The following appeared in a health magazine published in Corpora.
“Medical experts say that only one-quarter of Corpora’s citizens meet the current standards for adequate physical fitness, even though twenty years ago, one-half of all of Corpora’s citizens met the standards as then defined. But these experts are mistaken when they suggest that spending too much time using computers has caused a decline in fitness. Since overall fitness levels are highest in regions of Corpora where levels of computer ownership are also highest, it is clear that using computers has not made citizens less physically fit. Instead, as shown by this year’s unusually low expenditures on fitness-related products and services, the recent decline in the economy is most likely the cause, and fitness levels will improve when the economy does”
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.
Fitness of a person majorly depends on two factors viz. His physical activity and his diet. Compromise on any one of them would hinder the progress of person towards the physical fitness. Physical activity is more related to a person's physical strength and his diet is more responsible for his personal health. Considering these points, when we evaluate the given argument we understand that it is based on many assumptions.
The conclusion made that twenty years ago physical fitness ratio among the people in Corpora was better is completely bogus because the standards defined twenty years ago ...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 505 350
No. of Characters: 2445 1500
No. of Different Words: 227 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.74 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.842 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.445 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 188 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 139 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.048 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.312 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.54 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.07 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 226, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a person' or simply 'persons'?
Suggestion: a person; persons
...s. Physical activity is more related to a persons physical strength and his diet is more ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 202, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...years ago and the current standards are no where mentioned that they were similar....
^^
Line 2, column 420, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...s ago the diet of the people was better as compared to today considering the fact ...
^^
Line 3, column 271, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ena occur together at the same location doesnt mean both are related and the result ca...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 469, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... is good enough reason to undermine the authors argument. Computer has resulted in redu...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 323, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...red at home rather than pack diet food. Also the side effects of proteins products a...
^^^^
Line 5, column 297, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ect on fitness is absolutely incorrect. Also the author cannot claim that physical f...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, may, second, secondly, so, well, whereas, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2474.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 504.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90873015873 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48655682674 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452380952381 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 784.8 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3459565487 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.80952381 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.33333333333 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.127596473397 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.041410061081 0.0743258471296 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543983968699 0.0701772020484 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0715267544023 0.128457276422 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0685592913305 0.0628817314937 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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