TPO 53
Both the reading and lecture discuss taxes on cigarette and unhealthy food. The author states that in many countries smokers have to pay high taxes on cigarettes and similar taxes are being considered for unhealthy food and presents three benefits of the high taxes on these items. However, the lecturer finds the author's ideas flawed and provides some argument to the contrary.
To begin with, it is the author's assumption that high taxes on cigarettes discourage people from buying them and it can lead to a healthier society and same taxes on unhealthy foods and beverage can decrease obesity rate. On the contrary, the lecturer asserts that if taxes increase, people will buy less expensive cigarettes which contain the more harmful substance that is more harmful to them. She says that this issue is similar for unhealthy foods and people have to spend more money on them and less on healthy foods.
Second, the author states that these taxes are fair because people who use cigarettes and unhealthy foods they get sick and impose medical costs to the society and it is unfair to nonsmokers and the ones who consume healthy foods. Therefore, taxes can cover these costs and people with unhealthy behavior have to burden these costs. Yet again, the lecturer casts doubt on this point and explains that high taxes is not fair because people with high and low income have to pay the same taxes which is a great expense for people with low income. Besides, this issue is the same for unhealthy foods and people who make less money have to pay a lot of money that can put them under pressure.
The final point of contention is that high taxes are revenue for governments. The author claims that governments can use the revenue for useful projects like making public parks and stadiums so these taxes benefit everyone. On the other hand, the lecturer states that the revenue is a huge amount of money and governments consider it as a source of income. As a result, they refuse to put signs for smoking in open areas and outdoor because they do not want to lose their source of income.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 26, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...the contrary. To begin with, it is the authors assumption that high taxes on cigarette...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, however, if, second, so, therefore, as a result, on the contrary, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 7.30242825607 301% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1726.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 363.0 270.72406181 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75482093664 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.25452094916 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.443526170799 0.540411800872 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 543.6 419.366225166 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.8029908327 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.285714286 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9285714286 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.64285714286 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => 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: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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