A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. After the recall, the pet food company tested samples from the recalled food and determined that all chemicals found in the food were chemicals that are approved for use in pet food. Thus, the recalled food was not responsible for these symptoms, and the company should not devote further resources to the investigation.
The author above mentions that a pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food as it received complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness, after recalling the company tested the recalled samples and found that all the chemicals that are approved were only use in the pet food, and therefore they assume that the food was not responsible and the company should not devote further resources to the investigation. I think the author has made baseless claims above for the following reasons.
Firstly, why is that so many people complain regarding vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness after their pet ate the food of this particular company? The number of recalled food is not a small amount. This indicates that there may be an serious issue in the food and it is universally creating a problem for pet owner and is not only limited to a certain type of pet or a certain condition.
Secondly, the chemicals found in the recalled food were found to be approved to use in pet food but it may be that these chemicals when combined react and are deleterious for the pet. The company should conduct a through research on the chemicals and how they react in different conditions and the side effects they produce. It may be that if the food is not stored in the idle condition it causes the chemicals in the food to react and make the food harmful for pets to consume and make them sick.
Thirdly, the author just assumes that the chemicals in the food result to the illness, it could be that the company uses unhygienic process while making the food and this results to the illness caused to the pets. Thus, not just the ingredients, but also the production and storage methods should be examined to determine whether the food is fit for consumption.
In conclusion, the argument is flawed and is based on unwarranted assumptions that the author makes. The author takes a very parochial approach while investigating the issue and as a result makes the argument baseless and unsubstantiated. If the author would have taking in consideration all the issues they could have strengthened their argument, but as it stands the argument has no merit to it.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
... baseless claims above for the following reasons. Firstly, why is that so many...
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Suggestion: through research
...for the pet. The company should conduct a through research on the chemicals and how they react in ...
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...stands the argument has no merit to it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, while, i think, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1858.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81347150259 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66143264253 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.448186528497 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 705.55239521 80% => 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: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 100.169737603 57.8364921388 173% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.923076923 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6923076923 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.5384615385 5.70786347227 202% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.543090821923 0.218282227539 249% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.18352711041 0.0743258471296 247% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.197148969247 0.0701772020484 281% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.315388814559 0.128457276422 246% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.219892333649 0.0628817314937 350% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.21 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 551, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... baseless claims above for the following reasons. Firstly, why is that so many...
^^
Line 3, column 244, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...mount. This indicates that there may be an serious issue in the food and it is uni...
^^
Line 5, column 212, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'through research'.
Suggestion: through research
...for the pet. The company should conduct a through research on the chemicals and how they react in ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 214, Rule ID: THROUGH_THOROUGH[1]
Message: Did you mean 'thorough' (accurate, exhaustive)?
Suggestion: thorough
...r the pet. The company should conduct a through research on the chemicals and how they ...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 399, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...stands the argument has no merit to it.
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, while, i think, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1858.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81347150259 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66143264253 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.448186528497 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 705.55239521 80% => 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: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 100.169737603 57.8364921388 173% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.923076923 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6923076923 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.5384615385 5.70786347227 202% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.543090821923 0.218282227539 249% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.18352711041 0.0743258471296 247% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.197148969247 0.0701772020484 281% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.315388814559 0.128457276422 246% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.219892333649 0.0628817314937 350% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.21 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.