Over the past decade, the price per pound of citrus fruit has increased
substantially. Eleven years ago, Megamart charged 5 cents apiece for lemons,
but today it commonly charges over 30 cents apiece. In only one of these last
eleven years was the weather unfavorable for growing citrus crops. Evidently,
then, citrus growers have been responsible for the excessive increase in the
price of citrus fruit, and strict pricing regulations are needed to prevent them from
continuing to inflate prices.”
The given statement might seem to make sense at first because the price of citrus fruit apparently increased six hundred percent over a period of 11 years. The citrus farmers have been blamed directly for the exponential rise in the price over this period and therefore it has been suggested that strict rules and policies should be set up to prevent the inflation of prices. Unfortunately, even though the suggestion of regulations seem logical but the line of reasoning here is weakened by several fallacies.
The first problem with the given argument is that no other factors have been mentioned during the period of more than a decade. The value of the currency might have changed or there might have been a huge inflation rate during the period. Furthermore, the prices of the raw materials has not been factored in. In addition to this, the operating costs such as transportation and storage of citrus fruits have not been evaluated.
The next major flaw with this line of reasoning is that only one year of severly bad weather has been suggested to have disrupted the growth of citrus fruits. since, it takes 5-8 years for citrus fruits to grow, even a single year might disrupt the cycle and hence might have affected the total output. In addition to this, the specific year during which the weather condition was poor has not been stated. it might be that the weather was extremely hazardous during the last year and this has resulted in a few hundred times increase in the price of citrus.
The last flaw in the report is that strict policying will restrict prices from increasing at such a high rate. The case is often concurrent since if the rules and regulations are too harsh, then citrus growers might given up growing this particular fruit. As a result, there will be lower quantity of citrus supplied in the market. hence, due to the lower supply at the same demand, the prices of citrus is likely to increase even more.
Therefore, with the different problematic issues identified in the given report, I am unconvinced that the strategy of controlling the price is going to have a positive impact on the ciprus market price. A further examination of the other factors, including data regarding the country's inflation rate, the weather conditions, market supply and demand and the overall effect of strict rules on the output need to be conducted before a decision can be made about this seemingly uncontrollable situation.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 417 350
No. of Characters: 1989 1500
No. of Different Words: 199 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.519 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.77 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.491 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.786 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.143 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.63 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 429, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... citrus fruits have not been evaluated. The next major flaw with this line of re...
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Line 5, column 160, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Since
... disrupted the growth of citrus fruits. since, it takes 5-8 years for citrus fruits t...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 408, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...condition was poor has not been stated. it might be that the weather was extremely...
^^
Line 5, column 560, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... times increase in the price of citrus. The last flaw in the report is that stri...
^^^^^^^
Line 8, column 217, Rule ID: PRP_PAST_PART[2]
Message: Did you mean 'have given' or 'give'?
Suggestion: have given; give
...re too harsh, then citrus growers might given up growing this particular fruit. As a ...
^^^^^
Line 8, column 333, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Hence
...ntity of citrus supplied in the market. hence, due to the lower supply at the same de...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, first, furthermore, hence, if, regarding, so, then, therefore, in addition, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2040.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 417.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89208633094 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54591792773 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513189448441 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 631.8 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => 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: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.1152812782 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5294117647 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64705882353 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.148794808629 0.218282227539 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0547135402239 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0428866423272 0.0701772020484 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0850210027103 0.128457276422 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612745728906 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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