The following appeared in a health magazine. "The citizens of Forsythe have adopted more healthful lifestyles. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago. Furthermore, there has been a fourfold increase in sales of food products containing kiran, a substance that a scientific study has shown reduces cholesterol. This trend is also evident in reduced sales of sulia, a food that few of the most healthy citizens regularly eat." 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
In an article in a health magazine, it has been stated that the citizens of Forsythe have adopted more healthful lifestyles due to the recent survey which showed that the people started to closely conform to the nutritional values ten years ago and also due to the increase in purchase of food products containing kiran and decline in food products containing sulia. However, three questions must be answered to evaluate the reasoning of this article.
Firstly, what percent of the citizens who participated in the survey are people who can afford the above mentioned lifestyle? The survey fails to shed light on the social and economical condition of the people who have participated in the survey. If, the majority of the people who participated in the survey are financially well off and can easily obtain food items containing kiran, then the argument is flawed, and to properly evaluate the reasoning of the article in the magazine, additional information is needed.
Secondly, What if the only people who participated in the survey were the ones who followed a healthful lifestyle? The article fails to present data regarding percentage of the people who followed a healthful lifestyle and the percentage of people who did not. If the survey was taken with skewed representation of people, then this would weaken the reasoning of the article.
Finally, it is not known about the sales of foods containing sulia in comparison to foods containg kiran and by what percentage the sales of food containing sulia have reduced. If the sales of food items with sulia were reduced by only a small fraction, and the reduced sales of food items with sulia are in same range of sales of food items containing kiran, it would weaken the reasoning of the article as the people practising healthful lifestyle are in same proportion as people not practising healthful lifestyle. So, details regarding the sales of the both kinds of food items would be useful to evaluate the reasoning of the article.
In conclusion, the reasoning of the article about the increase in healthful lifestyle of citizens of Forsythe is considerably flawed due to its dependence on unwarranted assumptions. If the article is able to provide evidence for the above questions, it would be useful to evaluate the reasoning of the article.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, well, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => 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: 1933.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 383.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04699738903 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79031781608 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.389033942559 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 627.3 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 87.9531881947 57.8364921388 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.692307692 119.503703932 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.4615384615 23.324526521 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.84615384615 5.70786347227 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157036618584 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0637851867893 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694352523225 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105851194771 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0669720153705 0.0628817314937 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.3799401198 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, well, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => 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: 1933.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 383.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04699738903 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79031781608 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.389033942559 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 627.3 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 87.9531881947 57.8364921388 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.692307692 119.503703932 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.4615384615 23.324526521 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.84615384615 5.70786347227 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157036618584 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0637851867893 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694352523225 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105851194771 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0669720153705 0.0628817314937 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.3799401198 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.