The increase in productivity of any company is due an overall increase in the work efficiency of all employees and not individuals. Just assuming that an increase in any one character because of taking a course will increase the productivity is unjustified. There may be several factors at play and surely office environment would have changed at least a bit since before the course. The company needs to evaluate the difference made by this course and not the difference made by the company overall. Only then can it be confirmed that the course really made a significant difference for the employees and ultimately, for the company.
First, five-hundred-page report may first seem to be impressive, but the argument is deeply flawed. Normally people will assume a multi-hundred-page report are all written on letter-size papers and all words are in size 12 Times New Roman. However, it may not necessarily be true, the report may be written in cell phone size booklets with size 24 fonts. Furthermore, reading fast doesn’t mean comprehension. An 800-word-page report with half thousand pages, 400,000 words in 2 hours, that is 3333 words per minute, 56 words per second. In another word, 4 lines per second, assuming you are a fast reader, you won’t remember what the words 4 lines was above. Thus, we can prove the report is fabricated with false evidence at best, or straight lying, a inside job tricking the company’s board of directors. I would suggest immediate termination of the personnel director and contact our attorneys ASAP.
Second, an assistant manager ascends to the vice president a such a leap with all magnitudes of consideration, an isolated miracle cannot justice the repeatable phenomenon. As the founder of modern logic, David Hume pointed out, an individual incident won’t establish certain causal relationship. Someone got promoted, can’t prove the sole merit of “Easy Read,” especially the time laps is 4-quarters. We can’t isolate the new vice president’s personal achievement from her private strivings or the superior work performance in an managerial position, which is not directly contributing our editorial process.
Third, nothing too obvious when our personnel director inserts her personal assumption as “Obviously:” “the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. In sum, the director's evidence does not warrant his conclusion. To support his recommendation he must first provide evidence that employees with similar reading skills as those that Acme employees possess have benefited significantly from the course (a survey of other publishing companies might be useful for this purpose). To better assess the argument an audience would need to be presented with more information about the extent to which the course would disrupt Acme's operations—a cost benefit analysis.
In illusion, the director assumes without warrant that the benefits of the course will outweigh its costs. While all of Acme's employees take the 3-week course, Acme's productivity would decline. This decline, along with the substantial fee for the course, could conceivably outweigh the course's long-terms benefits. Without a complete cost-benefit analysis it doesn’t make sense to draw a conclusion. The argument given above by the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company favors Easy Read Speed-Reading Course. According to the personnel director, many companies have benefited from their employees taking this course and have shown an increase in productivity. There have been reports of graduates improving the reading speed and also getting promoted to higher ranks, and it is credited to the course since you can grasp more if you read faster. The course costs $500 per employee, including a three-week long seminar and a lifelong subscription of the Easy Read newsletter. This price, according to the personnel director, is not much compared to how beneficial the course proves to be. However, the assumption on which this argument is based is questionable due to which it seems to be lacking in logic.
- Some people believe that studying at university or college is the best route to a successful career, while others believe that it is better to get job straight after school.Discuss both views. 61
- The following appeared as part of an article in a business magazine. "A recent study rating 300 male and female advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep the 72
- The following appeared as part of a campaign to sell advertising time on a local radio station to local businesses The Cumquat Caf began advertising on our local radio station this year and was delighted to see its business increase by 10 percent over las 33
- Most of the people we consider heroic today were, in fact, very ordinary people who happened to be in the right place at the right time. - GRE Issue 20 86
- TOEFL essay: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Sometimes it is better not to tell the truth .Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. 3
Essay evaluation report
samples:
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 31 15
No. of Words: 653 350
No. of Characters: 3359 1500
No. of Different Words: 336 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.055 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.144 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.878 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 255 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 197 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 142 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 92 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.065 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.545 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.452 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.26 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.452 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.116 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 762, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...se evidence at best, or straight lying, a inside job tricking the company's ...
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Line 5, column 375, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
... prove the sole merit of 'Easy Read,' especially the time laps is 4-quarters...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 559, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...ngs or the superior work performance in an managerial position, which is not direc...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, really, second, so, then, third, thus, while, at least
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.9520958084 178% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 55.5748502994 131% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3513.0 2260.96107784 155% => OK
No of words: 648.0 441.139720559 147% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4212962963 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.04537849152 4.56307096286 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12331916388 2.78398813304 112% => OK
Unique words: 342.0 204.123752495 168% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527777777778 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 1082.7 705.55239521 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 19.7664670659 157% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.0359590379 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.322580645 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9032258065 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.32258064516 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.20758483034 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.331061358862 0.218282227539 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.082610463868 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0954289805606 0.0701772020484 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1792806951 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121760754866 0.0628817314937 194% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 179.0 98.500998004 182% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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