Integrated WritingIn the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies

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In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option.

The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring more staff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase company benefits.

For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rate. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate.

Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests or enjoying leisure activities.

The article suggest that companies should offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay and provide three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that offering four-day workweek to employees is not reasonable and refutes all three author’s reasons and gives following reasons.

first, the reading claims that the shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and they would make fewer costly errors in their work. However, the professor refute this point by saying that companies has to spend more money on hiring new employees and health benefits is also same as working four or five days. He states that hiring more employee will also need more space and more PC which will increase companies budget and decrease profit.

Second, the article says that if many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate. However, the professor says that working four days will not brings productivity. According to professor, if employees do overtime to complete work will good for companies and it will raise expectation from employees.

Third, the reading says that the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests, or enjoying leisure activities. The professor opposes this point by explaining that by doing this they reduce their quality of work and stability of their work. At the time of downtown, there are the first that will loose job. And companies also prefer to give promotions and managerial post to them who works five days a week and they hire an employee who works five days a week.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 13, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'suggests'.
Suggestion: suggests
The article suggest that companies should offer their emplo...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: First
...reasons and gives following reasons. first, the reading claims that the shortened ...
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Line 5, column 324, Rule ID: DONT_NEEDS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'bring'?
Suggestion: bring
...or says that working four days will not brings productivity. According to professor, i...
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Line 5, column 324, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'bring'
Suggestion: bring
...or says that working four days will not brings productivity. According to professor, i...
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Line 7, column 512, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[4]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
...downtown, there are the first that will loose job. And companies also prefer to give ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, third, thus, as to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => 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: 1698.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 332.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11445783133 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45456610417 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518072289157 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3438307195 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.285714286 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7142857143 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 7.06452816374 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.346681723044 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.138849846669 0.0996497079465 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0835205026861 0.0662205650399 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233034083654 0.162205337803 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0588825408217 0.0443174109184 133% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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