The following appeared in a health newsletter.
"Nosinia is an herb that many users report to be as effective as prescription medications at fighting allergy symptoms. Researchers recently compared Nosinia to a placebo in 95 men and women with seasonal allergies to ragweed pollen. Participants in the study reported that neither Nosinia nor the placebo offered significant relief. However, for the most severe allergy symptoms, the researchers reported that Nosinia was more effective than the placebo in providing relief. Furthermore, at the end of the study, participants given Nosinia were more likely than participants given a placebo to report feeling healthier.We therefore recommend using Nosinia to help with your severe allergy symptoms.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In this passage, the author recommends Nosinia as effective cure for severe allergy symptoms based on feedbacks from researchers and trial participants. To support his/her claim, the author compared Nosinia's outgrowth with seasonal allergies and cites the responses from both researchers and participants . Quite convincing though such recommendation appears at first glance, there exists several questions regarding his/her lines of reasoning that requires further analysis. Thus, the author's recommendation could become pretty compelling or invalid in the end, depending on the answers to the questions.
To start off, the author's reasoning heavily relies on whether seasonal allergies are merely minor symptoms, a question that is not yet answered. It is likely that such guesswork doesn't hold true because some seasonal allergies could lead to terrific outgrowth even endanger people's life. Without additional information to thoroughful evaluation about different categories of such disease and specific situations of respondents in research, it is possible that several patients in those research suffer severe seasonal disease. Such phenomenon could seriously challenge seasonal allergies is just a minor issue for all patients and render his/her claim much less advisable. On the contrary, any valid proof that none of participants have serious seasonal allergies could strengthen his/her viewpoint.
Granted that seasonal allergies aren't heavy disease and given the feedback of researchers and participants, whether Nosinia work perfectly for severe symptoms needs a second look. Behind the author's reasoning lie two critical implications. The first one is that all of researchers reports the truth of investigation. The probability that they attend to facilitate sales of Nonsia or their researcher results for Nonsinia is partial or even incorrect must be considered and addressed. Yet, if the author could unequivocally demonstrate that their impartial attitudes for such medicine and the validity of their experimental result, his/her viewpoint will be strengthened.
Furthermore, the second implication is that participants are able to report their health status correctly . While it is supposed so from issue's description, the probability that participants mightn't be able to compare with effect after taking Nosinia and placebo could not be excluded in advance. For example, several participants, who suffered severe symptoms for a long time, had already lost conscience to judge how body's response impartially. Thus, we have no clues whether Nosinia really produce relatively better effect than placebo. If no, the guess of superiority of Nosinia is unlikely to be true despite the fact that positive feedback of patients. Otherwise, we might guess it could actually work, creating relief effect.
In summary, while majority of seasonal allergies patients might only react with benign symptoms in practices and Nosinia's inefficacy for those diseases could be drawn from this phenomenon, the author's initial conclusion still cannot derive from the information available in the argument. Furthermore, even if seasonal allergies belongs to minor symptoms as discussed, its efficiency for severe allergy symptoms is still built upon implications, which are open to different probabilities. Only after the aforementioned questions are adequately addressed can we effectively evaluate such recommendation and reach a logically sound conclusion.
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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: 23 15
No. of Words: 512 350
No. of Characters: 2900 1500
No. of Different Words: 276 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.757 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.664 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.969 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 235 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 196 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 154 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 99 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.261 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.266 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.609 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.503 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.14 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...s from both researchers and participants . Quite convincing though such recommenda...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...at requires further analysis. Thus, the authors recommendation could become pretty comp...
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Line 3, column 179, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...wered. It is likely that such guesswork doesnt hold true because some seasonal allergi...
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Line 5, column 33, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...int. Granted that seasonal allergies arent heavy disease and given the feedback of...
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Line 7, column 106, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... to report their health status correctly . While it is supposed so from issues des...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: mightn't
...tion, the probability that participants mightnt be able to compare with effect after ta...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, furthermore, if, look, really, regarding, second, so, still, then, thus, while, for example, in summary, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2961.0 2260.96107784 131% => OK
No of words: 504.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.875 5.12650576532 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02905377526 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 204.123752495 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559523809524 0.468620217663 119% => OK
syllable_count: 911.7 705.55239521 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.1336511854 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.739130435 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9130434783 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95652173913 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.231114947717 0.218282227539 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0706505004139 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0527681388868 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141040610403 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344424463206 0.0628817314937 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.82 12.5979740519 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.63 8.32208582834 116% => OK
difficult_words: 158.0 98.500998004 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.9071856287 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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