"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.
The director recommends president of a publishing company to take a speed-reading course arguing that the course will increase productivity of the employees. The reasons argument provides are unsubstantiated.
Firstly, the recommender mentions that other companies have improved the performance of their employees by having them to take the Easy Read Speed-Reading test. It could be the case that the reading speed of the employees of those companies was terrible earlier and that's why they are able to be quicker in reading after taking the course. However, the director fails to mention the current reading speed of Acme's employees. If the reading speed of Acme's employees is already good enough, Acme might not be able to benefit from the course.
Secondly, the recommender builds upon his argument by giving example of two graduates of the course who according to him, improved in one way or the other. First graduate was able to read 500 pages in two hours. The argument does not mention whether this graduate was able to read with this speed before taking the test as well. If this graduate's reading speed was already quite high, the course high not have any contribution in his reading-speed. Event if the course did improve the graduates reading-speed substantially, it does not imply that the employees of acme can benefit from it. The productivity of employees might be because of their attitude of procrastination than their speed of reading. In the example of second graduate, the journey from assistant manager to vice president doesn't only require reading speedily. Promotion to higher ranks in the job also depend on the interpersonal and managerial skills of the individual as well as their determination and hard-work. Had the argument showed that the promotion of the assistant manager was hampered because of low reading speed, which was sufficiently improved after the course, the argument might have been strengthened.
Thirdly, the course costs $500 per employee. The recommender fails to account for the number of employees in the company. IF the company is huge with thousands of employees, the course would cost the company an arm and a leg.
All in all, the argument is rife with assumptions and therefore stays unsubstantiated and open to debate. The argument could have been strengthened if the arguer could provide specific details supporting his conclusion.
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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: 20 15
No. of Words: 387 350
No. of Characters: 1968 1500
No. of Different Words: 182 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.435 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.085 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.877 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.35 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.966 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.348 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.547 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.134 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 163, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'reasons'' or 'reason's'?
Suggestion: reasons'; reason's
...ease productivity of the employees. The reasons argument provides are unsubstantiated. ...
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Line 5, column 55, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ecommender mentions that other companies have improved the performance of their e...
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Line 5, column 268, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...hose companies was terrible earlier and thats why they are able to be quicker in read...
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Line 9, column 792, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...rom assistant manager to vice president doesnt only require reading speedily. Promotio...
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Line 9, column 1190, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... argument might have been strengthened. Thirdly, the course costs 00 per employe...
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Line 13, column 225, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ould cost the company an arm and a leg. All in all, the argument is rife with as...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2020.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23316062176 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94364821845 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487046632124 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 705.55239521 85% => 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: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9705551548 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.0 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55 5.70786347227 97% => 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 : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.488243587149 0.218282227539 224% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149504735532 0.0743258471296 201% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120587562881 0.0701772020484 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226761409842 0.128457276422 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.154955851396 0.0628817314937 246% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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