Essay topics:
The following appeared as a memorandum from the Human Resources director at Dexter
Gorman Instruments, a company that manufactures saxophones.
“On this year’s survey about work habits, our employees tended to strongly agree with the
idea that if they took less time to complete their assigned work, the quality of their work
would suffer. However, we recently conducted an internal study that proves this idea
wrong. Managers across several divisions identified an overtime group: the employees
who worked an average of 48 or more hours per week over the past year instead of the
expected 40 hours per week. We then looked at the number of documented work errors
produced by all of our employees during the past year and found that the overtime group
was responsible for significantly more work errors overall than their fellow employees. On
the basis of these findings, our recommendation to the company president is to require
employees to complete their work during the regular 40-hour work week and allow
overtime only for urgent circumstances.”
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
From the memorandum, the company states that is better their worker finished the task in the regular 40-hour work to avoid inferior quality based on the evidence that majority of mistakes were made by the employees who worked overtime, even though their employee said that not enough time causes the compromised quality. The logic underlying this statement seems reasonable at the first glance but as looking closer, the assertion is seriously flawed.
Firstly, the worker in the survey were strongly agree that not enough work time will compromise the quality of work. The company did investigate in but fail to identify that worker are working overtime is because they might did not have enough time to complete the task, which is the what the employees’ states in the survey. Not allowing the worker to work overtime will only worsen the situation as it is impossible for worker to complete such task in short time, not even mention it cannot even be done in overtime.
Secondly, the company fail to take account in the task difficulty and employee’s skill level. The low-skilled worker who are assigned with high-level task that is not matched with their ability is more likely to produce inferior product and work overtime. Also, there is always some simple and difficult tasks, while the complex work could generate more profit, it also means higher risk of failure. For instance, if a expensive saxophones require customisations with costly raw material, which is more complex and time-constrain. Hence, shortening the work time to 40-hour per week might not improve the working efficiency and quality.
In conclusion, the company fail to examine the real causes behind the inferior quality and wrongly state that shorter working hours could improve current situation. If the company provide the evidence that work allocated to worker were based on their skill-level, the statement will be more convincing.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 311 350
No. of Characters: 1572 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.199 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.055 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.465 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 121 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.917 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.153 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.383 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.596 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 49, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'agreed'.
Suggestion: agreed
... the worker in the survey were strongly agree that not enough work time will compromi...
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Line 5, column 418, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...igher risk of failure. For instance, if a expensive saxophones require customisat...
^
Line 5, column 430, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'saxophone'?
Suggestion: saxophone
...f failure. For instance, if a expensive saxophones require customisations with costly raw ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, look, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, in conclusion, in short
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 55.5748502994 54% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1618.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 311.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20257234727 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59065829991 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527331189711 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 504.9 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.3958593471 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.833333333 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9166666667 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.16666666667 5.70786347227 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153282576108 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0634207701177 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.034100176459 0.0701772020484 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0990344694601 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0222446391306 0.0628817314937 35% => 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: 16.0 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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