The following appeared in the summary of a study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia."Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, f

The given summary is based on a study on headache suffered by the people of Mentia, which propose that salicylates, which are members of same chemical family of aspirin, will steady decline in the number of headaches suffered by the average people of Mentia. There is a lot of evidence needed in order to effectively evaluate this argument. Without a mention of the required evidence, the argument will fail apart.

First of all, the author said that salicylates are the same as aspirin. This is might not be true, as the chemical bonding of salicylates and aspirin should be the same for this. There might other reasons that's why people don't feel headache.

The author stated that food-processing companies are adding salicylates to foods for preservation and they found that their is a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported over the last twenty-year study. But, the author didn't provide any logical data of the survey report which can convince us to believe him. Moreover, there is no indication where they surveyed, how many are the, their age, gender, height-weight, history of headache in their family. All those data is needed to evaluate this argument.

In the end, the author stated that food-processing companies are planning to add salicylates as a flavor additive for foods. The author assumed that citizens of Mentia will adopt this new change. It only depends on the citizens fo Mantia whether they like it or not.

As, there is no concrete further evidence, the food-processing companies might intentionally be mixing salicylates with foods to increase their profits. We don't know whether salicylates are addictive or not if so, the food processing companies are manipulating the citizens of Mantia and that will harmful for the people of Mantia.

Thus, in order to evaluate the given argument, lots of evidence needs to be furnished. It is vague whether salicylates will decrease headaches or not, as no such clear cut evidence is provided to evaluate it. unless the argument is backed up with substantial evidence, it will remain unstable and unsuitable to be taken into account.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, moreover, so, thus, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1782.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 350.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09142857143 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80081037836 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.505714285714 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 573.3 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 55.0718105839 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.0 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4444444444 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.66666666667 5.70786347227 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.187213405075 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0534056133404 0.0743258471296 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0752438371479 0.0701772020484 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0992419159687 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0676372132219 0.0628817314937 108% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 353 350
No. of Characters: 1724 1500
No. of Different Words: 165 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.335 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.884 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.764 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.765 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.304 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.353 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.317 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.605 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5