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.
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 author's statements on the responsible factors that made the pets fall ill seems flawed. Many statements are stated but proper relation is not able to be drawn between them. There are several loop holes that has to addressed. As per the statements, proper reasons for both the pet food company and the consumers who used it has to be given to strengthen their arguments.
Firstly, the pet food company is testing four million recalled food samples that the consumers are complaining that the pets are falling ill seems to have a small loop hole. Here what is number of complaints lodged against is not evinced. Without this, recalling four million pounds on pet food seems futile. It is also not given that how many pets fell diseased when consumed such food. It may be likely that few products might have expired and hence it made the animals become sick. Since no scale is given of how many pets fell ill and how many consumers used this product, recalling four million becomes pointless.
Secondly, the company is stating that the testing has proved that the chemicals used in the food are approved chemicals and also concluding that this consumption has not caused the animals to fall ill. It may be likely the the food chemical combination, during its production might have varied and this variation has caused the pets fall ill. Proper way to test in this case may be to do tests on blood samples of the pets rather than recalling the pet foods. Hence, no proper conclusion can be drawn here without corroborations.
Thirdly, the consumers who lodged the complaints are stating that due to the consumption of such pet food the animals are falling ill and lethargic. On first hand they are not stating the diet routine of the pets. It may be likely that these pets are left free in the ground for sometime and at this time it might has consumed something which is noxious and this might have caused them fall ill. They are not stating that the animals solely depend on this pet food. Without the evidence of the pets diet routine, the complaint that the product had made the pets fall ill is not palatable.
Thus, in total the statements of proofs from both the company that manufactures the pet food and the pet food consumers seems facile. Still greater and deeper study has to be made to understand why the animals fell sick and their diet routine. Without sufficient proofs, the conclusion stated is not acceptable.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- out of topic
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Here goes a sample:
https://www.testbig.com/gmatgre-argument-task-essays/pet-food-company-r…
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 425 350
No. of Characters: 1967 1500
No. of Different Words: 173 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.628 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.313 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 124 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.368 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.759 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.536 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.069 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 220, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...e animals to fall ill. It may be likely the the food chemical combination, during its p...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 220, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...e animals to fall ill. It may be likely the the food chemical combination, during its p...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 135, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Still,
...nd the pet food consumers seems facile. Still greater and deeper study has to be made...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, thus, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => 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: 2015.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 425.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74117647059 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38753858281 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.414117647059 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 600.3 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.037468529 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.5909090909 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3181818182 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.59090909091 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.423267820318 0.218282227539 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147639322525 0.0743258471296 199% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144052231278 0.0701772020484 205% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.274188463282 0.128457276422 213% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0712606530074 0.0628817314937 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 48.3550499002 143% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 12.197005988 68% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.22 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => 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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