limitation.
Secondly, government policies can be bureaucratic. The seeds might not eventually reach the people that are in dire need of it due to the nature of government in the country Tagus is domiciled. Such unwarranted limitation often hampers efficient and proper distribution of resources, in this case seeds. These inputs might eventually be suspended at the very highs of the government. Due diligence must meted out in order to see the movement of these seeds down to the very place where they are needed.
Thirdly, education of the farmers about the importance of the new seeds was not factored into the arguments. Most farmers often hold dearly to inputs that have been successful for a long time. Conspiracy theories about the new breeds might arise if they are not properly educated about the need to switch seedlings. Farmer education is very important for the success of this scheme and must not be shelved.
Conclusively, from the given argument, we were furnished with the different synergies adopted by the organization in order to ensure that the scourge of vitamin deficiency is abated. In like manner, our argument here clearly presents some flaws such as environmental issues, government policies and farmers education which have not been factored into the argument. Such practices if not addressed can undermine the success of this project.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 350 350
No. of Characters: 1781 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.325 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.089 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.811 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 124 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.32 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.272 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.504 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.038 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 10, column 441, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... undermine the success of this project.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1855.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 350.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90534904292 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.253421586 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.3333333333 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6666666667 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.33333333333 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216038485639 0.218282227539 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610483205455 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0361727371177 0.0701772020484 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113657250989 0.128457276422 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324491833785 0.0628817314937 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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