4-Day Workweek
The main topic of both the passage and the lecture is about changing workdays from 5 days, 8 hours a day to 4 days, 10 hours a day. The reading states that although 5-day workweek is popular in the US, some companies have reduced their work days to 4 with an increase in working hours from 8 to 10 and explains three reasons on how it can be beneficial. However, the lecturer opposes these benefits and he thinks that they are not enough for such a dramatic change.
First, the author believes that a day off will lower the commute expenses of employees. However, the lecturer does not totally agree with this opinion. He explains that usually people spend about 15-20 dollars on gas per day for their trip to work, therefore about 850 dollars a year will be saved which he believes it does not justify the reduction in work day.
Second, the reading claims that reducing work days will lower the operating costs of businesses. On the other hand, the lecturer contends that the article is misguided since it would cost the company loses its profit by about 20%. He explains that the 2 hours raise on working time will not help companies to compensate the day off since the additional 2 hours will be at evening when most potential consumers have gone home so they will not do any business.
Third, the reading avers that employees will be able to spend more time with their families as a result of a day off. In contrast, the lecture opposes this point by saying that not only a day off will not provide employees with extra hours to spend with their families but also it may cause them some problems. For example, employees with young children should look for a daycare center opens until evening, which is hard to find. Also, employees with older children will not have extra time either, since their children should go to school on the fifth day.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 54, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...thor believes that a day off will lower the commute expenses of employees. However, the lec...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, second, so, therefore, third, for example, in contrast, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 333.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.57357357357 5.08290768461 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.24513389618 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522522522523 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 445.5 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.55342163355 84% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.5176766355 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.153846154 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6153846154 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.84615384615 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251666859495 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0921104923042 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0795909682711 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158937388936 0.162205337803 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0776068860388 0.0443174109184 175% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 71.48 53.8541721854 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.52 12.2367328918 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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