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, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author of this analytical piece argues that Acme would benefit greatly by requiring their employees to use the Easy Read Course. Several key factors are missing with the hewlp of which the argument can be evaluated very easily. However, on careful scrutiny it is revealed that the evidences stated by the author provides little credible support to the conclusion made by the author. Thus, the argument of the author is incomplete and unsubstantiate.
Firstly, it is mentioned in the argument that one graduate of the course can read a 500-page in only two hours. This raises many questions that must be answered like What is the font size used? What is the page size used? It might be possible that the font size is larger than some standard size. Also, at the same time it is possible that the size of the paper used is comparatively smaller. If it is true than reading 500-pages might not be considered an achievement as, discussed by the author. Hence, adequate information about these questions must be provided by the author for the better evaluation on this contention.
Secondly, it is stated that another graduate got promoted from the post of assistant manager to vice president within the span of a year. But, there is no where mentioned in the argument that this promotion is due to the effects produced by the benefits of him undertaking the course. It might also be possible that the promotion was due to ardent nature and steadfastness for his vocation. Thus, the author must provide with the specific information about the promotion of the graduate in order to, better understand the arguement.
Thirdly, it is assumed in the contention that the faster you can read, the more you can grasp in single workday. Yet, there is no evidence that supports the assumption made by the author. Therefore, the author must provide some proof of the mentioned statement for better assessment of the contention. It is also possible that the assumption is wrong and hence, the conclusion might get affected. Assuming that it is true it does not gaurantee that whatever grasped will be true.
To sum up, the argument of the author that the Acme would greatly benefit by asking their employees to take the Easy Read Course is unpersuasive. To bolster it further, the author must provide clear and concrete evidence that supports his contention, perhaps by the way of detailed analysis on how the Easy Read Course is helpful in increseing benefits for the Acme. Thus, further more information is required for the better evaluation of the analytical piece presented by the author.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 153, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...ithin the span of a year. But, there is no where mentioned in the argument that th...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'therefore', 'third', 'thirdly', 'thus', 'by the way', 'it is true', 'to sum up']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.20625 0.25644967241 80% => OK
Verbs: 0.166666666667 0.15541462614 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0895833333333 0.0836205057962 107% => OK
Adverbs: 0.04375 0.0520304965353 84% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0395833333333 0.0272364105082 145% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.135416666667 0.125424944231 108% => OK
Participles: 0.0583333333333 0.0416121511921 140% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.66255175259 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.01875 0.026700313972 70% => OK
Particles: 0.00208333333333 0.001811407834 115% => OK
Determiners: 0.139583333333 0.113004496875 124% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0333333333333 0.0255425247493 131% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0166666666667 0.0127820249294 130% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2586.0 2731.13054187 95% => OK
No of words: 438.0 446.07635468 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.90410958904 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.34703196347 0.378187486979 92% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.278538812785 0.287650121315 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.212328767123 0.208842608468 102% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.116438356164 0.135150697306 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66255175259 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 207.018472906 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452054794521 0.469332199767 96% => OK
Word variations: 49.5729294168 52.1807786196 95% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.039408867 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0434782609 23.2022227129 82% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.7524019942 57.7814097925 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.434782609 141.986410481 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0434782609 23.2022227129 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.739130434783 0.724660767414 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 46.8973595394 51.9672348444 90% => OK
Elegance: 1.6 1.8405768891 87% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.488418729981 0.441005458295 111% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.136119299903 0.135418324435 101% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0977680562969 0.0829849096947 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.61822055083 0.58762219726 105% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.114478818522 0.147661913831 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.237379452621 0.193483328276 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0969129425245 0.0970749176394 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.556794567054 0.42659136922 131% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.03512435245 0.0774707102158 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.387255042936 0.312017818177 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0546402456141 0.0698173142475 78% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.33743842365 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 10.0 6.46551724138 155% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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