Chemists have determined that spring water from Augusta, Maine contains minerals necessary for a healthy body. Residents of Augusta, Maine, have a longer life span than the average U.S. citizen. Even though spring water from Augusta, Maine may be expensive, it is a superior choice over drinking general tap water.
How would you rate the accuracy of the above statement? Support your position with reasons and examples.
In the argument, they are assuming that drinking spring water from Augusta, Maine which chemist claims to have necessary minerals which makes the body healthy. Hence to increase the lifespan of the average US citizen, the tap water should be replaced by the spring water. I raise the following point for counterpoint the above assumptions made.
Firstly, they haven't said that spring water is better than tap water. The chemist has commented on containing minerals but hasn't said about the dissolving of the minerals in the human body. Some minerals are hard and come out of the human body as waste without digesting the required minerals. It is possible that the spring water even though containing minerals cannot supply to the human body to make it healthy. Those hard mineral needs a catalyst which we have to consume to make those minerals to digest. Hence they should comment on the dissolvability in the human body.
Secondly, there isn't any notion claiming that the residents of Augusta, Maine is drinking spring water. They rather drink tap water as it is expensive and will increase their daily cost much more. Even if they did, they haven't said about the amount of consumption. Hence they should show the amount of consumption of spring water by <span style="font-size: 19.36px;">the residents</span>.
Thirdly, they haven't said that spring water is better than tap water. They have considered an exclusive relation between consuming spring water and a healthy body. Genetics, lifestyle, diet are highly linked to a healthier life. For example, in India, the people eat more at dinner as well as at lunch whereas in UK citizen prefer the main course at lunch.
Hence the argument is unconvincing as it stands. To strengthen it they must have provided strong evidence that no other factors are responsible for the healthier body and the spring water is better than tap water. Finally, to better evaluate the argument we would need more information about the relationship between drinking spring water and the lifespan of the people so that we can assess that spring water is a superior choice over tap water even if it is expensive.
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Essay evaluation 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: 20 15
No. of Words: 367 350
No. of Characters: 1743 1500
No. of Different Words: 172 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.377 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.749 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.415 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 118 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 80 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.35 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.933 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.348 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.545 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 161, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... minerals which makes the body healthy. Hence to increase the lifespan of the average...
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Line 3, column 15, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...bove assumptions made. Firstly, they havent said that spring water is better than t...
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Line 3, column 124, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...as commented on containing minerals but hasnt said about the dissolving of the minera...
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Line 3, column 512, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...nsume to make those minerals to digest. Hence they should comment on the dissolvabili...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...y in the human body. Secondly, there isnt any notion claiming that the residents ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
... cost much more. Even if they did, they havent said about the amount of consumption. H...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...t said about the amount of consumption. Hence they should show the amount of consumpt...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...>the residents. Thirdly, they havent said that spring water is better than t...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...zen prefer the main course at lunch. Hence the argument is unconvincing as it stan...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, well, whereas, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1814.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 356.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09550561798 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80403495769 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483146067416 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 549.9 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.4694523316 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.7 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.397119811323 0.218282227539 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121350513587 0.0743258471296 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0931750115964 0.0701772020484 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.236356559776 0.128457276422 184% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0699921107482 0.0628817314937 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.3799401198 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
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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