The reading and the lecture discuss about decreasing the five-day workweek to four. The author of the reading feels that there are three possible advantages in doing so. Meanwhile, the lecturer challenges the claim made in the article and believes that the explanations are faulty.
To begin with, the author claims that the four- day workweek policy would help in making more profit to the company. The article mentions that the employees are well rested and productive, as a result, they are less prone to making errors. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He insists that organization would have bear more cost eventually. Additionally, he says that the more workers that the office recruits to get the work done, greater and medical benefits should be given to all the employees no matter how many days a week they work.
Secondly, the author asserts that this plan would help in alleviating the unemployment problem. The article goes on to state that for every 4 employees, an additional one employee could be hired, for they would only be paid for 80% of their original salary. However, the lecturer argues this by mentioning that the hiring cost would be too high. Instead, it would be expecting the work to be done in four days instead of five, even if it means to work overtime, making the job more unpleasant.
Finally, the author posits that the workers can increase their quality of life. Moreover, the article suggests that they can enjoy their free time according to their interests. On the other hand, the lecturer points out that the idea possesses the threat to the kind of life they are living. He notes that the job stability wouldn’t be as intact and the chances of growth in the career would also be very low.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, while, kind of, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1455.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 301.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83388704319 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46895940275 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56146179402 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.7010153917 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.9375 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8125 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.9375 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => 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: 0.208131600538 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0586042677528 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0671470597362 0.0662205650399 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120170965228 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0658921256326 0.0443174109184 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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