The passage and the lecture are about employees in the United States that want to work four days a week instead of 5 days, 8 hours each. The reading mentioned three benefits that people have if the policy is applied. However, the lecturer criticizes each point stated in the article.
First, according to the reading the companies will increase their benefits because employees would feel more rested. Besides, this policy allows organizations to hire more workers without costing additional money because workers will be paid for 80 percent of their normal salary. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this because companies should spend both time and money as they would need to train new workers, buy new equipment and have more space. Besides, there would be additional costs because companies have to pay health medical benefits for these new people.
The second advantage mentioned in the article is the decrease of unemployment rate because companies will hire more employees. However, the professor states that hiring more workers is costly. Besides, he mentioned that companies can ask people to work overtime and also put pressure on them to complete a five-day work in four days. For that reason, companies might not add new jobs.
Finally, the passage stated that employees would have a better quality life if the policy is applied. The lecturer criticizes this by arguing that it could affect people's career and promotions. Moreover, their economic situation might be affected because they could lose their jobs during an economic recession.
In conclusion, the arguments exposed in the reading passage advocating for the new work policy were all refuted by the professor.
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- TOEFL TPO 11 - Integrated Writing Task 81
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1430.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 273.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2380952381 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47693271924 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545787545788 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 437.4 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.9144987394 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.3333333333 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53333333333 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.43233890905 0.272083759551 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131783973358 0.0996497079465 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0868701127026 0.0662205650399 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202603078478 0.162205337803 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0980207591314 0.0443174109184 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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