The following appeared in the summary of a study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia.
"Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, for the past several decades, food-processing companies have also been adding salicylates to foods as preservatives. This rise in the commercial use of salicylates has been found to correlate with a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by participants in our twenty-year study. Recently, food-processing companies have found that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods. With this new use for salicylates, we can expect a continued steady decline in the number of headaches suffered by the average citizen of Mentia.”
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.
A study on the headaches of Mentia hypothesizes that the rate of residents' suffering will decline in the future due to commercial use of Salicylatesin. The study's hopeful conclusion is based upon plausible ideas, but if uncorroborated, may lead to disappointing results. The study does not distinguish between correlation and causation, does not qualify generalizations about food companies, or delineate the study methodology.
The primary contention is whether an increase in use of Salicylatesin as food preservatives and flavoring is the cause of ...
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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: 12 15
No. of Words: 530 350
No. of Characters: 2804 1500
No. of Different Words: 238 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.798 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.291 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.161 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 202 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 172 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 128 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 109 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 44.167 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 24.973 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.405 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.673 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.113 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 686, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...known about future plans for flavoring. Finally, of paramount importance for any...
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Line 13, column 75, Rule ID: NON_ACTION_CONTINUOUS[3]
Message: The verb know is usually not used with a continuous form, use the simple form instead. Suggestion: 'knows'
Suggestion: knows
...for any predictions on health in Mentia is knowing that the Mentia community represents a ...
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Line 13, column 75, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...for any predictions on health in Mentia is knowing that the Mentia community represents a ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, if, may, so, then, while, for example, such as, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 55.5748502994 137% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2918.0 2260.96107784 129% => OK
No of words: 505.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.77821782178 5.12650576532 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.82981915422 2.78398813304 138% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 204.123752495 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49702970297 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 916.2 705.55239521 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 19.7664670659 40% => 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: 63.0 22.8473053892 276% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 468.926816652 57.8364921388 811% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 364.75 119.503703932 305% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 63.125 23.324526521 271% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 11.625 5.70786347227 204% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152819691277 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0743030178224 0.0743258471296 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0347201990137 0.0701772020484 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0942319424436 0.128457276422 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0261997024544 0.0628817314937 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 37.4 14.3799401198 260% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -9.39 48.3550499002 -19% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 17.1 7.1628742515 239% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 30.2 12.197005988 248% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 17.13 12.5979740519 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 11.58 8.32208582834 139% => OK
difficult_words: 154.0 98.500998004 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 63.0 12.3882235529 509% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 27.2 11.1389221557 244% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 63.0 11.9071856287 529% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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