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.
One of the various methods in which people get exposed to knowledge is through education. I cannot agree less with the common saying that education is key. The recommendation noted that a nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. this might be agreeable to an extent but otherwise, I disagree.
Firstly, it is agreeable that generalizing the curriculum would help ensure at least the average child is knowledgeable on his basic rules and right as a citizen. For instance, the basic curriculum would definitely contain major basic codes and conducts with the rights the citizen has thereby ensuring that everyone is knowledgeable. this instance would make the recommendation good.
this recommendation would also ensure that students receive equal levels of education which would make it easier for college faculty to select materials needed for the session. For example, there would be no need for lecturers to assume students are familiar with a topic that in actual sense, they do not know because they attended a substandard school. this example above makes the author's recommendation valid.
However, if this recommendation were accepted, the key purpose of education would be impaired. this is because the teachers would now be limited as to what they teach and then students would not be able to get other information outside the curriculum. I can also readily see certain educational programs being canceled so as not to go out of the scope of what is accepted at the national level.
Moreover, even if this recommendation is accepted, on whose decisions would the contents of the curriculum be based? is it on politicians who have little or no interest in their nation and can readily change the curriculum based on what they feel is right and not what is needed? or on the legislatives who have little or no knowledge about the entire curriculum needed for education.
In addition, having a generalized curriculum would bring about a stop to certain language subjects included at different states to promote their laguage. For instance, some schools in the south that teach southern languages and its core values would be prevented as a result so as not to go out of scope.
In conclusion, it is agreeable that this recommendation would ensure that the average citizen knows its right and core values however, it is a major impairment to education.
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- 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 g 16
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college 60
Comments
e-rater score report
Out of topics
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 400 350
No. of Characters: 1985 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.472 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.962 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.813 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.434 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.374 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.088 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 295, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...al curriculum until they enter college. this might be agreeable to an extent but oth...
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Line 2, column 335, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...nsuring that everyone is knowledgeable. this instance would make the recommendation ...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...ce would make the recommendation good. this recommendation would also ensure that s...
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Line 3, column 355, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...use they attended a substandard school. this example above makes the authors recomme...
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Line 3, column 384, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...rd school. this example above makes the authors recommendation valid. However, if this...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...purpose of education would be impaired. this is because the teachers would now be li...
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Line 5, column 117, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Is
...he contents of the curriculum be based? is it on politicians who have little or no...
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Line 5, column 280, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
...y feel is right and not what is needed? or on the legislatives who have little or ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, so, then, as to, at least, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2028.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 400.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88849441751 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 647.1 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.364141332 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.736842105 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0526315789 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.52631578947 5.70786347227 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0562819764005 0.218282227539 26% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0227951517687 0.0743258471296 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0238968525915 0.0701772020484 34% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0325917663692 0.128457276422 25% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0206469319605 0.0628817314937 33% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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