Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, for the past several decades, food-processing companies have also been adding salicylates to foods as preservatives. This rise in the commercial use of salicylates has been found to correlate with a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by participants in our twenty-year study. Recently, food-processing companies have found that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods. With this new use for salicylates, we can expect a continued steady decline in the number of headaches suffered by the average citizen of Mentia.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The writer of the issue assumes that by the new usage of the salicylates as a flavor, there will be a continuous decline in the number of a headache in Mentia. This claim which cannot be accepted as it stands. It rests on the series of surmises all of which can be challenged in one way or another.
First of all, the author mentions to a study held for twenty years to provide a link between the salicylates and headache. There is no any compelling and concrete evidence to fortify the validity of this study. As asserted in the article the study is held in the twenty years; this is a long duration. Although this span covers more observation and examination, lots of factors such as the lifestyle, eating habit alter in this period too. As long as there is no clear clue that during the study, integral elements had been under the control, there is some shaky doubt on the accuracy of the survey. Besides, the method of the study does not list in the article. Sole reference from the study is that there are fewer reports of headaches in comparison to the past. If the individuals report their problems voluntarily, causes this study to be open to debates; because maybe people are not eager to report their health status or they are busy to deliver the accurate statistic to the researchers. As a result, the outcome of the study is not warranted result.
Second, even the study is valid, and nothing changes during this twenty-year, yet the article is unguaranteed. The author assumes that there is a correlation between the headaches decrement and extra consume of the salicylates in the food-processing. However, it is a vague link. Maybe people utilize other medicine which is beneficial for their headaches; consequently, the effect of the salicylates is abortive and useless. In addition, there is no evidence and statistic from the health stand of the people, before the use of the food preserved by the salicylates. Perhaps, before the consuming of this food, people do not have a that much severe health issue. Thereby the consuming of this food, even with the less efficiency in the headaches, solves the problem. Thus, this drug is not as effective as expected.
Finally, the author declares an unproven hypothesis about the additional use of the salicylates as the flavor, which will strikingly decrease the quantity of the headaches suffering an average of the dweller of the Mentia. Actually, there is no information about the harmful side-effects of the extra consume of the salicylates since further usage of any effective drug or substance can lead to the severe effects. The salicylate is not exceptional from this fact too. Maybe the extra use of this material as the flavor will exceed the standard dose of utilization. Hence, this new use paves the path to other knotty health issues.
All in all, the argument is flawed for the reasons mentioned above and is, therefore, unpersuasive.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n be challenged in one way or another. First of all, the author mentions to a s...
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Line 3, column 133, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
... the salicylates and headache. There is no any compelling and concrete evidence to...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'besides', 'consequently', 'finally', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'in addition', 'such as', 'as a result', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.255813953488 0.25644967241 100% => OK
Verbs: 0.112701252236 0.15541462614 73% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0733452593918 0.0836205057962 88% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0483005366726 0.0520304965353 93% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0125223613596 0.0272364105082 46% => OK
Prepositions: 0.137745974955 0.125424944231 110% => OK
Participles: 0.0214669051878 0.0416121511921 52% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.67144175482 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0196779964222 0.026700313972 74% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.178890876565 0.113004496875 158% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0107334525939 0.0255425247493 42% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0107334525939 0.0127820249294 84% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2920.0 2731.13054187 107% => OK
No of words: 501.0 446.07635468 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.82834331337 6.12365571057 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73107062784 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.339321357285 0.378187486979 90% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.253493013972 0.287650121315 88% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.179640718563 0.208842608468 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.109780439122 0.135150697306 81% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67144175482 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 207.018472906 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471057884232 0.469332199767 100% => OK
Word variations: 54.3874531287 52.1807786196 104% => OK
How many sentences: 26.0 20.039408867 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.2692307692 23.2022227129 83% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.2920198645 57.7814097925 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.307692308 141.986410481 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2692307692 23.2022227129 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.692307692308 0.724660767414 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 44.6185321664 51.9672348444 86% => OK
Elegance: 2.39175257732 1.8405768891 130% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329023704884 0.441005458295 75% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.121038459757 0.135418324435 89% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0697361161831 0.0829849096947 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.588957625458 0.58762219726 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.196162852074 0.147661913831 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142910078672 0.193483328276 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0744417187602 0.0970749176394 77% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.518896123691 0.42659136922 122% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.179741017367 0.0774707102158 232% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22592652995 0.312017818177 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0705674339728 0.0698173142475 101% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.33743842365 36% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.87684729064 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.82512315271 228% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 6.46551724138 31% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 10.0 2.82389162562 354% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 14.657635468 136% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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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