Both the passage and the lecture are about offering employees the choice to work 4 days a week instead of 5. The passage states that this could benefit the economy, companies and individuals, whereas the lecturer casts doubt on the main pointsmade in the passage by the following reasons.
First of all, in the passage, the authors begins by stating that since a four-day employee would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate, the company can hire more staff. Therefore, the shortened workweek would leave the company with more rested and alert employees, without causing extra costs. However, the lecturer disputes this point by saying that the company will eventually be forced to spend more money, because new workers require costly training, medical benefits, office space and perhaps computers.
Secondly, according to the passage, offering this option to employees would decrease unemployment rates by shifting the workload to new workers. Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this by arguing that companies have many options other than hiring new people, such as asking current workers to work over time or raising their expectation to receive a 5-day job in 4 days.
Finally, the passage claims that this option would improve individuals' quality of life by providing them with more time to spend with their families or persue private interests. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that the risk accomponing this option would actually contribute to reducing quality of life by decreasing job stability. Moreover, this could harm the chances of ever advancing in their job or getting a promotion based on the fact that employers rather have workers who supervise the job during the whole week.
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Final score: 25 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 12
No. of Words: 276 250
No. of Characters: 1400 1200
No. of Different Words: 159 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.076 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.072 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.442 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.02 7.5
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Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.403 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.671 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.126 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4