The following appeared in the editorial section of a corporate newsletter:
“The common notion that workers are generally apathetic about management issues is false, or at least outdated: a recently published survey indicates that 79 percent of the nearly 1,200 workers who responded to survey questionnaires expressed a high level of interest in the topics of corporate restructuring and redesign of benefits programs.”
Discuss how logically convincing you find this argument. In explaining your point of view, be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. Also discuss what, if anything, would make the argument more sound and persuasive, or would help you to better evaluate its conclusion.
The argument claims that a recent survey shows that the most of the workers are highly interested in the management issues. Stated in this way, the statement fails to mention several key factors, on the basis of which it could be evaluated. The argument relies on unstated assumptions and unreliable logic. Hence, the argument is weak and has several flaws.
First, the argument readily assumes that the most of the employees answered the survey questions. This is problem and not substantiated. What if the number of total workers surveyed is over 1,000,000, but only 1,200 people have answered? In this case, the survey is not able to draw its conclusion since the result of the investigation does not stand for a general view of the employees. Moreover, it could infer that still the majority of the workers are not interested in management because they even do not participate the survey about the management. The argument could have been much clearer if the author provided the information that most of the workers asked to enroll in the survey had participated with great interest.
Second, the argument claims that the workers are surely interested in management affairs while they are asked about corporation restructure and redesign of benefit programs. This is again a weak and unsupported claim as the general management and the change of the management are totally different topics. The change of the company's structure and benefit programs would have direct impact on all workers, while general management probably does not have such influence. If the author had explicitly shown directly in the survey that the workers also have interests in the general management of the company, the argument could have been strengthened even further.
In conclusion, the argument is neither persuasive nor well-reasoned for the reasons above. If the statement provided more comprehensive perspectives as mentioned in the essay, it could have considerably been strengthened and not sound more of wishful thinking rather than substantive evidence. Without this information, the argument remains problematic and open to debates.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'hence', 'if', 'moreover', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'well', 'while', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.228260869565 0.25644967241 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.157608695652 0.15541462614 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0869565217391 0.0836205057962 104% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0733695652174 0.0520304965353 141% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0163043478261 0.0272364105082 60% => OK
Prepositions: 0.138586956522 0.125424944231 110% => OK
Participles: 0.0407608695652 0.0416121511921 98% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.8628919548 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0108695652174 0.026700313972 41% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.146739130435 0.113004496875 130% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0163043478261 0.0255425247493 64% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00815217391304 0.0127820249294 64% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2143.0 2731.13054187 78% => OK
No of words: 338.0 446.07635468 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.34023668639 6.12365571057 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.57801047555 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.405325443787 0.378187486979 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.316568047337 0.287650121315 110% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.227810650888 0.208842608468 109% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.150887573964 0.135150697306 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8628919548 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 207.018472906 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.494082840237 0.469332199767 105% => OK
Word variations: 50.9487816695 52.1807786196 98% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.039408867 85% => OK
Sentence length: 19.8823529412 23.2022227129 86% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.6861284181 57.7814097925 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.058823529 141.986410481 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8823529412 23.2022227129 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.764705882353 0.724660767414 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 51.5391576749 51.9672348444 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.64835164835 1.8405768891 90% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.495704747815 0.441005458295 112% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.127796440767 0.135418324435 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0776019275792 0.0829849096947 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.610120108775 0.58762219726 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.154287049132 0.147661913831 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.24772588883 0.193483328276 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.130697561205 0.0970749176394 135% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.581738761117 0.42659136922 136% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.113340656549 0.0774707102158 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.389218751803 0.312017818177 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0922780278294 0.0698173142475 132% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.87684729064 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.82389162562 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 13.0 14.657635468 89% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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