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, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
P#1
The director suggests the president to require all of his employees to take the Easy read course as the course can greatly improve the reading ability while its cost is low. It may seem tenable, however, there are several things that are need to be proved, which are as follows:
P#2
Firstly, he needs to prove that the graduate of the course definitely cannot read a 500-page report in only two hours before he took the class. If those graduates originally have strong reading ability, then we cannot measure the effect of the course. What is even worse is that there is possibility that those graduates could read more but due to their wrong way learnt in course they can only read 500 pages in 2 hours.
P#3
Secondly, he needs to prove that the promotion of the graduates is not by accident. There are two things need to be considered under this evidence. One is that the strong reading ability which was obtained in the course had a lot to do with the promotion of that graduate, if he got promotion because of his social skill, then it has no correlation to the course. Another one is that the promotion can be observed in a statistic view, not the only one.
P#4
What’s more, the director needs to prove that fast reading speed can help the workers absorb more information than they used to be. It is common that we usually make mistake when we do things too fast, so there will be huge probability that although the workers read faster, the information they require are less than before as they focus on speed too much.
P#5
Also, it is essential to be proved that the benefit of the course values more than $500 per people while none statistic has been shown in the material. Even we assume that the course will indeed strengthen the reading ability of the employees, but the change is too tiny that makes it an unworthy deal. For example, the employee can already read 450-pages in 2 hours before taking the course, then there is no need to take the course.
P#6
Lastly, he needs to prove that the totally expense of all employees taking this course is affordable. In the material he only states that the cost per person, but let us consider this problem in a more macro view, if there are tremendous amount of employees in the company, then the cost would be countless and thus not affordable. So, it is vital to prove that the totally cost is acceptable.
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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: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 436 350
No. of Characters: 1890 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.57 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.335 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.291 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 123 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 80 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.054 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.812 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.382 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.382 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.196 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 12, column 239, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'amounts'?
Suggestion: amounts
...ore macro view, if there are tremendous amount of employees in the company, then the c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 28.8173652695 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1959.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 430.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.55581395349 5.12650576532 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33053542106 2.78398813304 84% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46511627907 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 603.0 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.8509770522 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.4375 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.875 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201082170832 0.218282227539 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0710541828243 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.069078630162 0.0701772020484 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114294181333 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0599724849315 0.0628817314937 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 12.5979740519 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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