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 this recommendation, the director suggests that employees require all of our employees to take the Easy Read Course. However, it leaves many questions to be answered before directly jumping to the conclusion.
He takes one graduate for an example that he was able to read a 500-page report in only two hours after the course. Nevertheless, what is the content of the report? Is it full of pictures and tables or it’s a high-school level term paper? Even though the report is a graduated essay level, we still have to ask does he fully comprehend and grasp the idea of the whole article. Otherwise, if he only scanned through the pages before claiming he read the report, this case can never be considered a solid proof of the core value of the course.
Another graduate was promoted from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in a year. However, what’s the construction and the size of the company? Nowadays, there are more and more small-sized startups popping up in the market, so it’s easy to shot from an employee to a high position such as vice president. On the other hand, even though the course do help boost the reading speed of two graduates. Is it possible that both of them are the special cases that they’re so intelligent that they can know the difficult tips in reading and make a good use of them as soon as possible? We’re afraid that most graduates cannot attain the same result after they spend the same time as them in the course.
He also recommends that all of the employees should require to take the course. Is the course worth everyone taking and useful as their position? Take a plumber for an example, it’s not really helpful for him to take the reading course compared with a training program for fixing. A course has to be taken by those who really in need like managers who have to save their time and know the whole concept and key points from the article.
Whether taking a course or not still needs to answer at least above-mentioned questions to evaluate the efficiency and the necessity.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
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: 18 15
No. of Words: 366 350
No. of Characters: 1645 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.374 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.495 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.422 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.724 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.309 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.139 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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In this recommendation, the director sug...
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... directly jumping to the conclusion. He takes one graduate for an example tha...
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...of of the core value of the course. Another graduate was promoted from an as...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the same time as them in the course. He also recommends that all of the emplo...
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Message: Simply use 'all the'.
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... course. He also recommends that all of the employees should require to take the co...
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...ept and key points from the article. Whether taking a course or not still nee...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, nevertheless, really, so, still, as to, at least, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1722.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 364.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73076923077 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62020517978 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541208791209 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.2243216478 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.6666666667 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2222222222 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27777777778 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225326435444 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0672273956436 0.0743258471296 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0523457935751 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120506242117 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0567480348301 0.0628817314937 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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