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 productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the advice and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the advice.
In the argument topic, the author states what it seems a logical way in order to increase the productivity of the companies’ employee by taking the “Easy Read Speed-Reading course”. Viewing at the benefits of this course, this might be a good way to increase, not only productivity, but the ability of the companies’ employee to grasp and analyze information. However, the argument lacks certain data and evidence in order to support the validity of this course. Therefore, certain questions still remained unanswered and by answering them, it is possible to provide the argument with more cogency and rationality.
First of all, it is intriguing to think that a singly course has the potential to do what was stated in the argument. Nevertheless, the author neglected to provide enough data, ideas and information regarding this course. For instance, what elements of this course would provide enough productivity to support the employees of the companies? Are there enough studies conducted on the efficiency of this course in the provision of productivity and reading comprehension in employees? This two questions are crucial and clearly considered when one starts reading this argument. By avoiding to answer them in the argument, the author didn’t provide enough emphasis behind the importance of the “Easy-Read Speed-Reading course”.
Second of all, are there any data and evidence that correlate the ability to read fast with the ability to absorb information? In fact, according to personal opinion, the faster you read, the slower would be the information processing because the brain wouldn’t have been given enough time to grasp and understand the information provided. It is surprising to consider that a graduate student was able to read and understand a 500 page report in only two hours. Accordingly, could this course provide techniques about how to increase one’s reading speed and simultaneously one’s reading comprehension speed? It is imperative to consider the possibility that this course has the potential to provide significant amount of elements and strategies in order to ensure that a student, for instance, could read a voluminous number of page in a small amount of time.
Finally, according to the argument, a 500$ per employee would be viewed as a small price considering the benefits of this course. However, was the price really too small? In fact, it all depends on the company and the number of employees it has. For example, one company would possess 100 employee, and hence, the “Easy Read Speed-Reading course” would be worth 50000 $. On the other hand, the course for a company with 1000 employees would cost 500000$ which is considerably higher.
In conclusion, the argument clearly presents an interesting view in how to increase the productivity of companies and, of course, of employees-to be. However, by considering the various hidden facets of this argument, we can question the efficiency of this course and even if it was demonstrated to be as efficient as expected, would it be economically possible to provide this course to all employees of a company as well as to all companies worldwide?
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK. the sample is too sample, just two graduates.
argument 2 -- not OK. need to argue:
Clearly, to improve productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course.
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 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: 510 350
No. of Characters: 2561 1500
No. of Different Words: 206 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.752 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.022 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.886 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 198 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 150 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 69 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.182 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.67 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.773 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.531 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.138 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
In the argument topic, the author states...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t with more cogency and rationality. First of all, it is intriguing to think ...
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Line 3, column 50, Rule ID: A_RB_NN[1]
Message: You used an adverb ('singly') instead an adjective, or a noun ('course') instead of another adjective.
... of all, it is intriguing to think that a singly course has the potential to do what was stated...
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Line 3, column 584, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'avoiding answering'.
Suggestion: avoiding answering
...en one starts reading this argument. By avoiding to answer them in the argument, the author didn&a...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...sy-Read Speed-Reading course'. Second of all, are there any data and ev...
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Line 5, column 154, Rule ID: PERSONAL_OPINION_FRIENDSHIP[1]
Message: Use simply 'opinion'.
Suggestion: opinion
...sorb information? In fact, according to personal opinion, the faster you read, the slower would ...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... of page in a small amount of time. Finally, according to the argument, a 50...
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Line 7, column 43, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$500'.
Suggestion: $500
... Finally, according to the argument, a 500$ per employee would be viewed as a small...
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Line 7, column 294, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'employee' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'employees'.
Suggestion: employees
... example, one company would possess 100 employee, and hence, the 'Easy Read Speed-R...
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Line 7, column 377, Rule ID: CURRENCY[2]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$50000'.
Suggestion: $50000
...eed-Reading course' would be worth 50000 $. On the other hand, the course for a co...
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Line 7, column 461, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$500000'.
Suggestion: $500000
... company with 1000 employees would cost 500000$ which is considerably higher. I...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...0000$ which is considerably higher. In conclusion, the argument clearly pres...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, nevertheless, really, regarding, second, so, still, therefore, well, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, of course, as well as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 55.5748502994 142% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2707.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 508.0 441.139720559 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32874015748 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14897348062 2.78398813304 113% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44094488189 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 831.6 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.22255489022 261% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.2860013477 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.045454545 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0909090909 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6818181818 5.70786347227 187% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213931243011 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0759845741951 0.0743258471296 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0609959223841 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140687702567 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.02675508474 0.0628817314937 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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