“Studying foodways—what foods people eat and how they produce, acquire, prepare, and consume
them—is the best way to gain deep understanding of a culture.”
Write an essay in which you take a position on the statement above. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true.
Cultures are followed in different ways in different countries. As the author asserts studying foodways is one of the best way to gain understanding of a culture. I concede with the author’s opinion as understanding a culture involves knowledge of cultural customs, how they are carried through, progressed, etc.
Foodways here is an interesting topic, as how people actually started producing it, how they realized it’s necessity, to prepare and to consume it. We have now come far away from just eating raw vegetables to these fried potatoes called ‘fries’ or mcdonald’s cheese burger. There lies a beauty of how we learned of sowing seeds to growing vegetables or extracting carrot from underground. But then the question arises of non-vegetarians, how we relied on meat. How we processed all the food items. Researchers succeeded in counting the amount of calories, proteins in a food item. We all are now so aware of differentiating all the healthy and unhealthy food. A telling example of discovery of yoghurt, how we learned to acquire it from cow’s milk, how it’s stored, it’s period of storage, how we consume it. Now, we have these yoghurts coming in different brands.
Thus, there’s an interesting history studying foodways. Food industries have now come far away from the traditional customs. In the final analysis therefore, studying foodways would be the best for one to understand the culture.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 65, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
... different ways in different countries. As the author asserts studying foodways is...
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Line 2, column 103, Rule ID: IT_IS[10]
Message: Did you mean 'its' (possessive pronoun) instead of 'it's' (=it is)?
Suggestion: its
...started producing it, how they realized it’s necessity, to prepare and to consume it...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, so, then, therefore, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.5258426966 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 12.4196629213 8% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 0.0 11.3162921348 0% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 58.6224719101 53% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1201.0 2235.4752809 54% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 230.0 442.535393258 52% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22173913043 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.55969084622 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01748214373 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 215.323595506 65% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.604347826087 0.4932671777 123% => OK
syllable_count: 362.7 704.065955056 52% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0225156718 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.0666666667 118.986275619 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.3333333333 23.4991977007 65% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.93333333333 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.97078651685 60% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.230500752931 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0771006338739 0.0831039109588 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0638904188826 0.0758088955206 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160091112148 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0375251881832 0.0667264976115 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 48.8420337079 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.4 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 100.480337079 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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