In the preceding argument, the author claims that Cold-away is the most effective over the counter medication for cold symptoms, the conclusion is based in the following premises. Firstly, the author states that doctors prefer to use Cold-away medication more than Coldx at hospitals. Secondly, Cold-away is available in markets for longer time. Thirdly, it has minimal side effects such drowsiness in contrast increase blood pressure as a adverse effect of Coldex medication. Hence, in the first glance it may seem plausible. However, careful scrutiny sheds light on plethora of assumptions.
To begin with, the author state a fact that Cold-away is more effective than Coldx and the evidence that undermine the assumption is the doctors prefer using it at hospitals. In other words, he fails to mention why doctors prefer using it?, how he concluded the assumption? and what is the relation between using Cold-away as a first choice drug. Perhaps this medication is cheaper and all the issue is to decrease the over all cost. In such case the assumption would be significantly weakened.
Second, even there is a good indicator that Cold-away has been longer time in the markets, this does not necessarily indicate conspicuous relation. In other words, the author fails to mention how he concluded this assumption, perhaps it has been for longer time because the factory has been present before any other ones, or perhaps people used to use this medication as an old version. So, building decision depends on weak indications is not reliable.
Thirdly, the fallacy of the argument also lies in fact that it presumes that Cold-away is better than Coldx because it has minimal side effect such drowsiness but the one fact perhaps taking it during the day will affect the people awake and productivity. In contrast, that perhaps taking Coldx with slight effect on blood pressure will never affect them and it may be good for people complain from low blood pressure.Hence, no evidence toward bolstering the conclusion.
In conclusion, the argument fails to mention one key factors. Namely, the author recommendation towards Cold-away medication is not significant and plantant. Thus, without complete information the argument is unsubstantiated and opened to debate.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 364 350
No. of Characters: 1854 1500
No. of Different Words: 173 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.368 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.093 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.673 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.55 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.317 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.546 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.087 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 439, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... in contrast increase blood pressure as a adverse effect of Coldex medication. He...
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Line 3, column 275, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
...g it?, how he concluded the assumption? and what is the relation between using Cold...
^^^
Line 7, column 9, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...indications is not reliable. Thirdly, the fallacy of the argument also lies in...
^^
Line 7, column 420, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Hence
...people complain from low blood pressure.Hence, no evidence toward bolstering the conc...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, in conclusion, in contrast, in fact, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1917.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 363.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28099173554 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81548090712 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.504132231405 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 585.9 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 63.2114246836 57.8364921388 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.894736842 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1052631579 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.52631578947 5.70786347227 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.1943495853 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0631552431005 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531818053325 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11230104967 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442479118982 0.0628817314937 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => 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: 13.34 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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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.