The report issued by the study on the therapeutic effect of salicylates is silent about crucial details that should serve as basis for the acceptance of the prediction made about its therapeutic effect on headache and thus its tendency to reduce the headache experience by the people of Mentia. Therefore, three questions should be answered to help us decide whether the prediction is logically sound.
The first question that needs to be answered to help us accept the prediction is; Are all salicylates the same and do they perform the same function? According to the information contained in the study report, salicylates are used by food-processing companies as preservatives and are also planning to use them as flavor additives. It might be that salicylates fall in different groups and thus perform different functions. Some might function as preservatives alone, others as flavor additives alone and might not in any way have any health impact such as headache being considered. Thus, this question needs to be answered to help us know if all salicylates added to food substances will significantly contribute to the reduction of headaches in Mentia.
Another important question that needs to be answered to accurately evaluate this prediction is; Will the food items containing salicylates be widely available? If the food containing these potential therapeutic substance is expensive or does not circulate uniformly among the people of Mentia then this claim will be unwarranted. If the products are expensive, it means it will only be available to a certain group of people, that is, the rich who can afford it. Then, if found to reduce headaches, this group of people alone benefits from this. In this case, the argument will be found to be representative. For the prediction to be true of the whole population of Mentia, then we must know how available the food products will be.
Lastly, what dosage is required for a therapeutic effect? To evaluate this prediction, information about the dose required for effectiveness needs to be known. If this information is not provided then, it might turn out that the people of Mentia use below or above the required dosage and thus result in ineffectiveness or adverse effects respectively.
To sum up, the prediction about the therapeutic effect of salicylates is not completely convincing if the above mentioned questions are not answered. Ultimately, the argument would have been strengthened if information about the function of the different types of salicylates are mentioned, if the food items containing the salicylates will be available to all and the dosage required for a therapeutic effect.
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 429 350
No. of Characters: 2189 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.551 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.103 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.016 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 106 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.811 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.34 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.566 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.17 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, lastly, so, then, therefore, thus, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2244.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 429.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23076923077 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06864217321 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.44289044289 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 719.1 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.642165382 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.666666667 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.16666666667 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.174359173849 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0652787358771 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596607491817 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122937959382 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0584540083809 0.0628817314937 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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