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 examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In this argument the author urge to consider that the employees can read faster, absorb more words, thereafter, be much more productive if they use the Easy Read Speed Reading course. to support this recommendation he states that the graduates who took this course were able to read the a long reports in significantly lesser time than the one who did not. While some people agree to this , I find this argument unconvincing and not cogent for some reasons.
First, author states that a graduate who took speed reading course were able to read the entire report in 2 hours and hence considered more productive. This claim cannot be accepted as it stands. It is entirely possible to assume that this very graduate was efficient enough in reading the long-reports before he took this speed reading course. Also, it is never mentioned by the author whether the report read by him belongs to his department or from the other, as if it belongs from his workspace than he might already have to pre-required knowledge which would significantly helped him to understand much faster. Author also recommended this course as it helped for the promotion of the employees. Here, correlation does not prove causation. Perhaps this employee got promotion on the basis of his previous performance or how he handled the pressure with the on-going work. While, the brief statement stating that attending this course can make an employee more productive seems to be a robust idea , it deficit between what is states and what is there to be evidence for which is too large to be overlooked. This ultimately cause the a week argument that will count against the author conclusion.
Second, the author speculated that if Acme introduce the speed reading program it will only cost $500 per employee. However, if this course will be taught within the Acme premisis then there will be the overhead cost per employee as well as company will need to provide the space probably a seminar hall with the electricity and drinking water as the basic need. Hence, it will increase the cost per employee that this course promised to deliver. Also, employees have to take a time off from their office schedule that will subsequently decrease efficiency of the work process. Therefore, this assumption is over generalized and author's argument lack compelling reason to convince his proposal.
However, it is true that with the help of increment in the reading speed of the employees, they can be quicker and better in understanding the project reports that most the this work depends upon. But, as state above this course will take some time off from their schedule that will hinder in the work processes which will,consequently, decrease the efficiency of the project and will take more time in it's completion. Hence author is flawed in a way that he failed to substantiate his conclusion with the strong evidence and is teemed with poor reasoning. The careful perusing of the evident provided in the argument reveals that many questions have been left unanswered without which the reader cannot consider it to be consequential.
In conclusion, it is a vague and ambiguous argument. To bolster the author's claim the author, much at very least, provide the concrete evidence, perhaps with the help of a survey participating the upper and lower level employees of Acme, to know whether there is an appropriate need for this course or not.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not exactly. we may say: two samples are not big enough.
argument 2 -- not exactly. we may say: if the company has lot of employees, it is still a big money.
argument 3 -- not exactly. we may say: maybe some employees need the course only, not all of them.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 573 350
No. of Characters: 2778 1500
No. of Different Words: 261 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.893 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.848 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.592 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 140 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.045 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.386 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.682 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.286 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.471 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.072 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 185, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: To
...use the Easy Read Speed Reading course. to support this recommendation he states t...
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Line 1, column 284, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: the; a
... who took this course were able to read the a long reports in significantly lesser ti...
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Line 1, column 389, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...did not. While some people agree to this , I find this argument unconvincing and n...
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Line 3, column 863, Rule ID: ON-GOING[1]
Message: Did you mean 'ongoing'?
Suggestion: ongoing
...or how he handled the pressure with the on-going work. While, the brief statement statin...
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Line 3, column 1002, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ore productive seems to be a robust idea , it deficit between what is states and w...
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Line 3, column 1135, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: the; a
...to be overlooked. This ultimately cause the a week argument that will count against t...
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Line 5, column 327, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... a seminar hall with the electricity and drinking water as the basic need. Hence,...
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Line 7, column 59, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e that with the help of increment in the reading speed of the employees, they can...
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Line 7, column 171, Rule ID: DT_DT[2]
Message: Maybe you need to remove the second determiner so that only 'the' or 'this' is left.
Suggestion: the; this
...rstanding the project reports that most the this work depends upon. But, as state above ...
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Line 7, column 324, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , consequently
... hinder in the work processes which will,consequently, decrease the efficiency of the project...
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Line 7, column 421, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... will take more time in its completion. Hence author is flawed in a way that he fail...
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Line 7, column 443, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n its completion. Hence author is flawed in a way that he failed to substantiate ...
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Line 7, column 688, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... have been left unanswered without which the reader cannot consider it to be cons...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, look, second, so, then, therefore, well, while, in conclusion, as well as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 28.8173652695 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2840.0 2260.96107784 126% => OK
No of words: 572.0 441.139720559 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96503496503 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89045207381 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70500441585 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 204.123752495 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468531468531 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 868.5 705.55239521 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.623962378 57.8364921388 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.47826087 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8695652174 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95652173913 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208408808475 0.218282227539 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0630271570138 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557501342535 0.0701772020484 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123041577104 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0497544705663 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 98.500998004 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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