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.
The author of the letter suggests that the Batavia government implement regulation on retail milk prices to protect the rights for consumers. This argument is based on a series of assumptions involving growth of dairy farms, increase in milk price as well as supply of milk. We should scrutinize these assumptions, together with the reasoning process behind, to evaluate the soundness of this advice on price control.
The author assumes that the increase in milk supply, with the increase in its price, reflects that milk farmers are gaining exorbitant profits now. This deduction, however, ignores effect of demand on the market: what if the number of milk consumers mounted up significantly during the last decade? More consumers would also drive up the milk price. Moreover, the percentage of change in milk farmer is not convincing enough. If the original base number of domestic milk suppliers is small, then even for 25 percent growth, the corresponding influence on milk price would be negligible compared with other factors. To ensure the effect of supply side, further investigation as more concrete statistics about the change of dairy farms and their consumers in absolute value is necessary.
Another reasoning, that the rise of milk price from $1.5 to $3.0 indicate the control over dairy price is need, is not sound enough. If the economy of Batavia is booming during the last decade, then inflation of prices on daily items is unavoidable. To prove that the current milk price is exorbitant, we need data reflecting the overall price level in Batavia to serve as a comparison. On the other side, if the average income of Batavia citizens also doubled in the past ten years, this increase in milk price is be reasonable, while government interference on price control would be redundant.
It is also worth noting that the author premises that the increase of domestic dairy farms means the “apparent increase” in nationwide milk supply. This argument, however, forgets the potential effect of imported products. One scenario could be that Batavia has been heavily relied on foreign dairy supply, while domestic dairy product only consists a small proportion of its entire market. Under such circumstance, imposing regulations on retail milk prices towards domestic farmers could hardly be effective, and this policy may also discourage Batavian farmers to produce dairy product, thus precipitating the nations reliance on milk imports.
By the analysis above, before enacting regulations on milk retail, the Batavia government need to collect more information about its domestic dairy market on both supply and demand side, as well as on import of dairy products. Only after extensive investigation could we reach a more reliable and accurate conclusion concerning price control.
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 446 350
No. of Characters: 2294 1500
No. of Different Words: 212 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.596 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.143 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.615 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 181 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 130 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.474 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.748 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.632 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.357 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.556 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.107 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 512, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...n years, this increase in milk price is be reasonable, while government interferen...
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Line 7, column 624, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
...e dairy product, thus precipitating the nations reliance on milk imports. By the ana...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, thus, well, while, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2369.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 446.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31165919283 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76272946442 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504484304933 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 743.4 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8054942513 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.684210526 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4736842105 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.84210526316 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.115733354683 0.218282227539 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0437806852589 0.0743258471296 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0277702967724 0.0701772020484 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0751422315425 0.128457276422 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0141540719377 0.0628817314937 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 98.500998004 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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