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 five-hundred-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 costs only $500 per employee - a small price to pay when you consider the benefits to Acme. 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."
The following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. Primarily, the argument is based on the unwarranted assumption that "the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday," rendering the conclusion that the course would benefit all the employees who take the course.
The argument fails to provide any justification that taking the course can improve productivity. Firstly, the argument states the course greatly improved productivity but fails to provide additional information about how does the course improves employees' productivity that benefits the company. Although the argument mentions that a graduate student can able to read a fice-hundred-page report in two hours, it does not mean that the reading ability can improve company sales and business. Moreover, the argument also states that another graduate student got promoted after taking this course. Nevertheless, the reason for this student got promoted might not necessarily be linked to the course; it may be other reasons such as his/her impressive performance. In order to strengthen the argument, more information is needed, such as how the course direct influences company sales and employees' productivity.
Secondly, even if the success of these two students results from the reading course, it does not mean that all employees can also be successful after taking the course. The small amount of success has not enough statistical power to assume all employees can be successful after the course. Additionally, the argument assumes that the faster people can read, the more information people can absorb within a day. However, even if the person can read as much information within one single day, it does not mean that the student can also retain all the information he/she has learned from yesterday.
In conclusion, the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions; it fails to make a convincing argument that the course would greatly benefit all employees and improve productivity.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 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: 312 350
No. of Characters: 1645 1500
No. of Different Words: 135 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.203 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.272 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.819 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 96 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.458 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.538 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.461 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.632 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.229 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 210, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
...ation you can absorb in a single workday,' rendering the conclusion that the cour...
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Line 7, column 238, Rule ID: DOES_NP_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'improve'?
Suggestion: improve
...l information about how does the course improves employees productivity that benefits th...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.6327345309 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 55.5748502994 40% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1717.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 310.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.53870967742 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9538243082 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.458064516129 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 521.1 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => 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: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.2187558102 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.076923077 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8461538462 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.15384615385 5.70786347227 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179154666117 0.218282227539 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0769514250673 0.0743258471296 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0508390589006 0.0701772020484 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11234840068 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468300637821 0.0628817314937 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.15 12.5979740519 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 98.500998004 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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