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 overall productivity, Acme should require 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.
The recommendation from the personnel director to the president of acme publishing company claims that acme should require all their employees to take the easy read course as many other companies have recently took that initiative and got positive results. before implementing such action, the president of acme must answer certain questions with credibility which is raised from the flawed assumptions.
Firstly, the statement from other companies claim that one of their graduate was able to read a 500 page in two hours and another rose from assistant manager to vice president within a year. how much valid are these information? there is a possibility that these two employees were already skilled enough to reach the position that fast and the course had nothing much to do with them. another reason of such claim could be that these company's are getting promotional percentage for advertising easy read course. if these are the facts, then such action would go in vain.
Secondly, does it make sense to believe the idea that the faster one read, the more information one can absorb in a single workday? fast reading may lead to incomprehensible reading and the productivity of the worker may decline for absorbing so much information within a day. The worker may face fatigue at work place causing detrimental impact for the company.
Finally, how much effective is it to spend 500 dollar for each employ for a 3 week course at a different city which also comes with life long subscription to easy read? would that cover the living costs of the employee? What if the employees would become so skilled and like to ask for a pay raise or switch to another company as they already have life long subscription? would that be economical for the company? there is a big possibility that it would not.
In conclusion, the questions mentioned above must be investigated with reliable evidence before taking any such action. may be there is a different side of the story which would make the president to not take such initiative after investiation.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 345 350
No. of Characters: 1676 1500
No. of Different Words: 179 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.31 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.858 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.674 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 43.125 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.409 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.875 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.424 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.784 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 211, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'taken'.
Suggestion: taken
...e as many other companies have recently took that initiative and got positive result...
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Line 1, column 258, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Before
...at initiative and got positive results. before implementing such action, the president...
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Line 3, column 192, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: How
...anager to vice president within a year. how much valid are these information? there...
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Line 3, column 211, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this information' or 'these informations'?
Suggestion: this information; these informations
...ident within a year. how much valid are these information? there is a possibility that these two ...
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Line 3, column 230, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
.... how much valid are these information? there is a possibility that these two employe...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 387, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Another
...ourse had nothing much to do with them. another reason of such claim could be that thes...
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Line 3, column 444, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... such claim could be that these companys are getting promotional percentage for a...
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Line 3, column 515, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...ntage for advertising easy read course. if these are the facts, then such action w...
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Line 6, column 133, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Fast
...ion one can absorb in a single workday? fast reading may lead to incomprehensible re...
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Line 9, column 48, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'dollar' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'dollars'.
Suggestion: dollars
..., how much effective is it to spend 500 dollar for each employ for a 3 week course at ...
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Line 9, column 170, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Would
...th life long subscription to easy read? would that cover the living costs of the empl...
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Line 9, column 373, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Would
...ey already have life long subscription? would that be economical for the company? the...
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Line 9, column 415, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
...uld that be economical for the company? there is a big possibility that it would not....
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Line 12, column 121, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: May
...evidence before taking any such action. may be there is a different side of the sto...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1723.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 345.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99420289855 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7314807683 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542028985507 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => 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: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.4664455865 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.352941176 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2941176471 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76470588235 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.33842540764 0.218282227539 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0936776783314 0.0743258471296 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.132817909983 0.0701772020484 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185243242791 0.128457276422 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.148964305441 0.0628817314937 237% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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