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.
The recalling of the foods by the food company was a good decision. According to the statement presented, the chemicals in the food was not responsible for the pet illness. While this is a good step by the pet food company, the company should not stop their research. However, from a business perspective, many might say that, no further investigation is required and they should launch the food again in the market, they should try to find the root cause of these illness otherwise the food will never be same and the people will lose their trust on this food company. In this paragraph, some of the assumptions in this argument will be discussed and some of the implications will be presented.
The food might not be contaminated by the chemicals but the chemicals can have different effects on different environment. The food company should look into this matter and they should check from which areas the complain arise most.
In this argument, it is stated that, the company only tested the chemicals that are associated with the food. What about the other elements of the food? Where the food was produced? Was the raw materials good? There is no mention about the expiration of the foods. Before launching the pet food again in the market, the company should look into that.
There is no mention in the paragraph about the pet's health before taking the food. There is no mention that all the pet who came in contact with the foods got ill. So, the pet which got these symptoms should be checked to ensure they do not have any additional sufferings.
There is no evidence that the symptoms and the illness occurred are from this particular food. There might be problem with the water and other elements that the pet was in touch of. So further investigation in this matter is needed.
This might seem exaggerated, but the company should make sure that there was no industrial espionage from rivaling food company. Sometimes to make a competitor out of business, business companies do that.
Finally, the company needs to make a checklist to make sure all the possible reasons why this situation arose and they should take preventive measures to restrict this type of incidents.
To earn the people's trust, the company should make sure the safety from every possible angle. Testing chemicals for the food is a good start, but they should not stop in the middle phrase. In this type of situation, the company always looses trust. So, to bring back people's trust they should continue the investigation.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 432 350
No. of Characters: 2026 1500
No. of Different Words: 173 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.559 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.69 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.421 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.28 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.05 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.44 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.592 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 8 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 307, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun might seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much might', 'a good deal of might'.
Suggestion: much might; a good deal of might
.... However, from a business perspective, many might say that, no further investigation is r...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 460, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this illness' or 'these illnesses'?
Suggestion: this illness; these illnesses
...ey should try to find the root cause of these illness otherwise the food will never be same a...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 590, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...n this food company. In this paragraph, some of the assumptions in this argument will be di...
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Line 1, column 653, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... in this argument will be discussed and some of the implications will be presented. The fo...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 132, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'companies'.
Suggestion: companies
...ects on different environment. The food company should look into this matter and they s...
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Line 2, column 208, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... and they should check from which areas the complain arise most. In this argument, it is st...
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Line 4, column 48, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'pets'' or 'pet's'?
Suggestion: pets'; pet's
...s no mention in the paragraph about the pets health before taking the food. There is...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, look, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2081.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 432.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81712962963 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55901411391 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50507779074 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.428240740741 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 627.3 705.55239521 89% => 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: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.1118753366 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.0384615385 119.503703932 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6153846154 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.61538461538 5.70786347227 28% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 8.0 5.15768463074 155% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.337140282811 0.218282227539 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121032911302 0.0743258471296 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0964177105111 0.0701772020484 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174582037054 0.128457276422 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0926472486407 0.0628817314937 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 14.3799401198 67% => 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: 10.38 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.17 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => 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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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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