The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper.
"The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago. During this same time period, however, the price of milk at the local Excello Food Market has increased from $1.50 to over $3.00 per gallon. To prevent farmers from continuing to receive excessive profits on an apparently increased supply of milk, the Batavia government should begin to regulate retail milk prices. Such regulation is necessary to ensure fair prices for consumers."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author recommends that the government of Batavia should regulate the retail milk prices to ensure fair pricing for the consumers. He supports this recommendation by stating that farmers are making extra profit from apparently increased supply of milk.He mentions that in the last 10 years , number of dairy farms have increased by 25% and the price of milk has doubled , to support the claim.The facts presented are incomplete and do not make a cogent case for the recommendation to involve government.
The cost of milk production and supply may have increased for the farmers over the years.Thus prices have increased.The price has not increased overnight ,it took a decade to increase. We should take into account inflation ,increase in the cost of animal rearing and other factors ,before making vague comparison in prices of milk a decade apart.
We should also note the demand and supply principle in economics. The author has pointed out that 25% farms have increased. He does not mention the increase in volume of milk production and if it is sufficient for the current population. Maybe due to increased demand the product price has gone up.
The author assumes that the farmers are making excessive profits over excessive supply of milk without providing any proof to validate this allegation. It is difficult to digest such statements without verifying their veracity.
The author contends that government regulation will reduce prices . Though it is possible that government may issue inspection certificates to dairy farmers for supplying quality product. To get certified and maintain extra regulation more funds are utilised by farmers. The extra cost ultimately percolates to the consumer. Thus it may also lead to an increase in retail milk prices per gallon.
In the last 10 years , the economic growth and population has also increased. Greater population requires more quantities of milk . Also cost of milk production may have increased. Increase in price needs to be verified with proper research . Involving the government to regulate the retail prices should lead to fair prices , but it is in no way guaranteed that it will lead to reduced prices . Thus all the arguments provided by the author fail to establish that the recommendation is valid.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, if, may, so, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1918.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 367.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22615803815 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80182036065 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.485013623978 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 589.5 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 71.8712946398 57.8364921388 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.3333333333 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4761904762 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.90476190476 5.70786347227 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 27.0 5.25449101796 514% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0603854847364 0.218282227539 28% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0188801294479 0.0743258471296 25% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0303182361079 0.0701772020484 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0351785433085 0.128457276422 27% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0348554663404 0.0628817314937 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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