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.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author presents many dubious pieces of evidence to support the claim that one should not drink more than two cups of green tea because of the harmful side effects it can cause. The evidence is faulty, however, and the author's claim all but falls apart upon closer examination.
First, the opponent states that green tea has bits of caffeine, which can lead to side effects. The author lists many negative side effects, but fails to consider that more positive effects may outweigh the negative. Caffeine, as seen in coffee, also promotes alertness and energy for a moderate period. Maybe the "irritability and headaches" pale in comparison to the benefits of more caffeine. We don't know. The argument needs additional evidence concerning the degree of negative to postive effects of caffeine to draw a reasonable conclusion.
Moving on, the author cites a study relating green tea to chronic coffee drinking symptoms. Little information is given on the study, casting doubt on the comparisons. Maybe other factors besides the green tea effected the results. We know nothing about the participants of the study other than they drank more than three cups of green tea. It's possible that the paticipants are all around a certain age or all have a similar diet, which may unintentionally skew the results. It's even possible that some of the participants as drank coffee during the study, further muddy-ing the waters. Without more information regarding the test subjects or test practices, the results and conclusions drawn from the study remain unclear.
With so little information on the cited study, no concrete correlation can be drawn between drinking more coffee and drinking more green tea. Furthermore, since green tea's many positive effects of boosting the immune system and anti-aging may possibly outweigh its negative effects, it may actually be beneficial in the long run to drink more green tea.
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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: 17 15
No. of Words: 312 350
No. of Characters: 1566 1500
No. of Different Words: 165 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.203 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.019 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.559 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 112 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.353 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.211 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.521 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 410, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...on to the benefits of more caffeine. We dont know. The argument needs additional evi...
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Line 5, column 500, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...kew the results. Its even possible that some of the participants as drank coffee during the...
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Line 7, column 240, Rule ID: MIGHT_PERHAPS[1]
Message: Use simply 'may', 'possibly'.
Suggestion: may; possibly
...osting the immune system and anti-aging may possibly outweigh its negative effects, it may a...
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Line 7, column 240, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'may'.
Suggestion: may
...osting the immune system and anti-aging may possibly outweigh its negative effects, it may a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, furthermore, however, may, regarding, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 19.6327345309 25% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1618.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 311.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20257234727 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75040871324 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.549839228296 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.5546032034 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1764705882 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2941176471 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.52941176471 5.70786347227 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.240758517781 0.218282227539 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0712721631117 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0802033599772 0.0701772020484 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152781534192 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0740657779221 0.0628817314937 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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.