Company X has just switched to a 4-day workweek, mandating that employees work 10 hours per day from Monday to Thursday instead of 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday. Although the policy is new, Company X claims that the policy will help to increase profits by shutting down offices on Fridays and to boost employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from work each week.
In this argument, the author claims that the companies profits, as well as the employee's morale, will be boosted if its new policy is applied. To bolster his standing, the author cites some pieces of evidence. Although the argument seems logical at first glance, it may provide with some unwarranted assumptions that need to be justified.
Firstly, the argument based on the reference that assumes reducing the employee's span of working day per week will enhance the profits. However, it not necessarily true that if we increase the working hour per day, it will certainly augment the companies profit. Since long time work may appear tiring and troublesome for the few employees. The author did not provide any information regarding the demand of the occupants. For example, how many staff want the workday shift? The decision had taken based on what percentage of the employee of Company X. So, it seems that there is an urge of knowing the answer to these questions. Without these, the argument may not be blindly believed.
Secondly, Company X claims with their new policy employee morale will be increased. However, this argument may be fallacious due to the following reasons. Although there is an increase in holiday, it hinders the regular life of an employee. For instance, if they had another plan on that hour after the closing of the office. It may be the quality time either with their family or any individuals.
Finally, shutting down on office on Fridays may decrease the profit because there is no statement about the shipment day of Company X. The delivery day of the products can be Friday also as nothing mentioned in the argument. As a result, closing office on that day will make disappoint the clients that also obstruct well being of the company.
In conclusion, the number of unwarranted assumptions, in the previous sections, questions about the validity of the argument. Unless they are properly addressed with citing some veritable proof, the argument will still be fallacious.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 334 350
No. of Characters: 1630 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.275 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.88 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.514 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 128 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.579 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.336 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.895 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.295 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.518 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.049 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 80, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
...t the companies profits, as well as the employees morale, will be boosted if its new poli...
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Line 7, column 345, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lso obstruct well being of the company. In conclusion, the number of unwarranted...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 11.1786427146 18% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1684.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 334.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04191616766 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63894600169 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.550898203593 0.468620217663 118% => OK
syllable_count: 511.2 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.8473053892 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.6445694888 57.8364921388 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.1904761905 119.503703932 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.9047619048 23.324526521 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.61904761905 5.70786347227 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2539443002 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0709534477059 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.088773580622 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130703898802 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0698690298612 0.0628817314937 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 48.3550499002 134% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 12.197005988 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.1389221557 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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