Increasing taxes on tobacco
The reading and the lecture both talk about tax on tobacco. The reading passage says that there are several positive effects of increasing tax on tobacco. The lecturer, however, says that these advantages mentioned in the reading are not beneficial at all.
To begin with, the article contends that increasing taxes on cigarettes will prevent the young people from starting smocking because of its higher retail price. On the contrary, the lecturer disagrees with this argument. He claims that a study shows that when taxes on tobaccos goes high, teenagers more likely to buy them from the black market. To be more specific, the young can obtain tobacco in black market with lower price, even without checking their identification.
Secondly, the author, in the reading, says that the money that is profited from higher taxes enables to recover the polluted environment which was damaged by cultivating tobacco. By contrary, the lecturer casts doubt on this assertion. He insists that this money will not be directly used for planting new trees and alleviate detrimental chemicals. He also adds that if tobacco price goes up, people are reluctant to buy them, it will end up decreasing money to cure the environment.
The final point made in the reading is that the government is able to utilize this revenue which is aggregated by higher taxes on cigarettes to mitigate the poor. However, the lecturer goes against this point by stating that the reality will become worse because tobacco business has been creating jobs in a myriad of fields, such as agriculture, manufacture, and retail industry.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 156, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...e effects of increasing tax on tobacco. The lecturer, however, says that these adva...
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Line 17, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...manufacture, and retail industry.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, second, secondly, so, such as, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1361.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 262.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19465648855 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59609331182 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580152671756 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 417.6 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.2280129489 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.692307692 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1538461538 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15384615385 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.330282968907 0.272083759551 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119872522055 0.0996497079465 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127800104945 0.0662205650399 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206404059752 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0981177021154 0.0443174109184 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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