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, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
According to the personnel director, the Acme company should require all of their employees to take the spead-reading course in order to improve productivity. However, more information regarding the graduates of the cources, the cost, and the employees structure in the company is required in order to evaluate the argument.
To begin with, we need the direct evidence that the course is effective. According to the director, one graduate was able to read a 500-page report in two hours and another graduate got promotion within a year. This two piece of evidence, however, are not able to justify the effectiveness of the course. Maybe the graduate have not understand the report in only two hours despite he infirms he had finished reading. If this is the case, the course might not be able to increase reading spead. Similarly, another graduate get promoted might because his other characteristic such as communication skills or manage skills. If this is the case, the course might not be effective. Therefore, we need to investigate whether graduates of the curriculum have obtained the fast reading ability.
Even if the course is effective, another piece of evidence might affect our analysis on the soundness of the argument is about the cost of the course. Although this course only cost 500 dollors per employee, it is still possible that some another courses with the same effect but cheaper are available. If so, it is not sensible for the company to choose Easy Read. In addition, we also need to know the relative cost of this curriculum. If each employee in this company only product 100 dollors per year, it is unreasonable to let the employees to take the course, since the cost is far more than the value generated by the subordinates.
Granted that the course is effective and cost relative little, we also need more information with regard to the structure of the employment to evaluate the argument. In spite of the effectiveness, the course will not be helpful if most of the employees' work are irrlated with reading. For example, maybe most of the employees in this company are workers who have to manipulate the printing machines. Under such circumstances, they don't have to read in their work place. In other words, the improvement of reading spead will not necessarily boost productivity. Therefore, we need to more information regarding the structure of the employees to find out whether the argument is sound.
In conclusion, it is understandable that the director desire the improvement of produticity. But we still need to examine more evidences mentioned above so as to decide whether Acme would benefit.<br>
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 440 350
No. of Characters: 2147 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.58 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.88 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.763 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 152 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.13 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.167 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.826 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.317 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.514 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 334, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'understood'.
Suggestion: understood
...the course. Maybe the graduate have not understand the report in only two hours despite he...
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Line 7, column 432, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...achines. Under such circumstances, they dont have to read in their work place. In ot...
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Line 9, column 154, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
... examine more evidences mentioned above so as to decide whether Acme would benefit.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, regarding, similarly, so, still, therefore, as to, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in other words, in spite of, to begin with, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2213.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 438.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05251141553 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88947394047 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452054794521 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 708.3 705.55239521 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.7909882137 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.2173913043 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0434782609 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.17391304348 5.70786347227 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26069355065 0.218282227539 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0806449741433 0.0743258471296 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0765226447584 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153442968767 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0689519747175 0.0628817314937 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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