TOEFL integrated writing: work a four-day week
The reading and the listening are both about the idea of four-day workweek. The author suggests three main benefits of working four day in a week. The professor from the listening passage disagrees with the author and he casts doubt on these three points made by the author.
First of all, according to the author four-day workweek would increase companies profits since employees would have more time to be relaxed and therefore, they would be more productive. On the other hand, the professor does not agree with the author. He mentions that if the companies apply this less working time program, they would be faced with new costs. He explains his point by mentioning that since hiring more people even for less hours is a costly process, additionally these new workers would also need health benefits and training and overall all of the process comes with new expenses. The professor also adds that there will be more office space needed.
Secondly, the writing mentions that unemployment rates would be reduced, since the companies would hire more people. The lecturer, on the contrary, refuses, this by saying that with a high possibility the companies would follow different directions than hiring new workers. He gives examples of this opinion by stating that the companies would make their employees work overtime, therefore the hiring rates would remain the same.
Finally, the writer points out that workers would spend more time with their loved ones. It is noted that the workers would have more leisure time within this four day a week working program. The professor, however, casts doubt on this claim made by the author. He mentions that having more free time for workers would result in decreasing job stability and might affect negatively to the workers ambition to advancing their careers. Moreover, the professor continues by mentioning that if there would be an economic crisis these people who work less hours would be the most affected ones.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 148, 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.
...benefits of working four day in a week. The professor from the listening passage di...
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Line 3, column 435, Rule ID: LESS_DOLLARSMINUTESHOURS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer hours'?
Suggestion: fewer hours
... that since hiring more people even for less hours is a costly process, additionally these...
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Line 3, column 435, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun hours is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... that since hiring more people even for less hours is a costly process, additionally...
^^^^
Line 3, column 555, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ealth benefits and training and overall all of the process comes with new expenses. The pr...
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Line 7, column 390, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'workers'' or 'worker's'?
Suggestion: workers'; worker's
...lity and might affect negatively to the workers ambition to advancing their careers. Mo...
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Line 7, column 547, Rule ID: LESS_DOLLARSMINUTESHOURS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer hours'?
Suggestion: fewer hours
...n economic crisis these people who work less hours would be the most affected ones.
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Line 7, column 547, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun hours is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...n economic crisis these people who work less hours would be the most affected ones. ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 5.04856512141 357% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1651.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 325.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35441119412 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501538461538 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 486.9 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3721518166 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.1875 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3125 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.875 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.129126562769 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0633514333029 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0993138303501 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100884740949 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0670455393084 0.0443174109184 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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