The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.
"Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a 500-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read would cost Acme only $500 per employee—a small price to pay when you consider the benefits. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, to improve productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
The personnel director recommends to the President of the Acme Publishing Company that in order to improve the productivity of the company all of the employees ought to take Easy Read course which has shown some benefit that it may have. Although the premises seem to be tenable and plausible at first glance more scrutiny would shed light on their weakness and it turns out to be untenable, and cannot be accepted as it is in that it rests on a number of premises all of which can be challenged in one way or another.
The personnel director attempts to bridge the speed of the reading and productivity. Although it seems tenable, he does not put forward a quantitative measure which indicates all who read faster is a prolific employee. In other words, the question is whether reading faster causes you to become a prolific employee. Maybe if the company employees read faster, they would not be careful in reading and it leads to some error which in long term it would be inimical to the company.
The second flaw regarding the argument is that the author states that the benefits of such policies are higher than 500$ which is the cost of participating in the mentioned course. Nevertheless, he has not presented any quantitative measure in order to weigh up for the benefit. The benefit which the author has pointed out is a vague term which does not indicate anything till it will be expressed in quantity.
Besides above flaws, the third reason to challenge argument is that the effectiveness of such course is under question. Are there any survey to prove its effectiveness or it is just an advertisement propaganda? Ostensibly, most of such courses are proposed every year and it turns out to be futile most of them. So the veracity of authors claim is not based on a firm reason.
Having scrutinized all the premises, as it was shown in the body paragraphs, a plausible conclusion that can be drawn is that the author’s recommendation which was, all of the employees of the company should be obliged to take part in a Speed-Reading course in order to increase the productivity, seems untenable as there are some questions, having been ignored by the personnel director while the answer of could add to the logic of each premise.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not exactly
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 390 350
No. of Characters: 1818 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.444 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.662 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.708 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 121 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.5 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.329 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.608 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 140, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...improve the productivity of the company all of the employees ought to take Easy Read cours...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 117, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$500'.
Suggestion: $500
...nefits of such policies are higher than 500$ which is the cost of participating in t...
^^^^
Line 5, column 171, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...author's recommendation which was, all of the employees of the company should be obli...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, if, may, nevertheless, regarding, second, so, third, while, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1859.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 390.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76666666667 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81426931344 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.494871794872 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 586.8 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 114.806448904 57.8364921388 199% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.0 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0 23.324526521 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92307692308 5.70786347227 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27633496751 0.218282227539 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0980755904055 0.0743258471296 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125574605629 0.0701772020484 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144621514849 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104072827691 0.0628817314937 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.98 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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.