The following appeared in a newspaper article about law firms in the city of Megalopolis. "in Megalopolis, the number of law school graduates who went to work for large, corporate firms declined by 15% over the last three years, whereas an increasing num

In the article, the author draws a conclusion that offering more benefits and incentives help to attract more graduating students to work for large, corporate firms, which seems at first glance convincing, however, a close inspection reveals that this method does not necessarily reach the goal of recruitment for those big companies unless the author could provide the answers to those questions needed to be asked in the reasoning line.

To begin with, the facts and assumptions that are mentioned in the article do not make a cogent case that strengthen the author's conclusion. First, the decl...

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 122, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... make a cogent case that strengthen the authors conclusion. First, the decline in the n...
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Line 3, column 755, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n how to cooperate with other teammates, which will pave the road for their furth...
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Line 5, column 808, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...these evidence to prove the survey, the authors conclusion still remains dubious at bes...
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Line 9, column 29, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...s well. Last but not the least, the authors recommendation is too limited to effect...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, then, third, thirdly, thus, well, in addition, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2929.0 2260.96107784 130% => OK
No of words: 574.0 441.139720559 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10278745645 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89472135074 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77299657588 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 271.0 204.123752495 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47212543554 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 886.5 705.55239521 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 82.4302907581 57.8364921388 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.476190476 119.503703932 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3333333333 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.16494394043 0.218282227539 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0530696017569 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063730446615 0.0701772020484 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0994305140632 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0484532305394 0.0628817314937 77% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 98.500998004 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 574 350
No. of Characters: 2865 1500
No. of Different Words: 262 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.895 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.991 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.681 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 189 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 152 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.163 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.332 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.516 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5