An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered 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 international development organization has proposed that the government of Tagus should promote a new breed of millet to cure vitamin A deficiency. The support they give is that millet is already a staple food in Tagus and people should readily adopt the new breed. Also, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety. However, a few questions need to be answered for the recommendation.
Firstly, the organization mentions that they engineered a new breed of millet that abounds in vitamin A. But what are the side effects of this new breed of millet? The organization does not enlighten us with the side effects of the new breed. Normally, when something is engineered, meaning made in a lab, the probability of it having more number of side effects than curable effects is high. It could also be that the breed cures vitamin A deficiency for a fleeting period but then revitalizes the problem to even severe extent. If the above does hold true, then the recommendation does not hold water.
Secondly, millet is already a staple food in the Tagus. If the millet is already that's consumed on a regular basis by the people, then why is the village still suffering from Vitamin A deficiency? The new breed is also engineered from a base sample of the original millet. If the organization claims that the new breed is able to cure the deficiency, then chances are the original sample of millet must have properties that are capable of curing the problem. However, the original version of millet is unable to do so. If the original version of millet, being a staple food, cannot cure vitamin A deficiency, the probability of newer breed curing it is likely to be very less. Endangering the masses (with the side effects of new millet) for such a probability along with high charges doesn't seem fit. If the above does hold true, the recommendation needs to be reconsidered.
Lastly, if millet is a staple food in Tagus, then its likely that it's grown in the region. Then why is it that for something that's regional, the seeds for the new type of millet should be costly to the very population that grow the millet? For a newer breed to be made, the very basis of its generation is the original seeds of millet. If the original breed is available profusely for mass production, there is no need for it to be costly. Especially it shouldn't be costly to the very people who grow it. If the above does hold true, then the recommendation is considerably flawed.
As of now, the recommendation is considerably flawed in its foundation. Perhaps if the international organization can give the side effects of the new millets by thorough tests on suitable subjects before deploying them in Tagus, then based on the results obtained from that study, further recommendations can be made. Also, the international organization should give clarification regarding the extra charges for the millet.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 499 350
No. of Characters: 2346 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.726 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.701 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.798 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.192 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.706 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.496 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.134 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
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Suggestion: that's
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Suggestion: shouldn't
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rding the extra charges for the millet.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2412.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 497.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85311871227 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86529853076 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.402414486922 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 769.5 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 2.70958083832 369% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.1146079044 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.3333333333 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4074074074 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.40740740741 5.70786347227 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.435798160134 0.218282227539 200% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134045240109 0.0743258471296 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0885309316957 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271965616032 0.128457276422 212% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0737513821894 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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