Green tea has long been hailed as an excellent source of antioxidants, powerful anti-aging and immune-system boosting compounds. Many people therefore believe that the more cups they consume each day, the greater the benefits. Green tea, however, contains moderate amounts of caffeine, a stimulant that is not without side effects, including sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches. A long-term study has found that those who drink more than three cups of green tea a day are likely to have symptoms similar to those that chronic coffee drinkers, another source of caffeine, suffer. Therefore, it is important that anyone who chooses to drink green tea limit their intake to no more than two cups a day.
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.
The prompt supports the idea that one should not take more than two cup of green tea in a day in order to remain safe from certain illness such as - sleeplessness, headaches and irritability. The logical reasoning behind this understanding of the author is quite simple but dependent on several assumptions. Necessary implicit assumptions that underlie the argument are -
1. The long-term study mentioned in the prompt are conducted on the group of people who don't have any bad habits other than taking green tea three times a day.
2. People, taking green tea more than two times a day have the same metabolism of the other group of people who are doing the same.
3. The people author is indicating are not conscious enough regarding the side effects of green tea or the caffeine that comes with it.
4. Also, that people who are taking green tea are not taking precautious measures before intaking it.
For reaching to any certain decision these assumptions should be cleared out first based on their merits.
To begin with - it is believed by the author that the people with whom he has referenced the other group; dont have any other harmful habits that may cause them sleeplessness or irritability. There might be other reasons behind their anomalies, for instances- some of them were going through severe mental pressure, some of them was caught with other diseases etc - which may not be included in the upshot of the 'long-term' study. In that respect - the study might not provide the convenient result to be depended upon.
Another one is that, the people drinking gree tea more than twice a day, may have different metabolism from the study conducted people. They may suffer from different diseases for which their doctos might have prescribed them to drink in the mentioned way. May be the people will be fine even after taking the green tea more than twice a day because of their different metabolistic structure from that of the previously mentioned people. In that case - it might not be wiser one to ascertain the argument.
Also, it might be that case that people who are taking greean tea in good amount, are cautious enough to take it in that way. What if the people who are taking the green tea might just have filtered out the caffein in some way and take only the better part. In that case - the author assumed fact that caffein will cause them sleeplessness and irritability will be of no good.
So, looking from all the factors aforementioned and taking the ambiguity of the assumptions, it will take a lot more clearity and evidences to come into any conclusion.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 12 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 448 350
No. of Characters: 2083 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.601 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.65 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.485 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 83 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.478 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.119 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.565 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.292 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.548 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 69, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'cup' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'cups'.
Suggestion: cups
... that one should not take more than two cup of green tea in a day in order to remai...
^^^
Line 3, column 89, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...re conducted on the group of people who dont have any bad habits other than taking g...
^^^^
Line 10, column 107, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...whom he has referenced the other group; dont have any other harmful habits that may ...
^^^^
Line 12, column 262, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (May) must be used with a third-person verb: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...them to drink in the mentioned way. May be the people will be fine even after taki...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, regarding, so, for instance, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 13.6137724551 169% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 16.3942115768 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2155.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 447.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82102908277 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54418635346 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454138702461 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 657.9 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.7788877952 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.421052632 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5263157895 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42105263158 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 10.0 5.15768463074 194% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16523738189 0.218282227539 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0617339774717 0.0743258471296 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.059145280105 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0888384832578 0.128457276422 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0520731515812 0.0628817314937 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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