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."
The recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company states that having taken the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course will facilitate the company's output on the basis of 'the more one reads, the more he extracts from it.' He made this recommendation as per the data from the other companies' already-taken course outcome. Before going to the judgment, three questions should be answered in order to validate this recommendation.
First of all, can the companies, which the director mentioned somewhat be related to this company? In other words, Is it possible to make a relation among the companies? The director made a claim that this fast reading course has led to some remarkable outputs for the companies, whose names are not even metioned. It could be possible that those companies are different companies like automobile companies- which is a clear indication that, these companies cannot be related even though they take the same measures to improve productivity. The company could fake those data to flaunt their superfluous hegemony over a certain region. Without further information about the claim, it should be concluded that this scheme would increase productivity for this very Acme company.
Moreover, human brains are not machines though they are compared to them, still it needs sabbatical from daily cacophonies of chores that it is obligated to do so. Will this scheme be the same to all human beings? Or, will taking this scheme be helpful to this company's employees? If yes, then this engenders another question of would the company be able to hire employees, if none are found to be competent already, that would be competent enough to work his or her way through 500-page task per day as per the claim? It is possible that the other amenities such as, a three-week seminar and a lifelong subscription is alluring, but the company should not have a myopic sight rather it should go for a longer vision of what are the germane topics between the companies that already taken this scheme and the Acme company to evaluate this claim made by the personnel director. For instance, an employee can read 500 pages in a day and he has increased the productivity of the company, will he stay in this company if he has been offered a better job? Even if he stays, this tedious, menial and arduous job will make him stultified and enervated in no time for which he or she would have to be replaced or sacked.
Thirdly, this claim has involved all the employees of the company before which the company should assess every person's ability to handle this extra pressure of work incumbent on them. Not everyone is of same capabilities and so, they should be treated in a distinctive way rather forcefully making them take this scheme.
To sum up, this claim needs to be addressed in a more expansive way before concluding it will help the productivity increase, and in real situations, some questions needs to be answered before going to a conclusion; this is, still, a moot point in many ways.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
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: 18 15
No. of Words: 515 350
No. of Characters: 2468 1500
No. of Different Words: 244 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.764 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.792 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.656 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.611 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.863 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.556 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.322 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.531 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.147 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r to validate this recommendation. First of all, can the companies, which t...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tivity for this very Acme company. Moreover, human brains are not machines ...
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Line 9, column 233, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'take'
Suggestion: take
... the same to all human beings? Or, will taking this scheme be helpful to this companys...
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Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...uld have to be replaced or sacked. Thirdly, this claim has involved all the...
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Line 13, column 120, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...e which the company should assess every persons ability to handle this extra pressure o...
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Line 13, column 261, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a distinctive way" with adverb for "distinctive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...bilities and so, they should be treated in a distinctive way rather forcefully making them take this...
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Line 17, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ully making them take this scheme. To sum up, this claim needs to be addres...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, moreover, so, still, then, third, thirdly, for instance, such as, first of all, in other words, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 58.0 28.8173652695 201% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2540.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 515.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93203883495 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.763781212 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71369626561 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 204.123752495 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495145631068 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 792.0 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.2114052976 57.8364921388 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.684210526 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1052631579 23.324526521 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36842105263 5.70786347227 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.212471762187 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0768621100016 0.0743258471296 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0917724865694 0.0701772020484 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136784083371 0.128457276422 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.116723913976 0.0628817314937 186% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => 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: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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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