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 personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Compay recommends that the company, inorder to improve the overall productivity, should require all of their employees to take the Easy Read Speed-Reading course. They support their recommendation by citing two examples of other companies who took the course, where one graduate of the course was able to read 500-page report in only two hours and another graduate rose from an assitstant manager to vice president in under a year. However, before determining whether this recommendation is likely to achieve the predicted outcome, three questions need to be answered. By addressing these questions, we can evaluate the recommendation more effectively.
First of all, whether all the employees of Acme Publishing Company, irrespective of their role and designation, benefit equally from the speed-reading course? Reading large documents may not be a requirement in many roles, and thus a speed-reading course would not necessarily increase their productivity. For example, someone who works in finance department would be spending most of their time in crunching numbers and building financial models, and would seldom require reading large documents. A website developer wouldn't spend most of thier time reading documents. In such cases, a speed-reading course wouldn't help in increasing their productivity. Whereas, for someone who works in legal department, who often spend their time lingering over large documents, a speed-reading course would be very much beneficial. Therefore, answering this question would give us a better picture of whether making the course mandatory for every employee would be beneficial or not.
Secondly, did the graduate who rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year, was able to do so solely because of the speed-reading course and there were no other factors involved? Maybe this person also took another course, for example, on giving better presentations which had a bigger impact on their quick promotion. Perhaps they worked for extra hours and went out of their way in achieving their deliverables, which impressed the management and promoted them quickly. Without looking at other factors, it would be incorrect to say that the person got promoted to vice president in under a year beacuse they took the speed-reading course.
Thirdly, is it possible to grasp the contents of a document by speed-reading it? Speed-reading does indeed save time and therefore one can finish reading more documents in a day. But does this imply one can also absorb more information? It is possible that we miss some intricate details and fail to notice some hidden meaning when we try to speed-read a document. In such a case, being able to read more documents does not necessarily mean that one would grasp more information and thus a speed-reading course wouldn't make them more productive.
In conclusion, we see that, although the author's recommendation seems reasonable, it is missing some key information. By answering the above questions, we would be able to better evaluate whether making speed-reading course mandatory for all employees would achieve the desired results.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 506 350
No. of Characters: 2642 1500
No. of Different Words: 242 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.743 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.221 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.955 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 196 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 155 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 105 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 80 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.837 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.159 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
.... In such cases, a speed-reading course wouldnt help in increasing their productivity. ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...rmation and thus a speed-reading course wouldnt make them more productive. In conclu...
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Line 9, column 42, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...n conclusion, we see that, although the authors recommendation seems reasonable, it is ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, look, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, whereas, for example, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2708.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 503.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38369781312 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73578520332 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04071630993 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495029821074 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 832.5 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.8975667832 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.090909091 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8636363636 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.45454545455 5.70786347227 113% => 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 : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.328198358836 0.218282227539 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10734705667 0.0743258471296 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0851498860227 0.0701772020484 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188175298253 0.128457276422 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0807246350364 0.0628817314937 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.5979740519 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 98.500998004 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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