"All too often, companies hire outside consultants to suggest ways for the company to operate more efficiently. If companies were to spend more time listening to their own employees, such consultants would be unnecessary." -
Write an essay in which you take a position on the statement above. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true.
In today's age, appointing a consultancy firm to find ways to increase your institution or firm's profits or identify its weaknesses is a pretty common occurence. In some ways, "hiring a consultant" has almost become a fad in the corporate world. In this context, I agree with the argument presented in the statement & believe that there is plenty of scope for the members or employees of the firm themselves to supply ideas that would help increase its efficiency. More often than not, there exists a significant talent pool among the employees. But, since most managers have the faulty notion that ...
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Thank you so much for your
Thank you so much for your quick review. About your first suggestion - "Sentence: This might happen when there are truly no avenues for improvement that the company or its employees is being able to come up with on its own.
Description: The fragment or its employees is not usually followed by is", you might have noticed i enclosed the fragment "or its employees" within parentheses. I was actually referring to "the company" when I used the article "is".
Thanks again!
Sentence: This might happen when there are truly no avenues for improvement that the company or its employees is being able to come up with on its own.
Description: The fragment or its employees is not usually followed by is
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace is with are
Sentence: In today's age, appointing a consultancy firm to find ways to increase your institution or firm's profits or identify its weaknesses is a pretty common occurence.
Error: occurence Suggestion: occurrence
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Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 558 350
No. of Characters: 2713 1500
No. of Different Words: 258 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.86 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.862 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.636 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 187 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 143 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 111 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 72 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.9 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.776 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.328 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.479 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5