In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay inorder to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweekfor four-fifths (80 percent)of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option. The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring morestaff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase company profits. For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rates. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate. Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests, or enjoying leisure activities
The reading and lecture are both about whether or not offering a weekly four-day job for the employees are beneficial to their companies. The author of the reading argues that allowing to choose for this new job timeline and pay less money will increase their companies' profit. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. she believes that none of the author's explanations is plausible.
First of all, the writer claims that working in a short amount of time allows to staffs to feel more relaxed and energetic than ever before. As a result, he states that they will make fewer mistakes and paying 80 percent of the staffs' normal pay will affect positively to their businesses' economy. The point is challenged by the lecturer. she says that training and medical costs are the same as the previous job timeline's product, so it won't influence much their companies' profit. Furthermore, she points out that hiring more employees require more office spaces and it is not a profitable alternative to it.
Secondly, the author suggests that it will significantly reduce the unemployment number because the companies can hire more part-time staff to complete some of the full-time workers' jobs. this argument is rebutted by the lecturer. she elaborates on this by mentioning that if some workers choose to work overtime, their employers have to pay more money. Moreover, she notes that if the companies raise higher their expectations about the amount of productivity of their workers as the previous ones, it will put more burden on their staffs' shoulders to fulfil their companies target.
Finally, the author mentions that if employees spend more time with their family, it will definitely increase their life quality and will give them opportunities to enhance their skills. The lecturer, on the other hand, feels that having excessive free time will harm their productivities and it will reduce their motivation to promote their careers because the companies must offer the higher positions to their overtime workers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 40, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
The reading and lecture are both about whether or not offering a weekly four-day job for the ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 187, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'choosing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: choosing
...hor of the reading argues that allowing to choose for this new job timeline and pay less ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 280, 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.
...y will increase their companies profit. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
^^^
Line 1, column 340, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...oubt on the claims made in the article. she believes that none of the authors expla...
^^^
Line 3, column 340, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...he point is challenged by the lecturer. she says that training and medical costs ar...
^^^
Line 5, column 153, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...n hire more part-time staff to complete some of the full-time workers jobs. this argument i...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 189, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...ete some of the full-time workers jobs. this argument is rebutted by the lecturer. s...
^^^^
Line 5, column 232, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...s argument is rebutted by the lecturer. she elaborates on this by mentioning that i...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 22.412803532 201% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1716.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 333.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15315315315 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62541133474 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537537537538 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 523.8 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.5829458951 49.2860985944 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.4 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21682734421 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0702844766545 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0679045880869 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140207581184 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0418440506681 0.0443174109184 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 63.6247240618 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 40, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
The reading and lecture are both about whether or not offering a weekly four-day job for the ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 187, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'choosing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: choosing
...hor of the reading argues that allowing to choose for this new job timeline and pay less ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 280, 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.
...y will increase their companies profit. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
^^^
Line 1, column 340, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...oubt on the claims made in the article. she believes that none of the authors expla...
^^^
Line 3, column 340, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...he point is challenged by the lecturer. she says that training and medical costs ar...
^^^
Line 5, column 153, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...n hire more part-time staff to complete some of the full-time workers jobs. this argument i...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 189, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...ete some of the full-time workers jobs. this argument is rebutted by the lecturer. s...
^^^^
Line 5, column 232, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...s argument is rebutted by the lecturer. she elaborates on this by mentioning that i...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 22.412803532 201% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1716.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 333.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15315315315 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62541133474 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537537537538 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 523.8 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.5829458951 49.2860985944 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.4 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21682734421 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0702844766545 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0679045880869 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140207581184 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0418440506681 0.0443174109184 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 63.6247240618 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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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.