In this argument, the author recommends that employees at Dexter Gorman Instruments should complete their work during the regular 40-hour work week and allow overtime only for urgent circumstances. To substantiate this recommendation, the author provide evidence based on an internal study. However, there are many questions needed to be gone through to determine whether the recommendation and argument are reasonable.
First, it is unclear that whether the respondents has told the truth in this year' survey. It is possible that they do not have the courage to tell the truth given that they have the perception that the conductor, namely the company, is wish them to avow the positive relationship between work time and the quality of their work, and they may be punished by means of fines or fire otherwise. Without ruling out this possibility, the result of survey is not convincing.
Second, it is not informed whether the overtime group and non-overtime group have the initial differences in terms of work quality. If the employees in the overtime group are inept at working whether they take overtime or not, then the more work errors in the overtime group may be not occasioned by working time. Without taking this possibility into consideration, it is unfairly to conclude that taking more time to complete work is responsible for the more work errors.
Third, it is questionable whether sample size is enough to represent the whole company both in this year's survey and the recent internal study. It is possible that the samples studied are special cases and are too limited to elicit the whole picture. Without addressing this issue, the recommendation is not reliable.
Fourth, even if the questions above have been addressed, it is still problematic whether there are other potential factors contributing the more work errors in the overtime group. It is possible that there is just a correlation between working time and work quality, which is not necessarily infer a causal relationship. For example, it is the experience and skills rather than the working time that result in the differences between the two experimental groups. Without ruling out other possible factors, the author cannot justifiably conclude that working time is responsible for the quality of work.
To sum up, the recommendation and the argument can be evaluated only after taking the questions mentioned adequately addressed.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 389 350
No. of Characters: 1986 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.441 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.105 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.799 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.882 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.035 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.34 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.62 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, still, then, third, as to, for example, to sum up, to tell the truth
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2041.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 389.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24678663239 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88295748914 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480719794344 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 639.9 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3595235579 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.058823529 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8823529412 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47058823529 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155283578813 0.218282227539 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0543961979346 0.0743258471296 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0444212703881 0.0701772020484 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.081038444305 0.128457276422 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0435824741424 0.0628817314937 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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