"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 overall productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
According to the recommendation to the personal director, the Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved other companies’ productivity. The director points out that, by fast reading, an employee can absorb more information in a given time and make more benefits. On the contrary, some questions should be asked concerning whether this course can truly help employees, whether it is suitable to our company and whether it is a unique example.
First and foremost, the first question should be asked is whether or how much the speed-reading course can actually improve the productivities of the employees. According to example given by the director, one person can finish reading a 500-pages paper in only two hours. It may be surprising and amazed at the effect of the reading courses at a first glance. But we have to ask that how much this employee remember about the pages and whether he can response to the questions raised in the paper. It is obvious that no one can remember a lot of details in such a little reading time. So, if one can simply finishing reading in a relatively short time but remember nothing, this kind if reading courses is completely useless and may be counterproductive.
In addition, whether the practice of speed-reading can fit the environment is the second question that should be asked. For example, the main jobs of those companies mentioned by the director is to deal with and handle enormous amount of information and words, like searching the information the company need from the Internet in a short time, then the ability of speed-reading is of utmost importance. The fewer time the employee need to tackle with huge amount of information, the more profits those kinds of company can make. However, if our company are not in such a hurry to deal with information and the amount of information we have to deal with is not that numerous, it will be unnecessary requiring employees to take speed-reading courses.
Furthermore, the last question that should be asked is whether the effects shown in the example is only suitable to themselves, that is to say, we cannot gain the same effects by attending the speed-reading courses. It is obvious that we are a unique person and are completely different from people surrounding us. According to the personal director, one can gain a huge improvement in the position by master the ability of speed-reading. By contrast, the reason why the employee in the example get this huge improvement is his own effort. May be because he is a diligent and ambitious person. Thus, the improvement may not suitable to every person who receive this course.
In a nutshell, despite the decent intention of the personal director to help the company to make more profits, some questions should be asked to truly and correctly evaluate the proposal.
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Essay evaluation report
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: 20 15
No. of Words: 472 350
No. of Characters: 2290 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.661 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.852 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.863 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 172 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 135 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.874 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.339 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.537 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.141 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 608, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'finish'
Suggestion: finish
...tle reading time. So, if one can simply finishing reading in a relatively short time but ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 685, Rule ID: ANALYSIS_IF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'of'?
Suggestion: of
...rt time but remember nothing, this kind if reading courses is completely useless a...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, then, thus, for example, in addition, on the contrary, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.9520958084 178% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2358.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 472.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99576271186 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98270173227 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.425847457627 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 734.4 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.4797209978 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.9 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.7 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => 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: 0.248933981263 0.218282227539 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0887227934385 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0749499978298 0.0701772020484 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135626366084 0.128457276422 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0814821032596 0.0628817314937 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.