Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours.

Submitted by julia0120 on Sun, 02/03/2019 - 10:13

The length and the number of workdays has always been a topic of debate related to labor and employment. Some people believe that the scheme of the five workdays per week is already perfect while others insist that a plan, in which cuts the number to three and expand the work hours per day, will be more favorable. In my opinion, the latter will offer more merits.

First of all, working only for three days a week gives workers a wider range of vacation choice of time. This plan means that people will have four consecutive day weekend, which is considered a proper amount of time for a vacation. Saturday and Sunday are not enough for any travel. Therefore, employees will usually have to wait until holidays for any planned trip, creating traffic jam in airports and on high roads. For example, in Vietnam, at the time of holiday such as the New Year or the Independence day, the newspaper is usually flooded with pictures of cars queuing in a long line on the high way to places like Dalat or Sapa. People complain on the networking sites about long hour wait and exhaustion after vacation. If peopel can arrange any journey on any weekend, this phenomenon will not happen, which consequently will lessen traffic congestion in ways to beloved destinations on holidays. As a result, their vacation experience would also be facilitated.

This scheme is also beneficial to the work productivity. Some people state that eight hour work is already the limit and extension of that duration will only reduce the productivity. This might be valid to some extent. However, these opponents fail to realize that overtime working has now been prevalent in today's work. Most people actually work beyond the nine to five duration and there has been no complaint about their work productivity. In addition, workers will regain more energy after a long weekend, hence be better prepared for the new week. Additionally, long weekend and fewer workdays make going to work seem less tiring and stressful than it is currently. Last year, because of some coincidence, I accidently experienced a month of this kind plan. I feel more energetic after more days of relaxation and work more effectively. Since then, I have always wished this plan would be official in the future

In conclusion, I believe that three long workdays per week offer more advantages than five short workdays. To my view, three work day scheme should be applied so that both employers and employees can enjoy its advantages.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 165, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'weekend' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weekends'.
Suggestion: weekends
...t people will have four consecutive day weekend, which is considered a proper amount of...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 135, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'scheme' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'schemes'.
Suggestion: schemes
...rt workdays. To my view, three work day scheme should be applied so that both employer...
^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, consequently, first, hence, however, if, so, then, therefore, while, for example, i feel, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, first of all, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 43.0788530466 58% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2068.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 423.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88888888889 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56765233242 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531914893617 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 639.9 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8286767118 48.9658058833 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2272727273 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.31818181818 5.45110844103 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26730151265 0.236089414692 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0772970945489 0.076458572812 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0582840179284 0.0737576698707 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171180964119 0.150856017488 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.031755172499 0.0645574589148 49% => 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: 11.2 11.7677419355 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 86.8835125448 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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