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 government is recommended to do everything it can to promote the new breed of millet. This recommendation is based on the premise that the deficiency of vitamin A experienced by the people of Tagus is a direct result of feeding on the old breed of millet. In order to evaluate this recommendation correctly, three questions need to be answered.
First and foremost, is the old breed of millet a causal agent of the vitamin deficiency experienced by the people of Tagus? It is likely that there is an underlying cause for this vitamin deficiency. There may be prevalent cases of disproportionate and unbalanced diet in Tagus households with vitamin A being in relatively smaller quantities than is required by the human body system. Perhaps the people of Tagus engage in certain activities that accelerate the depletion of vitamin A in their body systems. If answers are provided to the above question, then a proper evaluation of the recommendation can be made. In the event that the scenarios described above are true, then the recommendation is significantly flawed.
On a second note, the farmers' mode of farming presents a serious question. Are the farmers predominantly subsistence farmers? Do they farm for solely commercial purposes or they mainly export their produce? It is possible that, although millet is a staple crop in Tagus, most of the millet produced are actually exported to other countries because only a minute part of the population eat millet which might just be a food for a specific population. Perhaps, millet is a food crop rich in nutrients that aid the growth of teeth in infants, and therefore only few adults eat it. If the above is true, in which case only a small part of the population eats millet, then the recommendation does not hold water.
Furthermore, is the new breed of millet free from adverse qualities? Although the new breed might be very much higher in vitamin A than the old breed, it is probable that it contains some constituents that might be inimical to the human system. It is possible that a compound which can cause allergic reactions were introduced to facilitate the engineering of the new breed of millet. There is a need for answers to be provided to the aforementioned question in order for a succinct evaluation to be carried out on the recommendation.
Conclusively, if answers are not provided to the questions above, then the recommendation cannot be properly evaluated.
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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: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 410 350
No. of Characters: 1990 1500
No. of Different Words: 186 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.5 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.854 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.008 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.57 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.519 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 23, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'farmers'' or 'farmer's'?
Suggestion: farmers'; farmer's
...cantly flawed. On a second note, the farmers mode of farming presents a serious ques...
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Line 5, column 417, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'food'.
Suggestion: food
...pulation eat millet which might just be a food for a specific population. Perhaps, mil...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 470, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'food'.
Suggestion: food
...specific population. Perhaps, millet is a food crop rich in nutrients that aid the gro...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, furthermore, if, may, second, so, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2041.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 410.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97804878049 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.076851261 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.463414634146 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 653.4 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.6024944493 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.05 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.3 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.330819394248 0.218282227539 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103861150429 0.0743258471296 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0719974702926 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181464492264 0.128457276422 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0896863016621 0.0628817314937 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => 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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