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.
An International Organisation has developed a new variant of Millet, which is rich in Vitamin A in order to combat the deficiency of Vitamin A among the people of Tagus. It is stated that, even though the seeds will cost more, however, farmers will be paid subsidy while purchasing them. Moreover, it is stated that Millet being a staple food of the people of Tagus, the people will adopt the new variety very quickly and the concern of Vitamin A deficiency will be resolved soon.
Even though the above argument seems spot on, however it does have some serious lacunas which when considered make this argument hollow. It is said that Tagus, is an impoverished nation and farmers will be paid subsidies for the procurement of seeds, however, nothing is mentioned about the conditions about growing these new breed of millet seeds. It is very much possible that these new seeds will require much more nurturing and better environmental conditions for its cultivation, the cost of which may not be feasible for the poor farmers. Even more, even if the farmers are able to afford these increased expenditures, it cannot be said for sure that these millets would be affordable by the common people. Hence, the entire motive of combating Vitamin A deficiency becomes a failure.
Apart from that, it is nowhere mentioned that people of Targus is alright with consumption of genetically engineered crops. It may be possible that people of Targus, even though impoverished, tend to consume only organic grains in accordance with their traditions. Hence, it cannot be said for sure that people will readily adopt the new variant of Millet.
In addition, there is nothing said about the consumer safety of these modified grains, no scientific results or experiments confirming the safety of these modified crops are mentioned in the argument. Thereby, making this argument weak.
Moreover, It is said that Government of Targus should do everything to promote this new type of millet. This argument is simply too ambitious for the person making this statement. Because, it cannot be said for sure that the Government has enough funds for endorsing this type of mass program, as the statement already mentions that Targus is an impoverished nation.
Hence, even though the argument seems very convincing for combating the Vitamin A deficiency in Targus, however it has some serious faults which cannot be ignored. Thereby making this very sound argument invalid.
Discourse Markers used:
['hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'while', 'apart from', 'in addition']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.236725663717 0.25644967241 92% => OK
Verbs: 0.174778761062 0.15541462614 112% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0752212389381 0.0836205057962 90% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0774336283186 0.0520304965353 149% => OK
Pronouns: 0.033185840708 0.0272364105082 122% => OK
Prepositions: 0.139380530973 0.125424944231 111% => OK
Participles: 0.0619469026549 0.0416121511921 149% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.64706169073 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.00884955752212 0.026700313972 33% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.101769911504 0.113004496875 90% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.033185840708 0.0255425247493 130% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0110619469027 0.0127820249294 87% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2461.0 2731.13054187 90% => OK
No of words: 404.0 446.07635468 91% => OK
Chars per words: 6.09158415842 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.40099009901 0.378187486979 106% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.279702970297 0.287650121315 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.173267326733 0.208842608468 83% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.116336633663 0.135150697306 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64706169073 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 207.018472906 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462871287129 0.469332199767 99% => OK
Word variations: 49.6970301682 52.1807786196 95% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 22.4444444444 23.2022227129 97% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9159594587 57.7814097925 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.722222222 141.986410481 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4444444444 23.2022227129 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.724660767414 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 50.4147414741 51.9672348444 97% => OK
Elegance: 1.53488372093 1.8405768891 83% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.467041309285 0.441005458295 106% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.12333379138 0.135418324435 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.085441512737 0.0829849096947 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.603434648464 0.58762219726 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.186596914407 0.147661913831 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.183950400593 0.193483328276 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123527929455 0.0970749176394 127% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.301689638193 0.42659136922 71% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.136672316736 0.0774707102158 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.279521332972 0.312017818177 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12199661662 0.0698173142475 175% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.33743842365 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 6.46551724138 139% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 5.36822660099 56% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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