The following is a letter from the parent of a private school student to the principal of that school:
Last year, Kensington Academy turned over management of its cafeteria to a private vendor, Swift Nutrition. This company serves low-fat, low-calorie meals that students do not find enjoyable – my son and several of his friends came home yesterday complaining about the lunch options. While the intent of hiring Swift may have been to cause students to eat healthier foods, the plan is just going to cause students to bring their own, less healthy lunches instead of eating cafeteria food. If Swift is not replaced with another vendor, there will be serious health consequences for Kensington students.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
A parent of a private school student wrote a letter to the principal of that school citing that to replace Swift with another vendor otherwise there would be serious health consequences for Kensington students. It was further written in letter that last year, Kensington Academy turned over management of its cafeteria to a private vendor, Swift nutrition. This company serves low fat, low calorie meals that students do not find enjoyable based on his/her son and several of his friends complaints about lunch options. While the intent of hiring Swift may have been to cause students to eat healthier foods, the plan is just to cause students to bring their own, less healthy lunches instead of eating cafeteria food. The argument is unconvincing since some important questions left unanswered, the same seriously invalidates the credibility and merit of the argument.
To begin with first and foremost answer to the question required that author of above argument cites students of Kensington do not like the food given by the Swift Nutrition just based on the complaints of his/ her son and his/her son's friend. A detailed survey of students views on food quality and taste must be presented to bolster this claim made by author in above statement for example it might be possible that except his/her son and several of his friends, other students enjoyed the taste of the food given by the Swift Nutrition and if this is the case then claim done by the author regarding taste would become biased. Therefore, detailed data of views of all students must be provided regarding taste quality of the food given by the Swift Nutrition.
We need answer to the question regarding the prediction done by the author that there would be serious health consequences for Kensington students based on the assumption that students would bring their own food rather of eating the food provided to them. Data is needed to bolster this prediction done by the author regarding the number of students bringing their own food for example if very few students bring their own food rather of eating food provided by Swift Nutrition which is a low fat food cited by the author then there would be no serious health concern for Kensington students. Therefore, author should have provided more data regarding number of students bringing their own food.
We need answer to the question that suppose vendor with another vendor as author wishes to happen but what is the surety that his/her son and his several friends would not complain about the lunch option again ? Author should have provided the data or evidence regarding question posed in this paragraph for example, it might be possible that another vendor provide same quality of food as provided by Swift Nutrition then replacing of Swift Nutrition would be of no use. Thus answer to this question must be provided by the author to bolster the claim done by him/her.
Therefore, by failing to deliver the cogent answers to the questions mentioned above, the argument exposes its inherent fallacies. One need cogent answers to the questions posed above, since argument fails to deliver on this count, we reject it in totality.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...there would be no serious health concern for Kensington students. Therefore, aut...
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...o serious health concern for Kensington students. Therefore, author should have ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, regarding, so, then, therefore, thus, while, for example, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 28.8173652695 167% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 86.0 55.5748502994 155% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2643.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 529.0 441.139720559 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99621928166 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79583152331 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45026062795 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.385633270321 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 792.9 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.6527810664 57.8364921388 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.1875 119.503703932 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.0625 23.324526521 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226467535679 0.218282227539 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.092136317723 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107506466098 0.0701772020484 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138307441298 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.151448711246 0.0628817314937 241% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.44 48.3550499002 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 603, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... then claim done by the author regarding taste would become biased. Therefore, de...
^^
Line 3, column 681, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
..., detailed data of views of all students must be provided regarding taste quality...
^^
Line 5, column 568, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...there would be no serious health concern for Kensington students. Therefore, aut...
^^
Line 5, column 584, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o serious health concern for Kensington students. Therefore, author should have ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, regarding, so, then, therefore, thus, while, for example, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 28.8173652695 167% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 86.0 55.5748502994 155% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2643.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 529.0 441.139720559 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99621928166 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79583152331 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45026062795 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.385633270321 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 792.9 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.6527810664 57.8364921388 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.1875 119.503703932 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.0625 23.324526521 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226467535679 0.218282227539 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.092136317723 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107506466098 0.0701772020484 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138307441298 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.151448711246 0.0628817314937 241% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.44 48.3550499002 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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.