In the letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper, it is stated that government should regulate retail milk price in order to confirm fair prices for consumers as well as prevent farmers form making excessive profits. The author of this letter has come to this conclusion based on the contrasting issues faced by the consumers of Excello food market that is increasing price of retail milk price while supplies are adequate. However, before the proposal can be properly assessed, three questions must be answered.
First of all, is the maintenance cost of dairy firms remain unchanged during this ten-year period? It is possible that with time maintenance cost of regulating a dairy firm has increased due to some inevitable factors. Such as, it may be possible that, for some reason animal food was not available in Batavia so farmers were compelled to buy food at a higher price what was lower 10 years earlier. It is also possible that, other factors such as electricity price has been increased by the government significantly so nowadays it is difficult to run a dairy firm exactly same expenditure what was possible from even five years back. If either of these examples has merit, then conclusion drawn in the original letter is significantly misleading.
Secondly, are there no third parties between farmers and retail consumers who buy milk from Excello food market? In other words, is the farmer in the Excello food market who directly sell their milk to local consumers? The author of the argument superficially assumes that, Batavia farmers directly sell their milk to the consumers. But this might not be the case. Perhaps there are third parties who buy milk from dairy farmers and then sell to the consumers at the Excello food market. It is possible that farmers still sell their milk at the earlier price which was almost 50% less than the today’s price. So, it is the third parties who increase the price while the number of dairy firms increased quarter times from its one-decade earlier values. If he above is true the argument does not hold water.
Finally, is the population of Batavia remain constant in the entire 10 years period? Unfortunately, the author of the letter provides no information to resolve the issue. Because it is a crucial question in order to evaluate adequate supply of milk in Batavia. It is possible that population increased almost 50% while the amount of milk supplied from dairy firms is not compatible with the increasing demands. In that case strict regulations of the dairy market would be viewed as an inadequate decision because there is an inverse relation between supply and demand in economics which states when the supply is not enough then there is a good chance to increase its price.
In conclusion, the argument, at is stands now, is completely flawed due its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the three questions above and offer more evidence, then it will be possible to completely evaluate his recommendation whether government should control retail milk price or not.
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 516 350
No. of Characters: 2515 1500
No. of Different Words: 226 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.766 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.874 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.573 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 185 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 132 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.435 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.977 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.826 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.306 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 752, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...mes from its one-decade earlier values. If he above is true the argument does not ...
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Line 4, column 171, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” 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.
...es no information to resolve the issue. Because it is a crucial question in order to ev...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, well, while, in conclusion, such as, as well as, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.6327345309 183% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2570.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 516.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98062015504 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76609204519 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63298427902 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 204.123752495 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457364341085 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 806.4 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.9544179141 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.739130435 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4347826087 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.13043478261 5.70786347227 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.14443859854 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0485313406469 0.0743258471296 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0456471920558 0.0701772020484 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0819876143553 0.128457276422 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0478041842725 0.0628817314937 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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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