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.
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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 memo states that since the tests on the recalled foods have shown all its chemicals used to be approved in pet food, it must stop the investigation. The argument is majorly based on test results, and since the tests showed no signs of adulteration, the pet food is safe to be consumed. However, this conclusion is riled with assumptions that the company must take into account before stopping the investigation.
Firstly, the memo has generalized the complaint to all pet food. The food for pet fishes( consisting mainly of worms or its derivatives) can be reasonably harmful for dogs. Similarly, details need to be provided as to which specific breed of pets has the complaints orginated from. It could be that the a specific breed of pets are having these symptoms. Thus, more details on the the type of pet and pet food needs to be provided in order to draw correct conclusions.
Secondly, the company had to recall pet food over complaints of vomiting, lethargy etc. No statistics have been provided regarding these complaints. Have all the pets that consumed this food complained of these symptoms? Or was it just a few of them? It could be that there were only a few handful complaints, for which the company didn't have to recall 4 million pounds of food. These answers would help the company to decide its stratergies aptly.
Thirdly, the company states that all chemicals in the pet food were approved for. This may bring into question that whether these standards on pet food actually safe? The company could investigate further on the safe standards and whether trace quantity of any chemicals were the probable cause. Additionally, the company must ensure the ingredients are mentioned on its packet. Similar to humans, pets could have allergies and consuming them may have bad symptoms. In such a case, if the ingredients are clearly mentioned on the packet, pet owners may take the precaution to avoid feeding allergy prone foods to their pets.
In conclusion, the company must first clear these assumptions, so that a ap solution is omplemented.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 350 350
No. of Characters: 1672 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.325 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.777 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.607 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 105 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.775 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.328 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.541 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.105 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 298, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: the; a
...laints orginated from. It could be that the a specific breed of pets are having these...
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Line 3, column 376, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...g these symptoms. Thus, more details on the the type of pet and pet food needs to be pr...
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Line 3, column 376, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...g these symptoms. Thus, more details on the the type of pet and pet food needs to be pr...
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Line 5, column 333, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...ndful complaints, for which the company didnt have to recall 4 million pounds of food...
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Line 9, column 72, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... first clear these assumptions, so that a ap solution is omplemented.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, similarly, so, third, thirdly, thus, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
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: 1725.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 349.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94269340974 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71907542275 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501432664756 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 521.1 705.55239521 74% => 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: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.9225252611 57.8364921388 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 82.1428571429 119.503703932 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.619047619 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.19047619048 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.476678129961 0.218282227539 218% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159216481494 0.0743258471296 214% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124757942569 0.0701772020484 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261637772793 0.128457276422 204% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117505022599 0.0628817314937 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 14.3799401198 70% => 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: 11.08 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => 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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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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