At first glance, it may seem logical to agree with the author's argument that Acme would improve the work productivity of the employees by requiring all employees to take the Easy Read Speed-reading course. The evidence presented is mentioning that other companies have had success with program, an employee increased their reading speed dramatically, and how an employee was promoted because of how effective this program was for them. There are numerous flaws that exist in this argument; therefore, I will examine the assumptions and describe what the implications are if the assumptions prove to be unwarranted.
Firstly, it is assumed that the employee's improvements in productivity for 'many other companies' are due to the use of this program. The argument depends on this assumption because it uses this vague language to describe how it was effective for others in the past. If this proves to be unwarranted the implication for this is wasting five hundred dollars per employee and the productivity remains unchanged.
Secondly, the author assumes that an employee was promoted from assistant manager to vice president of the company because of this program. We can't be certain that this elevation in work status is due to reading faster. The implications for this assumption if it is unjustified are employees do not enough demonstrate improved efficiency to justify a promotion and false hope is provided to those that work within this company.
Thirdly, stating that the faster someone could read means that they can absorb more information within a single day is the next assumption. Someone could read things very quickly and not retain any of the information they've read. Just because the speed of which the reading is done increases doesn't ensure that the reader absorbs a greater amount of knowledge. The consequence for this assumption if it proves to be unwarranted is employees are under pressure to sift through more information during their shift and retain less information than if they were to go at a slower pace.
In conclusion, since many holes exist within this argument for the reasons that I have described in detail above, we can be certain about the implications I've explained when the assumptions are proven to be unwarranted.
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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: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 371 350
No. of Characters: 1869 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.389 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.038 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.812 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.346 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.602 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 56, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
..., it may seem logical to agree with the authors argument that Acme would improve the wo...
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Line 5, column 144, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...the company because of this program. We cant be certain that this elevation in work ...
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Line 7, column 218, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: they've
...y and not retain any of the information theyve read. Just because the speed of which t...
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Line 7, column 293, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... of which the reading is done increases doesnt ensure that the reader absorbs a greate...
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Line 9, column 156, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I've
...e can be certain about the implications Ive explained when the assumptions are prov...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, as for, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1901.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 368.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16576086957 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86730884404 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.513586956522 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 589.5 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.6092192238 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.785714286 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2857142857 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.78571428571 5.70786347227 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.228671841844 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0889337569631 0.0743258471296 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0713003028445 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127873055731 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0676853928056 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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