The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company:
"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, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.”
The above argument is a recommendation suggested by the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company. The argument suggests that the productivity of the employees of Acme will increase, once their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course. It has also given examples that the graduates of this course were able to perform better in their professional part of life. Moreover, it has been proposed that Acme should invest in the course since it costs $500 against its benefits. However, the proposed argument does not take into consideration the ups and downs and the feasibility of the course.
First of all, it has been put forward that the productivity of the employees of other companies have improved by a large extent by taking the Easy Read Speed- Reading Course. However, the argument fails how provide how this has been achieved. Other companies might have polished their policies regarding how their employees work which might have motivated them to work efficiently. Likewise the specialization of Acme could be different from other companies. Therefore, it cannot be stated that this course is the catalyst for increased productivity. Moreover, it has also been suggested that some of their graduates have performed well after enrolling in the course. However, it again fails in providing the success ratio of the course. Productivity heavily depends on an individual. If an individual loves the work he is entrusted with, there is a more chance that he will complete the task efficiently. Therefore, this argument regarding the success of the course on their graduates is severely undermined.
Secondly, it has been argued that the faster one reads, the more amount of information he absorbs which can lead to increased productivity. While this statement seems to be beneficial, it could actually hinder the working of an employee. It is to be understood that all individuals are different in their behavior and approach to a situation. Each individual has their own method that helps them to be more efficient. Therefore, giving them a situation such as to read faster may hinder their way of thinking, thereby resulting iin opposite than what was required.
Similarly, the recommendation also proposes the company to inn the course without thinking the feasibility of the investment. For instance, the argument provides te cost of course to be five hundred dollars. However, it has not taken into consideration the number of people Acme has employed, which could lead to potential loss to the company. Moreover, the argument fails to suggest the kind of employees that the course targets. There could be people who are not efficient as per company’s needs. Therefore, the recommendation should provide insight to these matters. Likewise, the benefits of the course are less compared to its price tag. The benefits of the course should be taken into account while proposing the argument.
The argument above weakens the recommendation proposed to the president. Investing in a course that increases the productivity of its employees in beneficial to every company and its employees, in the long run. However, the type of course, feasibility and the advantages it brings should be taken into consideration while making a decision.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 383, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Likewise,
...ave motivated them to work efficiently. Likewise the specialization of Acme could be dif...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, however, if, likewise, may, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, similarly, so, therefore, well, while, as to, for instance, kind of, of course, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 28.8173652695 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2760.0 2260.96107784 122% => OK
No of words: 525.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25714285714 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78673985869 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96613447799 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.441904761905 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 859.5 705.55239521 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 19.7664670659 157% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.2278203619 57.8364921388 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 89.0322580645 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.935483871 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.16129032258 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.20758483034 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
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: 0.301826496445 0.218282227539 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0705627329758 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0820435251548 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157050174074 0.128457276422 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0922767147626 0.0628817314937 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 98.500998004 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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