People should not be misled by the advertising competition between Coldex and Cold-Away, both popular over-the-counter cold medications that anyone can purchase without a doctor's prescription. Each brand is accusing the other of causing some well-known, unwanted side effect: Coldex is known to contribute to existing high blood pressure and Cold-Away is known to cause drowsiness. But the choice should be clear for most health-conscious people: Cold-Away has been on the market for much longer and is used by more hospitals than is Coldex. Clearly, Cold-Away is more effective
The conclusion might seem logical and convincing at first glance. However, a more critical analysis of the justification supplied by the author that choice should be clear for most health - conscious people, since cold - away has been on the market for longer period. Moreover, its been advised by more hospitals compare to coldex. The premises in their current form are not cogent - the reinforcements of the argument are fragile and they are rife with fallacies. To rigorously evaluate, the must give additional evidence. Therefore, ideas cited in premises leads to assumptions that are feeble and susceptible to attack.
To begin with, the authors conclusion that cold - away is more effective is not efficient, according to the author cold away is a well established company and has been in market for long time. So, new company to accuse a old company. It must have some substantial proof nonetheless, it would be fined harshly by authorities, if the claims are fallacies. Authors ruling out these claim with deep scrutinizing is not rational.
Secondly, there is no compulsion that if a tablet is been on market for many years is better in comparison. However, it is proved in all fields that advancements happen and new technology replaces the other. For instance, Aspirin was used for viral fever, for long time and people believed it was the best medicine with few side affects. While on the usage of the tablet for prolonged time revealed that it effects kidneys. Later, it was replaced by paracetamol. It has few side affects and can be used for longer period.
Thirdly, the premise that the tablet has been used by more hospitals has unwarranted assumptions. Since, the hospitals these days have become commercial especially private hospitals. They think it as service and not service for humanity. The same type of tablets are manufactured by different companies, so they prefer those tablets that provide huge profits to their hospital. Moreover, being an old company it would have more grip over the market if the profit percentage is same.
Lastly, it must be noted that and not taking an legal action against the coldex, it is accusing cold- away that it causes drowsiness. Moreover, severe action must be taken against both the companies since they have social responsibility and taking it to casually and blaming each other. Company must give a tablet with minimum side effects and all the possible side effects must be mentioned along with it.
To sum up, the authors argument is based on unconfirmed premises and unsubstantiated assumptions. It could have been more convincing and cogent. Hence, the argue provides scant evidence in support of the conclusion made by him, thereby rendering the argument indefensible.
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Comments
Essay evaluation 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: 27 15
No. of Words: 449 350
No. of Characters: 2223 1500
No. of Different Words: 224 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.603 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.951 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.657 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.63 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.181 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.24 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.478 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.04 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 20, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ptible to attack. To begin with, the authors conclusion that cold - away is more eff...
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Line 3, column 220, 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
...or long time. So, new company to accuse a old company. It must have some substant...
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Line 3, column 408, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...g out these claim with deep scrutinizing is not rational. Secondly, there is n...
^^
Line 5, column 325, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[13]
Message: Did you mean 'side effects' (=adverse effect, unintended consequence)?
Suggestion: side effects
...ieved it was the best medicine with few side affects. While on the usage of the tablet for p...
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Line 5, column 475, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[13]
Message: Did you mean 'side effects' (=adverse effect, unintended consequence)?
Suggestion: side effects
...was replaced by paracetamol. It has few side affects and can be used for longer period. T...
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Line 7, column 99, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... hospitals has unwarranted assumptions. Since, the hospitals these days have become c...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ket if the profit percentage is same. Lastly, it must be noted that and not ta...
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Line 9, column 46, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...y, it must be noted that and not taking an legal action against the coldex, it is ...
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Line 11, column 16, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ioned along with it. To sum up, the authors argument is based on unconfirmed premis...
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Line 11, column 153, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...been more convincing and cogent. Hence, the argue provides scant evidence in support of t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, lastly, moreover, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, well, while, for instance, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.6327345309 168% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2302.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 449.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12694877506 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60321845022 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78061061443 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516703786192 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 728.1 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.8556537113 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.2592592593 119.503703932 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6296296296 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85185185185 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.124268536381 0.218282227539 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0299412110064 0.0743258471296 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474080390695 0.0701772020484 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0632194500513 0.128457276422 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0504380626438 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 98.500998004 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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