Green tea has long been hailed as an excellent source of antioxidants, powerful anti-aging and immune-system boosting compounds. Many people therefore believe that the more cups they consume each day, the greater the benefits. Green tea, however, contains moderate amounts of caffeine, a stimulant that is not without side effects, including sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches. A long-term study has found that those who drink more than three cups of green tea a day are likely to have symptoms similar to those that chronic coffee drinkers, another source of caffeine, suffer. Therefore, it is important that anyone who chooses to drink green tea limit their intake to no more than two cups a day.
Given the attractive benefits green tea has to offer, one can understand why someone would want to maximize these benefits by drinking a much green tea as possible. The argument, in advising users of green tea to limit their consumption to 2 cups a day, definitely shows the concern the author of the argument has regarding green tea consumption of people. However, it is based on unreliable sources of information and inaccurately represents the findings of the study it is based on.
It is stated that caffeine is known to have side effects but the argument provides no quantified information about the amount in which caffeine can cause those side effects. The arguments bases its claim on a study which found that the side effects of caffeine occur when more than 3 cups of green tea is consumed. We can not be sure if the subjects of the long-term study were representative of all humans. Caffeine tolerance of different individuals differ. Therefore, more than 3 cups of green tea might cause the side effect in one person and might not in another. Meanwhile, someone else might start to see the side effects just after having 1 cup. This stringent generalization of more than 3 cups is thus wrong and the details need to be in terms of amount of caffeine rather than number of cups for an average caffeine tolerance level.
Additionally the terminology of "3 cups" in the conclusion of the study is too vague to be a reliable parameter. Cups come in varying sizes depending upon multiple factors like usage, location, etc. Cups made for tea are generally smaller than coffee cups. Cups in certain countries are made bigger than other's. Again, more information about the cup dimensions used in the study is needed.
Finally, the arguments concludes, based on the conclusion that 3 cups is the limit, one must drink no more than 2 cups of green tea to avoid side effects. Here we can clearly see the inaccurate representation of a study that is unreliable to start with.
As we can see that the heart of the author of the argument is at right place but he/she fails to make a convincing case against over-consumption of green tea due to lack of above mentioned evidence.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 380 350
No. of Characters: 1762 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.415 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.637 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.711 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.878 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.364 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.593 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.127 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'base'.
Suggestion: base
...cause those side effects. The arguments bases its claim on a study which found that t...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Additionally,
...an average caffeine tolerance level. Additionally the terminology of '3 cups' i...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, regarding, so, therefore, thus, while, as to, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1819.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 379.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79947229551 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77553747971 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498680738786 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 576.0 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7883709187 57.8364921388 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.055555556 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0555555556 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.205264735308 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691631564338 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589513488168 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124085617471 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0540341871257 0.0628817314937 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.