32. The following appeared in a memo from a vice president of Quiot Manufacturing.
"During the past year, Quiot Manufacturing had 30 percent more on-the-job accidents than at the nearby Panoply Industries plant, where the work shifts are one hour shorter than ours. Experts say that significant contributing factors in many on-the-job accidents are fatigue and sleep deprivation among workers. Therefore, to reduce the number of on-the-job accidents at Quiot and thereby increase productivity, we should shorten each of our three work shifts by one hour so that employees will get adequate amounts of sleep."
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.
Based on the presented memo, the author concludes with abriged working time on purpose to sleep, based on the fact that more working time causes loss of vigor, so that eventually calls accident. Indeed, the argument might hold be true in some cases, however, a number of questions need to be answered in order to verify the assumption.
First of all, the author claims without firm evidence that Quiot Manufacturing and Panoly industires plant are in same working environment but only difference is working time. However, it is not clear in other factors differ from Quiot to Panoly, such as manufactoring product, education level of workers, quipment quality, and so on. Furthermore, the author fails to examine the type of industry, if, Quiot is heavy industry such as chemical, which makes factory with hazardous procedure, causes more quantitiy of accident, on the contrary, in the case of Panoly, simple food packing, causes less accident than Quiot’s. Therefore, further explanation is required in order to prove validity of author’s assertion.
Likewise, it is assuemed that the magnitude of working experience is totally same, concludes with propotional disaster to working span. Unfortunately, contrary to the author’s propose, it is possible that less working time causes fatigue, plus to sleep depriviation. In other words, stressful working experience can conclude with more tiredness with minor working hours, and sleep deprivation can be intense when industry operating time span is in night. In these cases, reducing working time may not be helpful to cultivate sleeping span of workers, ultimately lower accidenct rete. Accordingly, the author needs to verify if lesser working time assistes lesser accident throught investigating working environment of Quiot’s.
Even if allevaited working hours success to increase sleep hours of employers, it still needs to be asked whether productivity is increased to guarantee the author’s conclusion of exalting efficiency. Reducing working hours means lesser producting time, and if, accidents before act is not serious that critically strikes profit, finally shifting margin graph downside. Therefore, the author should consider the balanced profit between additional cost for securing time and profit achieved through alleviating accident rate to evaluate the claim.
In summary, numerous assumptions pertaining to the working environment, equal job working hours, and evaluating efficiency are need to be verified so as to assess the credibility of the prediction.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 385 350
No. of Characters: 2082 1500
No. of Different Words: 207 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.43 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.408 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.765 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 141 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.485 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.929 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.392 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.635 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...red in order to verify the assumption. First of all, the author claims without ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e validity of author's assertion. Likewise, it is assuemed that the magnit...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...g working environment of Quiot's. Even if allevaited working hours success...
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Line 4, column 32, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'hours'' or 'hour's'?
Suggestion: hours'; hour's
...apos;s. Even if allevaited working hours success to increase sleep hours of empl...
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Line 4, column 227, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'hours'' or 'hour's'?
Suggestion: hours'; hour's
...f exalting efficiency. Reducing working hours means lesser producting time, and if, a...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...g accident rate to evaluate the claim. In summary, numerous assumptions pertain...
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Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ting efficiency are need to be verified so as to assess the credibility of the predictio...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, likewise, may, so, still, therefore, as to, in summary, such as, first of all, in other words, in some cases, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2172.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 385.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.64155844156 5.12650576532 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96783908161 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568831168831 0.468620217663 121% => OK
syllable_count: 678.6 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4959001899 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.8 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6666666667 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.3333333333 5.70786347227 216% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160974040242 0.218282227539 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0580018031686 0.0743258471296 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0398122829873 0.0701772020484 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0901325466511 0.128457276422 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0388649737326 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 14.3799401198 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.18 48.3550499002 60% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.73 12.5979740519 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.0 8.32208582834 120% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 98.500998004 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.