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 recommendation, the personnel director believes that forcing all of the employees to take the easy read Speed-reading course will be beneficial. By mentioning the graduate’s outstanding performance and reasonable price, the director purports that making such course mandatory will lead to improving employees’ productivity. Although it may seem convincing at first, the lack of evidence leads me to question the validity of the argument.
To begin with, the director needs to provide more sound evidence on the graduates’ productivity. he blindly assumes that the graduates’ abil...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 397 350
No. of Characters: 2072 1500
No. of Different Words: 173 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.464 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.219 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.897 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.467 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.628 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.733 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.381 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.624 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.167 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 69, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ersonnel director believes that forcing all of the employees to take the easy read Speed-r...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 103, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
...ce on the graduates' productivity. he blindly assumes that the graduates&apos...
^^
Line 5, column 524, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: They
...he who graduates of the reading course. they might be just two of all who showed the...
^^^^
Line 9, column 146, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
... of the easy read Speed-reading course. he contends that because the course includ...
^^
Line 9, column 293, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...tion, the price of the course is small. however, it is possible that the three-week sem...
^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 122, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...en it comes to the benefit of requiring all of the employees to take the reading course. T...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 274, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
... to take the course will be beneficial. however, it is possible that making everyone to...
^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 479, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...me-consuming and not productive enough. if their reluctance goes on, then the over...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, lastly, may, nevertheless, second, so, then, therefore, in brief, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2197.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 397.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.53400503778 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.29298632284 2.78398813304 118% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.465994962217 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 675.9 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.9517282426 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.619047619 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9047619048 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
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: 0.213731733897 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0719875299402 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0701642082459 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128595348535 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615738309814 0.0628817314937 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.79 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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