Integrated Writing
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 reading passage and the lecture both discuss about employees in the united states who choose to work four days a week instead five days. The article listed three benefits regarding this policy, nevertheless, the lecturer criticizes each argument made in the passage.
Firstly, the reading passage states that working four days a week would augment company profits , also it allows companies to hire more workers without costing money because 4 days a week workers are getting paid only 80 percent of the their normal salaries , However, the professor refutes this arguments with saying that the companies will spend more money if they add new workers because companies have to pay health benefit medical for these workers , moreover they will be obliged to have more offices as well as more computers, therefore , companies will face additional costs.
Secondly, the reading passage claims that working four days a week would be beneficial for the country because companies will hire more employees, so the unemployment rate will decrease, on the other hand, the lecturer contradicts this idea, he assumes that hiring more works is costly, instead, the companies can ask their employees to work more, as a result, four days a week workers would work five days which is unpleasant.
Finally, the reading passage points out that employees would have a good quality of life after opting for this policy, whereas the professor challenges this argument, he contends that this policy would deplete their ability of work as well as their quality of life , furthermore it could harm their chances to advance on their career and they pass over for promotions because companies prefer to have five days worker in management position.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, whereas, as a result, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1452.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 280.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18571428571 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46961217661 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542857142857 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 438.3 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => 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: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 5.0 13.0662251656 38% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 56.0 21.2450331126 264% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 180.121736612 49.2860985944 365% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 290.4 110.228320801 263% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 56.0 21.698381199 258% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 36.4 7.06452816374 515% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 4.19205298013 286% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.318556045574 0.272083759551 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.188376393852 0.0996497079465 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113408656955 0.0662205650399 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213953698981 0.162205337803 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0817532024626 0.0443174109184 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 31.0 13.3589403974 232% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 14.64 53.8541721854 27% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 25.1 11.0289183223 228% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 13.71 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.36 8.42419426049 123% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 10.7273730684 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 24.4 10.498013245 232% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 31.0 11.2008830022 277% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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