Green tea has long been hailed as an excellent source of antioxidants, powerful anti-aging and immune-system boosting compounds. Many people therefore believe that the more cups they consume each day, the greater the benefits. Green tea, however, contains moderate amounts of caffeine, a stimulant that is not without side effects, including sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches. A long-term study has found that those who drink more than three cups of green tea a day are likely to have symptoms similar to those that chronic coffee drinkers, another source of caffeine, suffer. Therefore, it is important that anyone who chooses to drink green tea limit their intake to no more than two cups a day.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument suggested that Green tea has long been hailed as an excellent source of antioxidants, powerful anti-aging and immune-system boosting compounds. This leads me to wonder if these benefits of Green tea are applicable to humans. How am I to know that the Green tea was made for human consumption and not for animals, birds or other organisms. Thus, there is the possibility that Green tea can be used by foraging animals, or even for domesticated animals or wild animals - to ensure longer life and enhance health - as the passage does not suggest that it was made for humans.
If on the other hand, it is suitable for human intake, why would people therefore believe that the more cups they consume each day, the greater the benefits? What warrants this belief? Mere hearsay? Ignorance? Or superstition? Recall that too much of everything is not good. Thus, an overdose of this Green tea might not be ideal. Those who take it, should not take an overdose, but as prescribed by a physician.
Furthermore, the argument posits that Green tea contains moderate amounts of caffeine, a stimulant that is not without side effects, including sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches. This leads me to also ask, Who made this finding? Was it made by the manufacturers or by scientists who tried to ascertain te cause of the symptoms? What amounts of caffeine does Green tea contain? Are these amounts healthy for humans? or for animals and other organisms? In addition to this, the passage informs us that a long-term study was conducted, this also leads me to ask, Who made this long-term study? Were the findings made by means of questionnaires? or by door-to-door analysis? By scientists or by persons who were concerned? What symptoms did the long-term study find, from the excessive intake of Green tea? Sleeplessness? irritability? headaches? Furthermore, these symptoms can be easily caused by fatigue or stress, and may not be due to the intake of Green tea, as there is no evidence from the passage that shows the study out rightly mentioning these symptoms as symptoms for excessive intake of Green tea.
Therefore, the conclusion is invalid, and is one that I would not agree with, as we are not informed by the passage that taking more than two cups of green tea a day, would result in symptoms such as sleeplessness, irritability and/ or headaches. In addition to this, it can be argued that the author’s conclusion is biased, as it could be that he or she has a rival company producing a similar product as Green tea and therefore, seeks to discourage those who take Green tea from doing so, in order to maintain a monopoly of the tea market.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 454 350
No. of Characters: 2137 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.616 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.707 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.716 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.16 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.753 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.44 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.267 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.413 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 424, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
...? Are these amounts healthy for humans? or for animals and other organisms? In add...
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Line 5, column 651, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
...ndings made by means of questionnaires? or by door-to-door analysis? By scientists...
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Line 5, column 827, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Irritability
...ive intake of Green tea? Sleeplessness? irritability? headaches? Furthermore, these symptoms...
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Line 5, column 841, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Headaches
...Green tea? Sleeplessness? irritability? headaches? Furthermore, these symptoms can be eas...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, so, therefore, thus, in addition, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 28.8173652695 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2215.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 454.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87885462555 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86463532438 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477973568282 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 681.3 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.67365269461 478% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 82.3391620069 57.8364921388 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.3043478261 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7391304348 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.04347826087 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.67664670659 299% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.330293877602 0.218282227539 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0838514805536 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109279308661 0.0701772020484 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210696352294 0.128457276422 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0582381890119 0.0628817314937 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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