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 arguement mainly emphasize on moderating the daily consumption of green tea by a person. Although there are some stimulating points made in the arguement, but these arguement falls short in some aspects.
Firstly, the arguement that green tea containing moderate amounts of caffeine cannot be argued, but it is not stated that who was the manufacturer of the batch of green tea taken into the arguement. There are many manufacturers of green tea with different manufacturing processes for it's production. These manufacturers can easily claim to have added some other ingredients with the green tea that mitigates the effect of caffeine present in the green tea.
Secondly, the arguement fails to mention the current physical and mental condition of the subjects taken into the study. There is a significant chance that many of the subjects observed in this study could have serious health condition and are currently under some medication, or that many of the subjects were taken so that the test results could be manipulated. And there are many other scenarios which could be thought upon that are just based on the above pretense.
And even if the tests subjects taken fairly into the account, the symptoms observed in the subjects affected were not mentioned. In the above arguement, the clear symptoms for excessive caffeine consumption were mentioned, but in the study, the arguement mentioned symptoms similar to the symptoms of the former. The arguement seems to be very vague in proving it's point.
As stated before, there are some valid arguements made in the arguement, but in order to strengthen it, a thorough study must be done on considerable amount of groups and different brands of green tea in order to provide fruitful results.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 287 350
No. of Characters: 1437 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.116 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.007 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.661 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 94 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.917 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.759 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.41 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.689 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.133 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1475.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 287.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1393728223 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74718292921 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 204.123752495 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.491289198606 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.916666667 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9166666667 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => 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: 0.140575871845 0.218282227539 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0637434187541 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0722292853969 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0814752327342 0.128457276422 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0786984097218 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 98.500998004 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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