In this set of materials, the reading and the listening both are discussing the working four-day week wherein the reading states that companies should offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for 80 percent of their normal pay, and it provides three benefits of support. However, the professor notes that there are still many issues with a shortened workweek, and he challenges each of the author's points.
First, the writer of the reading claims that the companies' profits will increase with a four-day workweek. The professor refutes this point by explaining that shortened workweek will force companies to spend much more money on training new employees, finding more office space, and buying new more computers.
Secondly, the reading states that the unemployment rate will decline with a shortened workweek. However, the lecturer points out that hiring new employees will cost much more money than ask employees to work overtime. Therefore, no additional jobs will be created.
Finally, the author of the reading says that shortened workweek will improve the quality of employees' lives by spending the extra time with their families. The speaker of the lecture opposes this point by mentioning that the free time generated by the reduced work hours presents a lot of risks for the quality of worker's life such as reduction of job stability. Furthermore, it can lose the opportunity of promotion for management positions.
In conclusion, the three points made in the lecture contrast with the reading. The first, second, and third points in the lecture demonstrate that benefits of the four-day workweek are in doubt. As well as, both writer and lecturer hold conflicting views about shortened workweek.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, third, well, in conclusion, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1457.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27898550725 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62287561191 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525362318841 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 420.3 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.9839106995 49.2860985944 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.076923077 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2307692308 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.92307692308 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221551758409 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835248084614 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0650247295315 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128497770418 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0572491742227 0.0443174109184 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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