TOEFL integrated writing: work a four-day week.
The reading and the lecture are both about shortened workweek. However, from their contexts, it can be stated that the lecture brings into question the points in the reading passage. The author of the text claims that mandatory police to stablish the option of a four-day workweek would be beneficial to the companies and employees. The lecturer completely refutes the arguments in the article, hence, arguing that the explanations to support this idea are faulty.
Firstly, it is stated by the lecturer that by adopting the shortened workweek the company will be forced to spend more money since the company should hire more employees to complete to job. This will generate an increase in general company costs like those spent on training and medical insurance. Furthermore, more computers and office spaces will be required, leading to an extra enhancement in costs. This directly contradicts the reading passage that denotes that the shortened workweek will certainly reduce the costs, including cost errors, and also will increase the profit.
Secondly, the lecturer safely assumes that a terrible thing may happen that is that the company could ask or expect the employees to do the same amount of job in only four days. This will turn the job very unpleasant, which could lead to an increase in unemployment. This idea strongly contrasts with the article that mentions that the reduced workweek would diminish the unemployment rates.
Finally, the lecturer believes that the extra time given by this new workweek could impair job stability and diminish the chances that a four-day employee has to get a promotion or which is worst it could increase their chances of losing their jobs. The text, on the other hand, states that this free time may improve employees’ quality of life by them being able to have more leisure and rest time with family.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, as to, in general, 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: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1561.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10130718954 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51274890196 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539215686275 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.6196717344 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.076923077 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5384615385 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.76923076923 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.0458194642241 0.272083759551 17% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0173881992913 0.0996497079465 17% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0342720482397 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0332403608839 0.162205337803 20% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0216916142199 0.0443174109184 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => 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: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, as to, in general, 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: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1561.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10130718954 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51274890196 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539215686275 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.6196717344 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.076923077 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5384615385 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.76923076923 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.0458194642241 0.272083759551 17% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0173881992913 0.0996497079465 17% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0342720482397 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0332403608839 0.162205337803 20% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0216916142199 0.0443174109184 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => 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: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.