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, to improve productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the advice and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the advice.
In the recommendation, the personal director insists that Acme Publishing Company should enroll its employees to Easy Read Speed-Reading course which claims to improve the productvity of its members and help achieve promotions. Although the personal director’s interest is for the good of the company, he fails to make a cogent argument with realisitc examples for Acme Publishing to adopt the course. The authors must substantially provide evidence and answer the three questions purported bellow.
First of, how did the author generalize the success of Easy Read Speed Reading course? There seems to be no background or evidence to help us make correlations between the employees of many of these other companies and employees of Acme Publishing Compnay, i.e. the type of employees can vary. Possible impact between these companies and this kind of training might not even help gain the enticed proclivity at Acme. Maybe the employees of Acme publishing company do not have any reading involved in their day to day job, or perhaps it involves very short amount making it reddundant for them to learn to read fast. If this is true, the authors argument insisting the course is seriously dampned.
Second of all, how did the author conclude that faster reading will increase productivity without substantial evidence or a systematic study? let's say the author’s touted speed reading course did help employees to read fast and absorb quickly, but how much of it did they retain and could recollect the next day? Perhaps because of the hastiness involved in absorbing information, the employees may not effectively learn anything but all the information will just be transitive. Moreover, there is no strict evidence that employees who read quickly will continue working more and harder and not start to remiss and extend their breaks by indulging in sports activities thinking they can finish work soon, this might infact be completely detrimental for Acme Publishing. If all this turns out to be true, the authors arguemnt holds no water.
Finally, even if Acme decides to enroll its employees to Easy Read, how many of them must be enrolled? Should the entire company be enrolled? if Acme publishing is a cosmopolitan company with thosands of employees, 500$ per employee is now not a small number anymore. Has the author considered this estimation before suggesting the enrolement? The author's lack of analysis can cost Acme Publshing a fortune just to train its employees to read faster.
In conclusion, the aguments made by personal director as of now is flawed due to its resilience on several spurious generalizations and unwarranted assumptions. The author must first answer the above questions for the Acme Publishing Company to take his intiative into consideration for further validation.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 451 350
No. of Characters: 2309 1500
No. of Different Words: 235 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.608 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.12 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.779 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 176 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 137 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.056 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.345 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.611 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.327 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.544 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 23, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rted bellow. First of, how did the author generalize the success of Easy Re...
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Line 4, column 641, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...arn to read fast. If this is true, the authors argument insisting the course is seriou...
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Line 7, column 144, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Lets
...tantial evidence or a systematic study? lets say the author's touted speed read...
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Line 7, column 144, Rule ID: LETS_LET[1]
Message: Did you mean 'Let's'?
Suggestion: Let's
...tantial evidence or a systematic study? lets say the author's touted speed read...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
... Should the entire company be enrolled? if Acme publishing is a cosmopolitan compa...
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Line 10, column 217, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$500'.
Suggestion: $500
...tan company with thosands of employees, 500$ per employee is now not a small number ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, may, moreover, second, so, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2382.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 451.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28159645233 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88557398698 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 204.123752495 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525498891353 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 716.4 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2171902367 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.1 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.55 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308103401058 0.218282227539 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0904833357422 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076321512246 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177094138924 0.128457276422 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0712186934907 0.0628817314937 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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