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 asserts that the people of Tagus will readily adopt the new variety of the millet breed. The contention is drawn based on the evidence that the main crop of the Tagus is millet and the goverment will provide susidies to the farmers. Superficially, the argument might seem plausible but in deep ponderance the argument is unbelievable as it lacks appropriate evidences. Before we can check the viability of the assertion, the following questions need to be answered.
Firstly, the argument mentioned that the people of the Tagus have "vitamin A" deficiency but didn't mention anything about the amount by which the new breed of millet is high in vitamin A; will it be sufficient to fulfill the need of vitamin A among the people? For instance, it might be case that the new breed rich vitamin A will be unable to fulfill the demand of it among people and the problem remains intact. If this might be the case then the argument as a whole is significantly undermined.
Moreover, what are the condition required for the proliferation of the new breed of the millet? In otherwords, are they same as previous? For instance, the new variety might need more irrigation and the country might lack such facility. Also, the soil fertility might not be sufficient for the proper development and production of the new variety. If any of thse hold true, then the argument as a whole doesn't hold water.
Furthermore, does millet being staple crop mean the farmers will readily use it? What about the other qualities of the new millet breed? For instance, the new breed might not be as tasty as the previous breed; so, the people won't like to grow the new crop. Similarly, what about the goverment subsidies and the high cost associated with the new breed? For instance, the argument doesn't mention anything about the no. and times the farmers will get the subsidies; which might be insufficient. Therefore, the argument needs to provide more information about the same.
In sum, the argument is based on numerous assumptions which are unwarranted and the evidence provided are insufficient. Therefore, the aforementioned questions need to be answered and the information in the form of systematic research needs to be provided prior to the analyzing of the argument and to determine the argument's claim to be practicable or not.
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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: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 398 350
No. of Characters: 1890 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.467 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.749 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.698 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 118 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.9 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.544 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.361 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.555 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ve 'vitamin A' deficiency but didnt mention anything about the amount by wh...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... amount by which the new breed of millet is high in vitamin A; will it be suffici...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... breed of the millet? In otherwords, are they same as previous? For instance, the...
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Line 5, column 405, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...hold true, then the argument as a whole doesnt hold water. Furthermore, does millet...
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Suggestion: doesn't
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...hing about the no. and times the farmers will get the subsidies; which might be i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, moreover, similarly, so, then, therefore, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 30.0 16.3942115768 183% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1955.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 394.0 441.139720559 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96192893401 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80344282252 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.43654822335 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 603.9 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.3129422109 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.0952380952 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7619047619 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
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: 0.349719548747 0.218282227539 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112473351395 0.0743258471296 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0968310878405 0.0701772020484 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205080613015 0.128457276422 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109451857756 0.0628817314937 174% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => 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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