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.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In this argument, the stated that the pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints from the customers and after testing they found that, the chemicals that were used in the food were approved for the use the use in pet food; so they stopped their investigation. But to reach the bottom of the problem, they should further research. Here are some reasons:
Firstly, there is no comment regarding environmental change issue. During season change, the chemicals might be bad the pet animals. So they should research further considering this factor.
Secondly, in this argument, the author only stated about chemicals that are used in the food. But what about other processing? Like food containers and transport system. The food company should look into this factors to eliminate all the doubt.
Thirdly, there is no comment about the expiration date of the food grains. The food chemicals might be in right condition, but what about the other elements in the food? Furthermore, they should consider all the external elements to which the foods are exposed. They need to make sure the pets that were exposed to these foods doesn't have other diseases.
The way the food company responses and took initiative to eradicate the problem, is a good one and everyone should thank the company for the responses. But to solve this critical issue, the company should be meticulous and should consider all options before closing this manner.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 245 350
No. of Characters: 1187 1500
No. of Different Words: 123 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.956 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.845 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.367 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 82 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 61 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 38 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 22 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.312 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.246 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.566 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.067 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 233, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'the use'.
Suggestion: the use
...were used in the food were approved for the use the use in pet food; so they stopped their inve...
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Line 3, column 179, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'companies'.
Suggestion: companies
...ntainers and transport system. The food company should look into this factors to elimin...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 204, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...stem. The food company should look into this factors to eliminate all the doubt. Th...
^^^^
Line 4, column 327, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e pets that were exposed to these foods doesnt have other diseases. The way the food ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, look, regarding, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1224.0 2260.96107784 54% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 244.0 441.139720559 55% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01639344262 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48432332891 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 204.123752495 62% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.516393442623 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 367.2 705.55239521 52% => syllable counts are too short.
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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 60.9281544116 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.6 119.503703932 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2666666667 23.324526521 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
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: 0.387542012419 0.218282227539 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119972099708 0.0743258471296 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119085434828 0.0701772020484 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215553170218 0.128457276422 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127730507287 0.0628817314937 203% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.3550499002 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.197005988 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 98.500998004 49% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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