A perspnnel director of Acme Publishing Company suggests that all employees in this company should take a speed reading course offered by Easy Read so as to enhance their productivity. His claim is supported by stating that many other companies also doing the same plan and introducing the outstanding performance of graduates from the course. Ostensibly his recommendation and evidences are justifiable, at the first glance. However, there's assumptions and flaws in his statements and hence this proposal could not be fully justified,
The author mentions that many other companies are now requiring their workers to attend Easy Read courses and their productivity are greatly improved. This example would be cogent only if the other companies are doing the same kind of business and employees are working on same nature of tasks as Acme does. If another publishing company claims that sending their article calibrator to Easy Read course and their reading pace is greatly increased and hence they finish the calibrating tasks faster than before, Acme should also try to let their calibrating staffs to join speed reading course so as to achieve the same efficiency as other graduates do.
Given the reading rate and the fast promotion in job position of two of the graduates from Easy Read, the author derives that the faster you read the more information you can absorb in a day. This might be true for workers who are dealing with tremendous literature a day, such as report writers and reviewers. But when it comes to accountants or financial secretaries, they are required to do lots of calculations with extra care a day and speed reading skills are not significant to them. Hence, reading fast does not guarantee a better career in every job role.
Lastly, the author backs his suggestion by saying that the $500 tuition of Easy Read course would not burden the company and indeed brings more benefits. This is just a subjective assumption made by the author, as being a personnel director, he may not clearly realise the financial status and affordability of the company. If the company hires only 10 employees in total, finding all staffs to take the Easy Read course would cost only $5000; while if there are 1000 staffs in total, the costs would be 100 times more, which is not a small amount. It is also worth to notice that the course takers are required to attend a 3-week seminar in Spruse City, which means employees have to be out of office for 3 weeks if they attend the class. Missing one or more staff from the daily working routine, the company may have to hire extra worker to temporarily take up this vacancy, or have to pay for extra working hours of other staffs, or even drag its working schedule. The course included lifelong subscription and newsletter may not be able to compensate this incalculated loss.
Although reading fast could bring some benefits to both employee and employer to some extent, more study and research should be carried out first before funding this proposal.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 150, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...eed reading course offered by Easy Read so as to enhance their productivity. His claim i...
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Line 1, column 437, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: there's
...tifiable, at the first glance. However, theres assumptions and flaws in his statements...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 594, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ing staffs to join speed reading course so as to achieve the same efficiency as other gr...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, lastly, may, so, while, as to, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2511.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 510.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92352941176 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58315380557 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 204.123752495 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503921568627 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 771.3 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.0573920869 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.705882353 119.503703932 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0 23.324526521 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.405927042481 0.218282227539 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119317566431 0.0743258471296 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.088375691798 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211982891319 0.128457276422 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0903878704509 0.0628817314937 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.3799401198 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.85 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 150, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...eed reading course offered by Easy Read so as to enhance their productivity. His claim i...
^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 437, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: there's
...tifiable, at the first glance. However, theres assumptions and flaws in his statements...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 594, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ing staffs to join speed reading course so as to achieve the same efficiency as other gr...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, lastly, may, so, while, as to, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2511.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 510.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92352941176 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58315380557 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 204.123752495 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503921568627 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 771.3 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.0573920869 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.705882353 119.503703932 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0 23.324526521 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.405927042481 0.218282227539 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119317566431 0.0743258471296 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.088375691798 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211982891319 0.128457276422 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0903878704509 0.0628817314937 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.3799401198 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.85 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.