The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a national newspaper.
"Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in Elthyria maintains that the majority of competent workers who have lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment. But this claim is undermined by a recent report on the Elthyrian economy, which found that since 1999 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated, bringing the unemployment rate in Elthyria to its lowest level in decades. Moreover, two-thirds of these newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time."
*Downsizing is the process whereby corporations deliberately make themselves smaller, reducing the number of their employees.
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.
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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: 12 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 16 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 705 350
No. of Characters: 3289 1500
No. of Different Words: 307 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.153 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.665 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.59 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 209 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 148 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 106 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 72 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.191 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.303 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.501 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 716, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'garments'' or 'garment's'?
Suggestion: garments'; garment's
...ken by the author in the field of other garments factory or corporations where, if it ac...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 783, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , s
...tions where, if it accords to the author,s evidences, job employment level is quit...
^^
Line 5, column 201, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...ost of those jobs demand much more than the the unemployed people hoped for? For exampl...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 201, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...ost of those jobs demand much more than the the unemployed people hoped for? For exampl...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 260, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: of
...people hoped for? For example - if most of of the high wages and vacant jobs, for whi...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 469, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ople will be high to the leftover ones? Also it might be the case that - most of tho...
^^^^
Line 7, column 806, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'complete'
Suggestion: complete
...e a great deal of people and can simply completed by a single person. As a result most of...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 906, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: than
... might require less number of employees than than that of the total ones.This might insis...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 939, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
...loyees than than that of the total ones.This might insist the company to reduce lots...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, second, so, then, third, thirdly, well, for example, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.6327345309 183% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 13.6137724551 169% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 28.8173652695 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 55.5748502994 158% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3373.0 2260.96107784 149% => OK
No of words: 703.0 441.139720559 159% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79800853485 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.14918898149 4.56307096286 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69543082185 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 314.0 204.123752495 154% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446657183499 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 1063.8 705.55239521 151% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => 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: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 50.5637656826 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.92 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.12 23.324526521 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.108458896031 0.218282227539 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.035454851303 0.0743258471296 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0450480079135 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0681278526919 0.128457276422 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0497843276801 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.3550499002 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 168.0 98.500998004 171% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => 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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