The reading and the lecture are both about the employees who work five days a week and four days a week. The author of the reading states that companies offering the option for four days a week for 80 percent pay would benefit the whole economy and the individual companies and provided three reasons for support. However, the lecturer refutes each of the author's points by saying that it would not benefit the company and the life quality of people.
First, the article conveys that the shortened workweek of employees would increase the profits of the company as the company pays only 80 percent payroll. However, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that it reduces the profits of the company because of adding new employees the company should provide training and medical benefits. Furthermore, more workspace is needed and extra computer systems are required which reduces the profits of the company.
Second, the article claims that unemployment rates can be reduced as the workers work only 4 days a week. Nevertheless, the professor refutes this point by saying that if a company expects the employees to work more hours, it leads to an unpleasant situation to employees.
Third, the text claims that the employees who work four days a week can have more time to spend with their families and can enjoy leisure activities. However, the lecturer says that working four days have some risks like there is no guarantee of the job when the economy decreases as well as the company prefers to give promotions to the workers who work five days a week. Therefore, it also reduces the quality of the life.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, third, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1345.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89090909091 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42680894446 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.48 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 405.0 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => 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: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.437649378 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.272727273 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.524459803462 0.272083759551 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.189992419939 0.0996497079465 191% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106758720333 0.0662205650399 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.311502941877 0.162205337803 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0831552967106 0.0443174109184 188% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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