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 discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
While it may be true that acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of their employees to take the easy read course. this argument does not make any cogent case it is easy to understand why acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of their employees to take the easy read course. But, this argument is rife with holes and assumptions, and thus, not strong enough to support author's conclusion. I think there may be some other factors which may make author's claim to be invalid. hence, the author's argument is incomplete.
Initially, the author readily assumes that many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the easy read speed reading course has greatly improved productivity. This is merely an assumption made without solid ground. For e.g., it may possible that what works for other companies may not work for acme. moreover, author does not provide any evidence to support his statement that how easy read speed reading course has greatly improved productivity. Further, author does not mention any information about other companies’ improvement in productivity. Hence, the argument would have been more convincing if it explicitly states that how easy read speed reading course is responsible for improvement of productivity.
Further, the argument here readily states that one graduate of easy read speed reading course was able to read a 500 page in only two hours. Additionally, the author states that another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under the year. Further, the author's underlying assumption is that the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. this is again weak and unsupported claim as it does not demonstrate any correlation between one graduate of easy read speed reading course was able to read a 500 page in only two hours and another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under the year. Moreover, it may possible that one graduate of easy read speed reading course, who was able to read a 500 page in only two hours is only because in book more than 300 pages include only figures which does not require any reading. if the argument had offer more evidence that what type of book person is reading and what is a correlation between one graduate of easy read speed reading course was able to read a 500 page in only two hours and another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under the year. Then it would have been a lot more convincing to the reader.
Additionally, the author here states that 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 and based on this author concludes that acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the easy read course, However careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provide little credible support for author's conclusion. For e.g., it may possible that for some employees $500 is a huge amount and due to their weak financial status they can’t afford this kind of courses. Moreover, author does not provide any evidence about how acme would benefit greatly if all of their employees take the easy read course. without convincing evidence the reader is left with the impression that claims made by author are more of a wishful thinking rather that substantive evidence.
In conclusion, the author's argument is unpersuasive. Additionally, by considering the discussion above it can be seen that reason mentioned by the author are not enough to support his suggestion. The argument loses weight because it has no explanation for the discussion given above.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 645 350
No. of Characters: 3115 1500
No. of Different Words: 221 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.04 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.829 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.53 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 215 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 167 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 107 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.714 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 25.003 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.524 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.348 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.557 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.145 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
While it may be true that acme would benefit ...
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Line 1, column 120, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...employees to take the easy read course. this argument does not make any cogent case ...
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Line 1, column 484, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Hence
...h may make authors claim to be invalid. hence, the authors argument is incomplete. ...
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Line 1, column 495, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...authors claim to be invalid. hence, the authors argument is incomplete. Ini...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...he authors argument is incomplete. Initially, the author readily assumes th...
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Line 9, column 330, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Moreover
... other companies may not work for acme. moreover, author does not provide any evidence t...
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Line 11, column 412, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...ion you can absorb in a single workday. this is again weak and unsupported claim as ...
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Line 11, column 600, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...to read a 500 page in only two hours and another graduate rose from an assistant ...
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Line 11, column 932, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...res which does not require any reading. if the argument had offer more evidence th...
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Line 11, column 1143, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...to read a 500 page in only two hours and another graduate rose from an assistant ...
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Line 15, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lot more convincing to the reader. Additionally, the author here states tha...
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Line 19, column 143, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Included
... to pay when you consider the benefits. included in this fee is a three-week seminar in ...
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Line 19, column 298, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... and based on this author concludes that acme would benefit greatly by requiring ...
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Line 19, column 748, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ut how acme would benefit greatly if all of their employees take the easy read co...
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Line 19, column 796, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Without
...ir employees take the easy read course. without convincing evidence the reader is left ...
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Line 23, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... rather that substantive evidence. In conclusion, the authors argument is u...
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Line 27, column 20, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...vidence. In conclusion, the authors argument is unpersuasive. Additionally,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, e.g., hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, thus, while, i think, in conclusion, kind of, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 28.8173652695 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3210.0 2260.96107784 142% => OK
No of words: 642.0 441.139720559 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.03365860172 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64004355468 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.352024922118 0.468620217663 75% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1002.6 705.55239521 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.9185479436 57.8364921388 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.461538462 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6923076923 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.26923076923 5.70786347227 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.35739969831 0.218282227539 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119128532452 0.0743258471296 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127405891013 0.0701772020484 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199203770363 0.128457276422 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12917606618 0.0628817314937 205% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.09 8.32208582834 85% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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