The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.
"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, to improve overall productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author suggests that all the employees of Acme Company should be required to take the Easy Read course, according to the benefits it will give and the low cost of the course. Although supported by some examples, since the argument relies on several unanswered questions, this recommendation needs to be evaluated.
To begin with, an important question is whether the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course can truly help on improving the employees' productivity. Although the author lists two graduates as examples and they did really well in work, we can not affirm that they benefit a lot from the course, since the lack of comparison between before and after taking the course. If the first graduate can initially read very fast and the second graduate rose his role mainly because of some other reasons, then taking such courses seems not to be very helpful on them. Thus, requiring all the employees to take the course and expecting their improvement in productivity will be unreasonable.
Besides, even this course does help the employees, whether every employee will benefit from the Easy Read Course is also indispensable for evaluating this recommendation. Seems that the author believes this course will help everyone and thus recommends it to all the employees. However, the two examples mentioned in the argument might just be specialists and no evidence shows that every graduate does better in reading speed, whether this course is suitable for everyone is dubious. Requiring all of the employees to take the course will not obviously improve the overall productivity if only part of them can improve their productivity after taking the course, and even undermine the productivity because of the waste of time and sources.
After answering the two abovementioned questions, we can still not ascertain that requiring all of the company's workers to take the Easy Read course is a great recommendation since we do not know if there are other similar courses that cost less and/or have a better performance. If all of the employees are required to take courses for fast-reading, then a similar course which costs less than $500 can be definitely a better choice, no matter for the employees or for the company. Thus, without answering if a better choice exists, suggesting the company to require all of its employees to take the Easy Read course can be too perfunctory.
In conclusion, although the author believes taking the course will help improve overall productivity since he failed to answer the above questions, his recommendation is unevaluated at best.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 421 350
No. of Characters: 2108 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.53 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.007 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.776 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.071 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.051 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.437 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.65 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.183 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 116, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
... Course can truly help on improving the employees productivity. Although the author lists...
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Line 5, column 496, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...able for everyone is dubious. Requiring all of the employees to take the course will not o...
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Line 7, column 93, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... can still not ascertain that requiring all of the companys workers to take the Easy Read ...
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Line 7, column 284, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ss and/or have a better performance. If all of the employees are required to take courses ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, however, if, really, second, so, still, then, thus, well, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2157.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 420.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13571428571 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85981918303 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447619047619 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 667.8 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 47.1372832203 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.071428571 119.503703932 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0 23.324526521 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.71428571429 5.70786347227 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304213461269 0.218282227539 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125521267336 0.0743258471296 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680968105391 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177080796892 0.128457276422 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0472011602821 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 48.3550499002 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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