TPO-22 - Integrated Writing Task
Both the passage and the lecture deal with a conjecture as to laying a tax on cigarettes. The reading passage puts forward three rationales for this hypothesis. Contrastingly, the professor calls into question all the ideas and imparts some facts to repudiate them all.
First of all, the author takes the view that imposing more tax on cigarettes lead to a decline in smoking cigarettes due to the higher prices of them. According to the professor’s way of thinking about this reason, it would lead the smokers to consume a lower-quality cigarette that consists of higher levels of toxic materials. In fact, he believes that policy on increasing unhealthy foods proved to be unsuccessful because people did not stop eating unhealthy food and as a result, there was a lower amount of money to allocate to healthy foods.
Second, the reading passage posits that it is not a fair approach to get an equal amount of money from both people who smoke and don’t smoke. Furthermore, it states that the people who smoke cigarettes tend to get ill more frequently than ordinary people. However, this idea is challenged by the professor, he thinks that the people should not pay tax for the consequences of their action. Also, the people from lower strata of society will be faced with the burden if the higher tax for cigarettes is considered.
Third, the passage claims that the revenue that comes from increasing tax could be used for establishing public facilities. In contrast, the lecturer rejects this idea by touching on the fact that the government cannot rely on this profit because it is not rational to build a place from the money of the people and prohibit them from smoking cigarettes at the same time.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, third, as to, in contrast, in fact, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1437.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92123287671 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73380138509 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551369863014 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5201277821 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.75 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3333333333 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.131016058069 0.272083759551 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0523222814552 0.0996497079465 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.031671261028 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0814460362395 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0238505254932 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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