An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author of the argument states that people will readily adopt the new breed of millet which is high in vitamin A. The author claims that millet is a staple food in Tagus and farmers will be paid subsidies for farming this new variety of millet to support his conclusion.
To begin with, Tagus is an impoverished nation as given in the argment. So, is the price of new variety of millet(high in vitamin A) same or lower as older millet? This is the question that needs to be answered. If the price of the new breed is same or lower as the older breed then the predicted result is likely to happen. If the price of the millet high in vitamin A is higher than the older one, then the impoverished nation will tend to purchase the older breed of millet only.
Secondly, the higher cost of seeds of new type of millet was the only concern for the farmers is the question.If the answer is yes, then farmers will farm the new variety and people will adopt the new breed of millet readily.But are there are other concerns like more harvesting time needed for the new variety of millet, more loss occurs when growing new variety because they are easily attacked by the pests, etc., then the farmers will not readily grow the new breed of millet high in vitamin A.
Finally, is the amount of subsidy provided to farmers is sufficient enough to buy the seeds of new variety needs to be specified.If the amount is sufficient enough then the predicted results will be achieved. If the amount is not sufficient enough, then the farmer will not be willing to farm new variety of millet and people will not be able to adopt it.
Thus, the conclusion of the argument would be more likely if the above mentioned questions were answered in the argument. Without it,the argument appears flawed and implausible.Hence, I remain unconvinced.
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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: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 332 350
No. of Characters: 1461 1500
No. of Different Words: 132 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.269 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.401 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.245 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 62 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 31 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 17 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 22.248 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.9 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.427 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.427 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.172 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 145, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...f millethigh in vitamin A same or lower as older millet?This is the question that ...
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Line 4, column 161, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
...vitamin A same or lower as older millet?This is the question that needs to be answer...
^^^^
Line 6, column 110, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: If
...concern for the farmers is the question.If the answer is yes, then farmers will fa...
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Line 6, column 225, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: But
...l adopt the new breed of millet readily.But are there are other concerns like more ...
^^^
Line 7, column 130, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: If
...ds of new variety needs to be specified.If the amount is sufficient enough then th...
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Line 7, column 130, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ds of new variety needs to be specified.If the amount is sufficient enough then th...
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Line 8, column 132, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...ere answered in the argument. Without it,the argument appears flawed and implausible...
^^^^
Line 8, column 177, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Hence
...argument appears flawed and implausible.Hence, I remain unconvinced.
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, thus, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 28.8173652695 35% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => 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: 1506.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 327.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.60550458716 5.12650576532 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47832489534 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 204.123752495 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.415902140673 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 470.7 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 111.211584509 57.8364921388 192% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.909090909 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7272727273 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.54545454545 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.475598906571 0.218282227539 218% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.190882847976 0.0743258471296 257% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11622547522 0.0701772020484 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.252243300658 0.128457276422 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128049184509 0.0628817314937 204% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.96 48.3550499002 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.2 12.197005988 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.05 12.5979740519 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 98.500998004 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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