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 $500 per employee — a small price to pay when you consider the benefits. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, to improve productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the advice and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the advice.
Personal Director at Acme Publishing Company recommended that Every employee of his company must take Easy read Speed-Reading course because many other companies’ statement about this course about increasing productivity. Director mentioned evidence as one graduate can read 500 page report in 2 hours and another one become vice president. This course has 500$ fees and making it mandatory increase productivity of every employee. Director’s recommendation may has merit though he forget to consider many unaddressed assumption, undefined inconsistencies. So, this suggestion is highly flawed.
In recommendation, Director mentioned that speed reading course increase productivity with an example of one graduate who can read 500-page report in 2 hours. However if this course is work for only one person, how can we become sure about everyone? As person has natural tendencies and characteristics. This graduate might be more productive and speedy in terms of reading. So, his skills improve more than others Even though we can not generalize it for everyone without considering overall result of speed-course students productivity.
There is one more example cited by director is about another graduate that become vice president from assistant manager in one year span. May be course helped him but that doesn’t mean that his progress fully reliable upon this course. Director has to consider work, social skills, leadership skills and experience at others’ place. Without considering achievements of person and gave full credits to speed reading course might leads towards vagueness. As course might increase speed of reading but doesn’t improve social skills which help you promote in your job.
One line invoked by director is more speedy reading increase productivity as it helps in absorbing more ideas in short amount of time. However this is not true in every case. Suppose one person reads daily 1000 pages and remembers 100 pages and another one reads 500 pages daily and remember 200 pages. So, obviously second one has more productivity as it absorb more ideas and understand concept instead of just reading words. So here, president forgets to consider that faster reading, increase productivity of employee.
Director also insisted for every employee about taking course which has cost about 500$ and this might be small amount for director though it does not mean for all employee. If one person is broke and work in company then he does not want to spend any penny in unnecessary things. If company provides money for all of their employees then without considering number of employees director can’t stated that this is a small amount. So, in motive of increasing productivity company may be lost so much revenues.
The argument above is weakens the basis of recommendation given by director. Speed reading course might increase speed of person’s reading but that does not mean increased productivity because of lack of evidence. So, Instead of putting blind trust in recommendation of director’s, company has to consider other points and do research about this course.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$500'.
Suggestion: $500
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Line 1, column 493, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'forgets'.
Suggestion: forgets
... recommendation may has merit though he forget to consider many unaddressed assumption...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ho can read 500-page report in 2 hours. However if this course is work for only one per...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
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Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$500'.
Suggestion: $500
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Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...ing productivity company may be lost so much revenues. The argument above is weak...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, second, so, then, as to, in short
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2659.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 488.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4487704918 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96201130736 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477459016393 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 825.3 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.6709627415 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4814814815 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0740740741 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.2962962963 5.21951772744 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27941999983 0.243740707755 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0815388349603 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0726695296407 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173848396448 0.150359130593 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0591542649659 0.0667264976115 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.03 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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