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 author of the argument concludes, that the pet food was not responsible for the symptoms and the company that produced the it need not worry about it. He provides evidence to corroborate his claim including, the chemicals used in the food are approved for use. Though the argument may have merit, but because of lack of evidence, vague terminology and unaddressed assumptions the claim made is presumptuous and unsubstantiated.
To begin, there is no mention of ingredients, other than chemicals in the argument. It might be possible that some other non chemical product used in the pet food is not approved for usage. If this is true, this seriously weakens the argument because then the food produced by the company the the reason for animal's bad health and they need to make changes in their ingredient composition.
Moreover, the source which approved the chemicals is not stated. There is no way to check the qualification of the approving body. The author just assumes that the approving body is legit. If the chemicals are not approved by a trusted organisation, the pet food might contain elements that are not good for the pets. In this case too, the company needs to make certain changes. They need to follow the guidelines by a trusted organisation.
Further, there is also no mention of the time period for which the chemicals used are consumable. If the product is past its expiry date, it doesn't really matter that the chemicals used are approved or not.
In sum, if the assumptions of the argument that used ingredients other than chemicals are approved, the chemicals used are approved by a well trusted institution and ingredients are not outdated, turn out to be false then the argument would loose all its merit.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 296 350
No. of Characters: 1408 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.148 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.757 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.695 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 88 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.733 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.504 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.467 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.581 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.086 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 124, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'it'?
Suggestion: the; it
... symptoms and the company that produced the it need not worry about it. He provides ev...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...presumptuous and unsubstantiated. To begin, there is no mention of ingredi...
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Line 5, column 294, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...e then the food produced by the company the the reason for animals bad health and they ...
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Line 5, column 294, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...e then the food produced by the company the the reason for animals bad health and they ...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s in their ingredient composition. Moreover, the source which approved the ...
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Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...delines by a trusted organisation. Further, there is also no mention of the...
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Line 13, column 146, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...the product is past its expiry date, it doesnt really matter that the chemicals used a...
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Line 15, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e chemicals used are approved or not. In sum, if the assumptions of the ar...
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Line 17, column 246, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[4]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
...out to be false then the argument would loose all its merit.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, moreover, really, so, then, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 55.5748502994 49% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 295.0 441.139720559 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95254237288 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78074803053 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 204.123752495 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.471186440678 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.9196704917 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.46666666667 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151826714363 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0587646251688 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0816339787411 0.0701772020484 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0919407012758 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0754768474289 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 98.500998004 55% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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