An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
Given argument states that to combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can do to promote the new type of millet. Further is states that an international development organization, in response to vitamin A deficiency people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people adopt the new variety. The argument is unconvincing since some questions left unanswered . The seriously undermines the credibility of the argument and invalidates the merit of the argument.
The first and foremost question that needs to be answered is regarding the subsidies provided to the farmers for farming new type of millet. Argument states that seeds of new type millet cost more but subsidies would be provided without providing data to corroborate this claim. Further data is needed to proof that subsidies given will be equal or more to the cost of new type of seeds as argument already states that Tagus is impoverished nation so its farmers cannot risk huge lose for example, it might be possible that seeds of new type of millet would cost way more than the subsidies given to the farmers then it would ruin the livelihood of the farmers in Tagus. Therefore, data regarding the cost and subsidies should be provided in the argument.
Additionally we need cogent answers to the questions regarding the resources of the government to promote new type of millet. As we know from the argument that Tagus is a impoverished nation so it would be disastrous for the economy of country to promote new kind of farming which cost more. Data regarding resources of the government which include budget allocated for promotion, number of work force required for the promotion etc. For example, it might be possible budget allocated for promotion of new type of millet is not sufficient to promote on whole region or work force for the promotion of new type of farming is not up to the mark. Thus, data regarding the resources of the government should have been provided in the argument.
Further, answer needed to the question regarding the promptness of the people to adopt new variety of the millet. To corroborate this explanation regarding geographical condition, survey of people views on the new kind of millet for example, it might be possible that geographical conditions of Tagus are such that do not allow farming of new millet on whole region; it might be possible that people do not like this kind millet.
Therefore, by failing to answer some critical questions like the ones mentioned above the argument exposes its inherent fallacies. To fully appreciate the merit of argument one needs cogent answers to the questions posed above, since the argument fails to deliver on this count we reject it in totality.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 497 350
No. of Characters: 2412 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.722 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.853 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.663 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 175 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 130 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.235 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.396 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.706 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.413 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.618 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.205 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 150, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Further,
...n do to promote the new type of millet. Further is states that an international develop...
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Line 1, column 611, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ing since some questions left unanswered . The seriously undermines the credibilit...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...validates the merit of the argument. The first and foremost question that needs ...
^^^
Line 3, column 455, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...that Tagus is impoverished nation so its farmers cannot risk huge lose for exampl...
^^
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Additionally,
... should be provided in the argument. Additionally we need cogent answers to the questions...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 170, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...we know from the argument that Tagus is a impoverished nation so it would be disa...
^
Line 5, column 697, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...egarding the resources of the government should have been provided in the argumen...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, regarding, so, then, therefore, thus, while, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 84.0 55.5748502994 151% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2461.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 497.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95171026157 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72314700085 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.352112676056 0.468620217663 75% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 784.8 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.6497900422 57.8364921388 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.526315789 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1578947368 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05263157895 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
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: 0.475137299311 0.218282227539 218% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169723292275 0.0743258471296 228% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.15771099137 0.0701772020484 225% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.27668204945 0.128457276422 215% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.18491265735 0.0628817314937 294% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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