TPO 53- Many countries require cigarette smokers to pay particularly high taxes on their purchases of cigarettes; similar taxes are being considered for unhealthy foods. The policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has a nu

In the given set of materials, the reading and lecture deal with high taxes on unhealthy foods to debate whether the policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has a number of social benefits.

The reading passage asserts the idea that the taxes discourage people from indulging in unhealthy behaviors. It can be expected that imposing similar taxes on unhealthy food and beverages would help reduce obesity rates. The professor casts doubt because imposing high taxes to people make people more unhealthy. People will buy low quality product because low quality products are cheaper than high quality products. If government keep continually price of unhealthy product, people keep buying low quality products.

The reading passage claims that taxes of kind are financially fair. Taxing people who engage in unhealthy behaviors creates extra income that can be used to cover the medical costs. In this way, some of the financial burden is shifted from all of society to just those who choose to participate in the unhealthy activities. The professor refutes the idea because there are level of incomes among the people. high taxes will not be burden to people who earn high incomes but people who earn low level income will be burden and it expand the difference between people.

The reading passage points out that the high rate of taxation on cigarettes significantly increase revenue for the government. Thus, the taxes on cigarettes, and the proposed taxes on unhealthy foods, benefit everyone. The professor challenges the idea because government not invest for people who enjoy the unhealthy food or beverage. these people permit the illegal activities to avoid losing their money.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 196, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...o cover the medical costs. In this way, some of the financial burden is shifted from all of...
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Line 5, column 409, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: High
... are level of incomes among the people. high taxes will not be burden to people who ...
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Line 5, column 530, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'expands'?
Suggestion: expands
... low level income will be burden and it expand the difference between people. The ...
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Line 7, column 337, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: These
...o enjoy the unhealthy food or beverage. these people permit the illegal activities to...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, thus

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1452.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26086956522 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50575896233 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514492753623 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 419.366225166 110% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.344879167 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.8 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.13333333333 7.06452816374 16% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.363742513878 0.272083759551 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13052645414 0.0996497079465 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103435434576 0.0662205650399 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.2621940659 0.162205337803 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0879021191599 0.0443174109184 198% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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