TOEFL Integrated Writing: Four-day work a week.
The passage and the lecture, both are about employees working four days a week. The author of the passage is in favour of the idea and puts forward reasons to support his/her claim. The lecturer, on the other hand, refutes the claim made by the author.
To begin with, the author believes that mandatory policies requiring companies to offer their employees an option of working four days for four-fifths of their normal pay would benefit not only the whole company but also the individual companies and the employees who decided to do so. He/she feels that shortened workweek would increase the efficiency of the workers as they would feel more rested and alert. Furthermore, he/she also believes that hiring more four day employees would not only accomplish the work assigned with better efficiency but also would decrease additional pay costs as the employees have to be paid only 80 per cent of the normal rate which ultimately would result in few overworked and error-prone employees thus increasing company benefits. However, the lecturer opposes the idea. He tries to justify his claim by stating the disadvantages of such a policy. He says that having a four day working employee will result in more expenditure as a lot of money would be spent on their training. Moreover, hiring more employees would require bigger officer spaces and more computers which would automatically result in more expenses. In addition, some companies would try to increase the expectations and workload for the four days employees so as to cover up more work thus resulting in increased stress and lessened relaxation time.
The author adds, when a company has to pay only 80 per cent of the normal pay, they can use the rest of the money to hire more workers which consequently would result in higher employment. In contrast, the lecturer has a different view in which he claims that although more additional jobs may be created, the companies would prefer five-day workers as they give more stability and hence the four-day workers would have fewer chances of promotion and lesser work security.
Finally, the author is of the opinion that the four day work week employees would have more opportunities to improve their quality of life by spending quality time with their family, pursuing private interests or enjoying leisure activities. On the contrary, the lecturer points out that the four-day workers are at a higher risk of losing jobs. These people would then be on the hunt for work, resulting in time and money for spending quality family time.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 183, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...rward reasons to support his/her claim. The lecturer, on the other hand, refutes th...
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Line 2, column 1264, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...nd workload for the four days employees so as to cover up more work thus resulting in in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, thus, as to, in addition, in contrast, on the contrary, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 5.04856512141 357% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2121.0 1373.03311258 154% => OK
No of words: 425.0 270.72406181 157% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99058823529 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55930353848 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 145.348785872 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487058823529 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 648.9 419.366225166 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 89.1448960962 49.2860985944 181% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.5625 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5625 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.25 7.06452816374 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186027836507 0.272083759551 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0819719230988 0.0996497079465 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0926858827963 0.0662205650399 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141242198071 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338941335928 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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