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 Batavia newspaper recommend to regulate the milk prices considering that farmers are receiving higher profits. But their conclusion is supported on no proper research. Or else if few questions are answered truthfully, then the conclusion of regulating the milk prices would be recommendable.
Firstly, what are the sources and how much increase is supply of milk has happened? So, the increase in milk supply is not mentioned and it may be possible that in those 10 years, farmers may have experienced decrease in the milk supply. Thus, to match the demand and need of the country, farmers would have increased the rates of milk. Another way possible is as the dairy farm market has increased, there is a possibility that few farmers would contaminate the milk and sold it in less price. However, to maintain the quality and reputation, good traders would have to increase the milk price. If either case results in true then the writer’s conclusion does not hold any point as there would be no excessive profits for farmers. Thus, there would be no necessary regulation.
Secondly, at what price does Excello food market buy milk from the farmers? There is no research done at what price the Food market buys the milk and what is their share in the profit. It might be possible that farmers would be selling the milk at the nominal rate only, but the food market to increase their profit return would be increasing the milk rate and sell it at higher rates. Thus, if this argument holds some truthfulness then the government should first cross check the prices with farmers and food market and then ensure fair prices.
Lastly, Isn’t the research data of comparing a matter with 10 years gap period to vague? Or else they should have also seen the general economic changes that have happened in those last 10 years. Thus, if the general economy of the country has increased in past 10 years. There would have been also increase in the price rates of milk. This might be scene that farmers would have been selling the milk at same profit rate. And just because of the national economy growth, the price rates are increased after 10 years. And as experience suggests that this could be true. Thus, leading no space for the newspaper to claim this regulation.
In conclusion. If all the above stated questions hold any place and results in true then the newspaper claim would be not to rely on. The newspapers would need to research to the core of the problems. They should try to answer those questions and then suggest the conclusion of regulating the milk price. They should not also claim that farmers are having excess profits without any supportable proof.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 461 350
No. of Characters: 2155 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.634 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.675 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.333 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.074 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.247 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.741 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.308 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.482 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.086 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 23, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'recommend regulating'.
Suggestion: recommend regulating
The Batavia newspaper recommend to regulate the milk prices considering that farmer...
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Line 7, column 357, Rule ID: SCENE_SEEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'seen'?
Suggestion: seen
... the price rates of milk. This might be scene that farmers would have been selling th...
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Line 9, column 404, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... profits without any supportable proof.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.9520958084 178% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2228.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 460.0 441.139720559 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84347826087 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44255359264 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.426086956522 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 660.6 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.7094385024 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.6923076923 119.503703932 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6923076923 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.84615384615 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 8.20758483034 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0416750922483 0.218282227539 19% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0159424037172 0.0743258471296 21% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0217532923405 0.0701772020484 31% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0274675353226 0.128457276422 21% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.028181259199 0.0628817314937 45% => 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: 10.2 14.3799401198 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 48.3550499002 147% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 12.197005988 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.29 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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