Organic food is very trendy these days. Everywhere you go, people are
jumping on the organic bandwagon. I used to be organic. I did. But I kicked
the habit. Believe me, I’d bought all the arguments, like the one that says
that organic food is priced the same as non organic. Right. Let me give you
an example of just how wrong that argument is. At my local grocery store,
a small box of organic strawberries costs four dollars. Four dollars for
maybe twelve strawberries! I can buy twice that many non organic
strawberries for half that price. The fact is organic fruits and vegetables are
a good forty to fifty percent more expensive than non organic. Imagine
trying to feed a family of four at those prices. You’d have to take out a bank
loan every time you went shopping.
Another thing about organic is that it’s not always easy to get. At my
local grocery store, I can buy organic fruit and vegetables no problem, but
not organic rice or grains like barley and wheat. If I want organic rice, I
have to drive ten miles across town through heavy traffic to a health food
store that doesn’t take credit cards. Then I have drive all the way back
home. All that for five pounds of rice. Believe me, it’s easier just to grab a
bag of good old non organic rice at my local grocery store.
And what about taste? Does my family even know the difference
between organic and non organic? No. A good example is organic milk. I
used to buy it all the time but I stopped because it was more expensive
than non organic. Did my husband and kids miss the organic milk? Did they
suddenly notice a taste change from organic to non organic milk? Not at all.
Food for thought next time you wander through the organic section of your
local grocery store.
The reading passage and lecture boths talks about the organic food. The reading passage states that organic food is highly expensive and therefore it would be very difficult to afford for those who are earning meager amount of money. On the contrary, the lecturer raises dispute against the former statement and posists that non organic food are heavily contaminated with pesticides. She further adds that the pesticides and other chemicals present in fruits such as strawberries leads to breast cancer in females and reduction in sperm count up to 50% in males.
The reading passage further states that organic food is hard to find as its is not easily available in local grocery stores. However, the lecturer counteracts this argument by claiming that organic foods are now easily available in local shops. Furthermore, big shopping markets like Walmart have a dedicated organic section which consists of organic rice, fruits, and vegetables.
Finally, the reading says that there is hardly any difference in the taste between organic and non organic food. The author in the passage states that it very hard to differentiate in between the taste of organic and non organic milk. Therefore we can continue to have non organic food instead of spending extra money on organic food. Conversely, lecturer emphasizes on elimination of chemicals and pesticdes to the maximum possible extent. For example, cows are given hormonal injections like RBGH which increases the milk production. These hormones remains inside the milk and produces various side effects such as breast cancer, prostate cancers on entering the human body. Therefore, lecturer asserts on having organic foods.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 235, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... taste of organic and non organic milk. Therefore we can continue to have non organic foo...
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Line 3, column 551, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'remain'.
Suggestion: remain
...ses the milk production. These hormones remains inside the milk and produces various si...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, furthermore, however, if, therefore, for example, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1412.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30827067669 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54960399369 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578947368421 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.4700597245 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.857142857 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.78571428571 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.352812445509 0.272083759551 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140432116312 0.0996497079465 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0929336808852 0.0662205650399 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255951730022 0.162205337803 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0383530076057 0.0443174109184 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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