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 the editorial, the personal director of Acme made a prequisite to take Easy Read Speed-Reading Course to augment their reading skill in less time consumption. They attribute Easy Read Speed-Readingcourse for volubility speaking and think that it will save their time which will ameliorate the productivity. However, their conclusion can be justified by answering some questions which are given below:
First of all, is their any mention that employees of the company can't read fast? It can be happened that, the boy in the passage has the skill to read a passage in a short time. They didn't show the work performance of the employees before and after the course. For this reason, It is incongruous to evaluate this.
Secondly, do they say that their course make employee's speaking fluently? In other words, do the employees of the Acme company read with correct prounciation and save time? Employees may be read at a great speed but it can be happened that they does their work incorrectly. Because of this, they can't understand overtly and to resolve these things they will spend surpass amount of time.
Third but not the least, is there any mention that their lackings of the productivity is because of consumming time very much in reading? Reagardless the speed of reading, it can be happened that their is not enough manpower or their is some problem with their machines etc. Their shortcomings are not described and found out in the editorial.
In brief, I think there is some falw in the conclusion of the passage and to evaluate this the opponent of the argument have to answer the above questions clearly and properly.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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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: 14 15
No. of Words: 278 350
No. of Characters: 1330 1500
No. of Different Words: 140 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.083 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.784 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.722 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 79 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 68 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.18 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.594 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.045 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 404, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ng some questions which are given below: First of all, is their any mention that ...
^^^
Line 2, column 66, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...y mention that employees of the company cant read fast? It can be happened that, the...
^^^^
Line 2, column 184, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...to read a passage in a short time. They didnt show the work performance of the employ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 246, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'do'
Suggestion: do
... speed but it can be happened that they does their work incorrectly. Because of this...
^^^^
Line 3, column 297, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...work incorrectly. Because of this, they cant understand overtly and to resolve these...
^^^^
Line 4, column 197, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
...eed of reading, it can be happened that their is not enough manpower or their is some...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 229, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
...ed that their is not enough manpower or their is some problem with their machines etc...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, i think, in brief, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1358.0 2260.96107784 60% => OK
No of words: 277.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90252707581 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77727863148 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 204.123752495 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501805054152 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 705.55239521 58% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.1108445737 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.0 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7857142857 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.57142857143 5.70786347227 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.505249642015 0.218282227539 231% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.174556277494 0.0743258471296 235% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.208849578659 0.0701772020484 298% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.270254650218 0.128457276422 210% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.248839848085 0.0628817314937 396% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.3799401198 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 98.500998004 54% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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