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 $500 per employee as— a small price to pay when you consider the benefits. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, to improve overall productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
The writer of the argument concludes that Acma publishing company would gain more profits if they make their staff take the Essay Read Speed-Reading courses because a large number of companies have claimed that these courses have played a significant role in promoting their productivity. The writer's recommendation cannot be accepted as it is in that it rests on a number of premises all of which can be challenges in one way or another.
The first problem with the argument is that the writer concludes that, to reach better achievements, taking Speed-Reading courses is necessary for Acme's staff because it makes them able to read faster and consequently they can earn a large amount of data in a specific time. However, there is no evidence to prove that the number of pages read definitely corresponds to the amount of getting information. In effect, the amount of understanding per work-hour is more effective than the number of pages that are read in a period of time. It is highly possible that a careless reader succeeds to read a remarkable amount of essay without reaching any significant result for both the individual and the company, because he may not comprehend the content of the read context. So faster readers may not enhance the company's productivity.
The second problem with the statement is that the writer assumes that Acme would not suffer from any financial pressure to pay for the referred courses because it cost only 500$ per employee to participate in the Speed-Read programs. However, there is not any clear assertion about the overall expenditures for taking the courses for all of the staff. It is probable that the company has 500 employees and it consequently costs a large amount of money to have all of the staff participate in the referred courses. Hence, the number of staff contributed to this program should be clear.
The third problem with the argument is that the writer's conclusion is based on the positive result, concerning two mentioned cases in the statement, however, the more samples experience the courses the more reliable conclusion can be taken. In addition, although one of the graduated employees from the Speed-Reading courses can read 500-page report in only two hours, there is no concrete evidence to prove that the reading speed of the employee has gained any significant achievement for the company. Therefore, passing the speed-Reading courses may not guarantee taking place of the following advancements in Acma.
In the final analysis, the writer's recommendation can be neither reliable nor correct because, as it was shown in the paragraphs above, it depends on a number of assumptions each of them is questionable. The recommendation can only be accepted it the weaknesses already referred to are all removed. Speed-Read courses might be beneficial for Acme, but it cannot necessarily lead to increasing its 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: 17 15
No. of Words: 474 350
No. of Characters: 2382 1500
No. of Different Words: 209 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.666 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.025 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.911 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 175 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 140 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 95 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.882 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.861 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.765 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.36 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.582 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.13 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 166, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...ssay Read Speed-Reading courses because a large number of companies have claimed that these cou...
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Line 1, column 193, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rses because a large number of companies have claimed that these courses have pla...
^^^
Line 1, column 296, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...le in promoting their productivity. The writers recommendation cannot be accepted as it...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... be challenges in one way or another. The first problem with the argument is that...
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Line 3, column 521, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... the number of pages that are read in a period of time. It is highly possible that a careless ...
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Line 5, column 174, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$500'.
Suggestion: $500
...e referred courses because it cost only 500$ per employee to participate in the Spee...
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Line 5, column 335, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...expenditures for taking the courses for all of the staff. It is probable that the company ...
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Line 5, column 461, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...y costs a large amount of money to have all of the staff participate in the referred cours...
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Line 7, column 49, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...d problem with the argument is that the writers conclusion is based on the positive res...
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Line 9, column 28, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...s in Acma. In the final analysis, the writers recommendation can be neither reliable ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, third, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2427.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 474.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12025316456 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66599839874 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96686286781 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451476793249 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 756.9 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.1256113058 57.8364921388 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.764705882 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8823529412 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.41176470588 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275323045606 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.091808140898 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0805462503579 0.0701772020484 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16815854381 0.128457276422 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0595211397123 0.0628817314937 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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