"Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a 500-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read would cost Acme only $500 per employee — a small price to pay when you consider the benefits. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
The author concludes that acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the easy reading course, To justify this conclusion the author notes that easy read speed course has greatly improved productivity. I find the argument logically unconvincing in several respects.
First of all, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the easy reading course, Is based upon the questionable assumption that there are a lot of benefits by easy read speed which greatly improves the productivity. It is entirely possible that the employees may not have a lot of benefits by improving easy read speed. Hence the author generalizes is unreliable
Secondly, the author assumes that there are a lot of benefits by easy read speed which greatly improves productivity. This assumption is unwarranted. It seems equally reasonable to assume that the employees who may not have a lot of benefits by improving easy read speed. hence it is presumption conclude that acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the easy reading course.
Finally, even if there are a lot of benefits by easy read speed which greatly improves productivity is true the argument ignores the possibility that the employees who may have a lot of benefits by improving easy read speed can false. This will lead to an easy reading course does not give any benefits
In sum, this argument is defective mainly because the easy read speed course has greatly improved productivity does not support the conclusion that acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the easy reading course. To strengthen the argument, The author must, at the very least, provide that there are a lot of benefits by easy read speed which greatly improves the productivity.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 299 350
No. of Characters: 1476 1500
No. of Different Words: 102 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.158 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.936 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.675 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.917 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.355 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.51 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.65 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.133 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 348, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... benefits by improving easy read speed. Hence the author generalizes is unreliable ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 273, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Hence
... benefits by improving easy read speed. hence it is presumption conclude that acme wo...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 273, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: hence,
... benefits by improving easy read speed. hence it is presumption conclude that acme wo...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 303, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eading course does not give any benefits In sum, this argument is defective mainl...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 0.0 11.1786427146 0% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1512.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 299.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05685618729 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7425768804 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 204.123752495 49% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.334448160535 0.468620217663 71% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 477.0 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 80.6584473193 57.8364921388 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.454545455 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1818181818 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.54545454545 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.325483276937 0.218282227539 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.177451822529 0.0743258471296 239% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0970548205007 0.0701772020484 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264919208113 0.128457276422 206% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0227100832439 0.0628817314937 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.14 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 41.0 98.500998004 42% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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