In the preceding argument, the author claims that the best over counter medication is Cold-away, the conclusion is based on the following premises. Firstly, people should not be misled by the advertising competition between Coldex and Cold-away medications both are for the cold symptoms and anyone can purchase it without doctor's prescription. Secondly, both brands have side effects such as hypertension from the Coldex drug in contrast Cold-away is known to cause drowsiness. The author has recommended the Cold-away because has been on the market for much longer time and is used by more hospital. Hence, in the first glance it may seem plausible. However, careful scrutiny sheds light on plethora of assumptions that could undermine the value of the argument.
To begin with, the largest leap in the argument is the assumption that advertisement will misled people to purchase the Cold drugs. In fact, as an over the counter medications they are more than safe with similar effects and minimal differences and no evidence is presented to establish that advertisement will misled people. One strike fact that these remedy have the same components so the action is the same. in order to strengthen this part of the argument, the author has to examine all the possible differences in both drugs to make a real competition.
The second piece of evidence also loses its significance by stating the medication side effects such as hypertension for Coldex and drowsiness for Cold-away, is not plausible to mention these signs without real evidences from where he concluded the results. Moreover, increasing the blood pressure might be minimal without any real bad effect, perhaps it is a good medication with people complain from hypotension so will be very helpful. In contrast taking Cold-away during the day perhaps will affect people productivity. In such case the assumption would be significantly weakened.
Last but not least, even there is a good indicator between the medication availability for longer time and using it in hospitals, this does not necessarily indicate a conspicuous relation between the two events. In other words the author fails to mention why doctors prefer using Cold-away medication? perhaps it is cheaper that Coldex so at the end its economical issue. Furthermore, Col-away has been for longer time in market, perhaps the factory's Cold-away has been before the Coldx so they used to use the old medication. So building decisions on weak assumptions is not reliable.
In conclusion, the argument fails to mention one key factors. Namely, the author recommendation of using Col-away as an effective cold drug was equivocal. so, without complete information, the argument is unsubstantiated and opened to debate.
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- OK
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samples:
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 438 350
No. of Characters: 2260 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.575 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.16 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.851 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 130 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.053 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.897 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.842 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.536 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.076 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 245, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...competition between Coldex and Cold-away medications both are for the cold sympto...
^^
Line 3, column 91, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'mislead'
Suggestion: mislead
... the assumption that advertisement will misled people to purchase the Cold drugs. In f...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 312, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'mislead'
Suggestion: mislead
...ed to establish that advertisement will misled people. One strike fact that these reme...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 413, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: In
...e components so the action is the same. in order to strengthen this part of the ar...
^^
Line 5, column 443, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: contrast,
...hypotension so will be very helpful. In contrast taking Cold-away during the day perhaps...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 303, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Perhaps
...tors prefer using Cold-away medication? perhaps it is cheaper that Coldex so at the end...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 156, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: So
...s an effective cold drug was equivocal. so, without complete information, the argu...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, as to, in conclusion, in contrast, in fact, such as, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2320.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 438.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29680365297 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94251407946 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51598173516 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 720.9 705.55239521 102% => 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: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 55.7916171611 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.454545455 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9090909091 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.40909090909 5.70786347227 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.351777444142 0.218282227539 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0981994177152 0.0743258471296 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127378257008 0.0701772020484 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189371294092 0.128457276422 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.130906959693 0.0628817314937 208% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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