"During the past year, workers at Butler Manufacturing reported 30 percent more on-the-job accidents than workers at nearby Panoply Industries, where the work shifts are one hour shorter than ours. A recent government study reports that fatigue and sleep

There are many questions that need to be answered in order to ensure the recommendation would actually be effective. The argument assumes that working conditions in the two plants are the same and does not provide any elucidation on how the shifts are distributed per week and per employee.

Avoiding fatigue and sleep deprivation of employees are certainly important in ensuring a safe and robust working environment. However, merely the length of a working shift does not warrant overloading employees with potentially harmful jobs. The jobs in both plants need to be characterized and their complexity need to be clarified. A less exacting job will have a much less effect on alertness of the employees than a job that needs constant analysing and decision making. Had the argument provided us with more information about the physical and analytical demand levels of the two companies, a better decision could have been made.

Even assuming that employees at both companies, on average, face the same level of difficulty, the working shift lengths alone cannot be a deterministic factor on level of fatigue and sleep deprivation. Distribution of the shifts in each employee's weekly schedule is of great importance. Even slightly longer shifts (in the arguments case, an extra one hour), if they are scattered throughout the week can allow the employee to rejuvenate in-between the working hours to ensure optimal alertness while working. Short, but sequential shifts will enervate the employee and potentially impair his/her alertness. The argument fails to provide detailed information about the shift assignment strategies in the two companies.

And finally, a less intuitive factor is the working motivation of the employees at both companies. If employees are satisfied with their working environment, and are in a friendly and respectful relationship with their co-workers and supervisors, and if they feel adequately compensated for their contributions, then they will feel that they belong to the company and will do their best to ensure fulfilling their responsibilities and they will pay more attention to the quality of their job which will lead to less failures.

The argument fails to provide sufficient evidence that the on-the-job accidents are a direct result of the extra hour working shift at Butler Manufacturing, and thus, its recommendation does not warrant a successful outcome.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 512, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun failures is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...quality of their job which will lead to less failures. The argument fails to pro...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'finally', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.240196078431 0.25644967241 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.161764705882 0.15541462614 104% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0980392156863 0.0836205057962 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0514705882353 0.0520304965353 99% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0343137254902 0.0272364105082 126% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.110294117647 0.125424944231 88% => OK
Participles: 0.046568627451 0.0416121511921 112% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.04940630464 2.79052419416 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0294117647059 0.026700313972 110% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.112745098039 0.113004496875 100% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0245098039216 0.0255425247493 96% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00980392156863 0.0127820249294 77% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2411.0 2731.13054187 88% => OK
No of words: 378.0 446.07635468 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.37830687831 6.12365571057 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.57801047555 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.388888888889 0.378187486979 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.31746031746 0.287650121315 110% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.256613756614 0.208842608468 123% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.18253968254 0.135150697306 135% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04940630464 2.79052419416 109% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 207.018472906 91% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.469332199767 107% => OK
Word variations: 53.7288302981 52.1807786196 103% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.039408867 75% => OK
Sentence length: 25.2 23.2022227129 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.4570633846 57.7814097925 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.733333333 141.986410481 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2 23.2022227129 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.6 0.724660767414 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 56.946031746 51.9672348444 110% => OK
Elegance: 1.60396039604 1.8405768891 87% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.322381653261 0.441005458295 73% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0953451919305 0.135418324435 70% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0335013119666 0.0829849096947 40% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.583336208959 0.58762219726 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.187315154453 0.147661913831 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144252468965 0.193483328276 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0685638907505 0.0970749176394 71% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.357337016754 0.42659136922 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.083451431729 0.0774707102158 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232512567655 0.312017818177 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0503327368023 0.0698173142475 72% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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