The following appeared as part of an article in a weekly news magazine:
“The country of Sacchar can best solve its current trade deficit problem by lowering the price of sugar, its primary export. Such an action would make Sacchar better able to compete for markets with other sugar-exporting countries. The sale of Sacchar’s sugar abroad would increase, and this increase would substantially reduce Sacchar’s trade
deficit.” Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc.
The argument that lowering price sugar will create competitive advantage over other exporting countries, eventually would lead to a decrease of trade deficit in the country of Sacchar is not entirely logically convincing, because it ignores certain crucial assumptions.
Firstly, the argument assumes that lower prices will give better sales in the market, but argument didn't provide anything about other sugar-exporting countries. It isn't sure that lowering price, is best option for country. That why assumption need something else to support conclusion that after lowering prices, Sacchar will sell its sugar lower that any other country which become a preferred supply for buyers. For example, if Brazil sell its sugar for 50 $ for a tonnes, Sacchar have to decrease its price below of the 50 $. Additionally, author forget that lowering prices lead to lower revenue from exports that actually could increase deficit rather that to drop.
Secondly, the argument never addressees annual import of country. Author's logic saw to increase in exports, also decrease deficit but perhaps country have to seek reducing their imports from other countries that with even current exports, they will decrease deficit. This method is also option that author forgot. For example, most countries put high taxes to the imports to block deficit problem in trade and also direct money their own industries and businesses. Especially, European Union have strict protectionist policies that set by standards of products and documents about their origins. These policies prevent small and undeveloped countries enter to biggest market in the world.
Thirdly, the argument owns no any data about total statistic of exports. According to given details, sugar is primary export of country. There is known rules that dependency in a commodity in trade is risk. That's why countries try to diversify their exports to other countries. If Sacchar are dependent to exporting its sugar and revenues from it, country have to decrease its imports rather than to applying given method.
Finally, the argument omits geographical position of Sacchar in the world. Location of seller is important for buyers because of transporting cost and governmental organizations. If Sacchar is situated in the ocean's shore, it have advantage about transporting commodity with tankers that is the cheapest way right now. Being landlocked country make them to transport their sugar with planes or vehicles which is more expensive in comparing tankers. If Sacchar is located inside European Union, it has huge trade advantages versus others like buying commodities only from countries inside of the EU. For example, France is heart of European Union in agriculture that provide most commodities to all countries with higher price and without competition.
Thus, the argument is not completely sound.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: $50
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Suggestion: to the biggest
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'third', 'thirdly', 'thus', 'for example']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.293279022403 0.25644967241 114% => OK
Verbs: 0.150712830957 0.15541462614 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.081466395112 0.0836205057962 97% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0570264765784 0.0520304965353 110% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0346232179226 0.0272364105082 127% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.140529531568 0.125424944231 112% => OK
Participles: 0.040733197556 0.0416121511921 98% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.6785875869 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0366598778004 0.026700313972 137% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0529531568228 0.113004496875 47% => Some determiners wanted.
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0122199592668 0.0255425247493 48% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0162932790224 0.0127820249294 127% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2866.0 2731.13054187 105% => OK
No of words: 445.0 446.07635468 100% => OK
Chars per words: 6.4404494382 6.12365571057 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.431460674157 0.378187486979 114% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.34606741573 0.287650121315 120% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.240449438202 0.208842608468 115% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.125842696629 0.135150697306 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6785875869 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 207.018472906 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52808988764 0.469332199767 113% => OK
Word variations: 61.2398905842 52.1807786196 117% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.039408867 120% => OK
Sentence length: 18.5416666667 23.2022227129 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3662349257 57.7814097925 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.416666667 141.986410481 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5416666667 23.2022227129 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.583333333333 0.724660767414 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 3.58251231527 307% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 53.1484082397 51.9672348444 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.95798319328 1.8405768891 106% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.332700201183 0.441005458295 75% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0788045641803 0.135418324435 58% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0657023891582 0.0829849096947 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.48998380122 0.58762219726 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.192108982327 0.147661913831 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11935100474 0.193483328276 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0703546211795 0.0970749176394 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.308959134979 0.42659136922 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0706720497947 0.0774707102158 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207968098091 0.312017818177 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677774363891 0.0698173142475 97% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.87684729064 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.82512315271 166% => OK
Positive topic words: 0.0 6.46551724138 0% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 14.657635468 89% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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