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 argument, the author concludes that all the employees should be required to take the easy read course since it could improve the productivity dramatically. In order to reinforce the statement, the author points out the comments of other companies and the examples of course’s graduates. however, more concrete information should be provided to better evaluate the conclusion.
The author indicates that various companies hold positive attitudes towards the easy read speed-reading course, assuming that the course does have a myriad benefits. however, the assumption does not hold water owing to lack of evidence concerning the validity of other companies’ comments. In all likelihood, some companies may take the bribe to exaggerate the course’s advantages while none of their employees have actually experienced the course by themselves, not to mention benefiting dramatically from it. Besides, we could not exclude the possibility that it’s those companies that set up the easy read speed-reading course together, which could explain their praise since they are advertising for their own project.
Based on the fact that the reading speed of one graduate and the promotion of another, the author unfairly implicates that the achievements of two graduates have everything to do with the increment of productivity due to the course. Nonetheless, alternative explanations could rival the proposed explanation. Chances are high that the first graduate had already mastered the ability to read at such a speed before he participated in the course, which means that there is no correlation between his remarkable productivity with the course. As for the second graduate, it’s probable that his promotion is contributed from the hidden rule in the company instead of the rise of efficiency. Therefore, to reinforce the implication, the author is supposed to make a thorough and deep study on the initial ability of the first graduate and the real approach to promotion of the second.
Even though the graduates do cultivated higher ability and numerous companies’ assessments are accurate, it’s perfunctory for the author to require all the employees to engage in the easy read course. we are not supposed to ignore the fact that every department in the company has its own duty which calls for totally different capability of workers. Even though some employees such as secretary could hone out the reading skills and thus enhance the efficiency significantly, would it be similarly useful for those people whose jobs have no demand on their reading speed like receptionist? it the author does not afford more detailed testimony about different scenarios of workers, the recommendation is unreliable and cursory to be implemented.
To sum up, the author’s conclusion is quiet unauthenticated and more information is needed to bolster the argument.
Comments
Essay evaluation 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: 13 15
No. of Words: 447 350
No. of Characters: 2363 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.598 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.286 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.914 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 178 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 141 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 110 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 76 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 34.385 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.754 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.382 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.645 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.143 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 300, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...he examples of course's graduates. however, more concrete information should be pr...
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Line 3, column 167, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...the course does have a myriad benefits. however, the assumption does not hold water owi...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 212, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: We
...yees to engage in the easy read course. we are not supposed to ignore the fact tha...
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Line 7, column 602, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... their reading speed like receptionist? it the author does not afford more detaile...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, besides, but, first, however, if, may, nonetheless, second, similarly, so, then, therefore, thus, while, as for, of course, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2456.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 447.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.49440715884 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12923176632 2.78398813304 112% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507829977629 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 779.4 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4937694866 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.470588235 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2941176471 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.94117647059 5.70786347227 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.282750994391 0.218282227539 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0886404857917 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0795235832445 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148203470314 0.128457276422 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0996085830394 0.0628817314937 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 14.3799401198 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.3550499002 76% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.5979740519 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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