A recent study reported that pet owners have longer, healthier lives on average than do people who own no pets. Specifically, dog owners tend to have a lower incidence of heart disease. In light of these findings, Sherwood Hospital should form a partnership with Sherwood Animal Shelter to institute an adopt-a-dog program. The program would encourage dog ownership for patients recovering from heart disease, which should reduce these patients' chance of experiencing continuing heart problems and also reduce their need for ongoing treatment. As a further benefit, the publicity about the program would encourage more people to adopt pets from the shelter. And that will reduce the incidence of heart disease in the general population.
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 for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author claims that Sherwood Hospital should establish an adopt-a-dog program together with Sherwood Animal Shelter. This argument is supported by the two reasons. First, it can benefits their patients because a report shows that people who own pets have healthier lives and longer life expectancy. Second, the program will encourage people to adopt pets from shelter. However, the claim is based on several unwarranted assumptions needed to be clarified.
To begin with, this argument assumes that the case in the study report obtain in all other cases. While we don’t know how the study is conducted, we cannot overgeneralize the situation to all people. For example, people who adopt pets may occupied in higher social level, that is, they have better medical resources or better life quality. Consequently, they are easier to achieve longer and healthier life. Only by knowing the detail of the study, we can make a proper judgement whether the result can be applied to other people.
Secondly, the author presumes that adopting pets will not pose a threat to the people who already have heart disease. Since the study may be done in the group of healthy people, we cannot preclude the deleterious effect to specific group of people. For example, the germ or the waste produced by pets may deteriorate the condition of patients. If it is true, the proposal not only may not reach its goal but actually get the counterproductive effect. In short, only by elucidate the effect of keeping pets, we can ensure the success of the proposal.
And, instituting the shelter may not increase the possibility that people adopt pets. There is no direct link between founding shelter and adopting pets. To be specific, people may lack of information about the shelter; or they may just be indifferent to the stray-pet; or they may devoid of leisure time to adopt a new pet. In this sense, the shelter probably will not increase the population that owns pets, and hence the incidence of heat disease of general population may not decrease.
In sum, the claim of the author is founded on unclear assumptions. It is essential to know the detail of the study, evaluate other effect of feeding pets, and the reaction of people for the shelter to attain the final decision.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 382 350
No. of Characters: 1830 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.421 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.791 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.531 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.19 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.359 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.521 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 182, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'benefit'
Suggestion: benefit
...orted by the two reasons. First, it can benefits their patients because a report shows t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in short, it is true, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1895.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 381.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97375328084 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61342472076 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517060367454 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 584.1 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.8856286302 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.2380952381 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1428571429 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57142857143 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193636734978 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0559469794476 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064336263191 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10590377144 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0664733899667 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.25 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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