The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper.
"The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago. During this same time period, however, the price of milk at the local Excello Food Market has increased from $1.50 to over $3.00 per gallon. To prevent farmers from continuing to receive excessive profits on an apparently increased supply of milk, the Batavia government should begin to regulate retail milk prices. Such regulation is necessary to ensure fair prices for consumers."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order 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.
In the argument, the author concludes that the retail milk prices should be controlled by the Batavia Government to ensure a proper pricing of goods for the consumers. The author landed on this idea based on a report made by the department of agriculture of Batavia and comparing the price change of milk at the local Excello Food market in a 10 years time period. Although the author’s conclusion may prove to be true, as it currently stands, the author must provide pieces of evidence for three unjustified assumptions if he wants to be more persuasive.
Firstly, the author assumes that the report given by the department of agriculture in Batavia is done in a precise, scientific manner. Perhaps, that may not be the case. For example, if the report was done by people who are not properly trained to collect data from different sources accurately, the report would be faulty and be of no use. In addition, even if the report was gathered properly, it might not have considered farms that have closed down during the 10 years, which would contribute to the price hike of retail milk products. If any of the above circumstances are found to be true, it can diminish the credibility of the author’s argument.
Moreover, the author, without any proper evidence, assumes that increased price of the retail milk in Excello Food Market, is a reflection of a continuous trend that will persist in Batavia. In some cases, it may not be true. For instance, maybe this trend is temporary, and the prices have gone up only in the recent few years due to a certain scarcity of a product that is used to produce milk containers. Also, maybe the prices of Excello Food Market is an exception and in the other markets the prices are not inflated that much compared to the previously mentioned market. If these two scenarios are found true, the persuasiveness of the author’s memoranda will not hold water.
Finally, in the argument, the author assumes that the production cost of producing milk has remained the same over the span of 10 years. In many cases, this may not true. If we see that the maintenance cost of the machines that are used in the industries of Batavia had increased, that would certainly put a dent on the prices of the milk products. Also, there might be an increase in labor cost, for instance, the government of Batavia might have fixed a minimum wage for the workers, which may have contributed to the inflation of milk prices. Again, there may also be an increase in taxes, which can also influence the prices to up. If these speculations are found to be authentic, then the author’s argument will fail to make a persuasive case for the Batavia government.
In conclusion, it may be true that the Batavia government should regulate the prices of milk products for the consumers, to make a compelling case for the government, the author must provide additional pieces of evidence regarding the above three assumptions to make a strong, valid argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 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: 514 350
No. of Characters: 2392 1500
No. of Different Words: 208 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.761 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.654 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.583 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 164 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.7 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.398 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.9 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.339 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.339 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, in many cases, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.9520958084 170% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 55.5748502994 131% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2474.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 514.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81322957198 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70922762167 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437743190661 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 778.5 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.5196819891 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.7 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.95 5.70786347227 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.12329080258 0.218282227539 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0461185740681 0.0743258471296 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0569902571069 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0808802288027 0.128457276422 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442080936626 0.0628817314937 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 98.500998004 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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