Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading and the lecture are both about the effects of changing the number of working days to four days a week.The author of the reading feels that this change will bring about a positive impact on the economy as well on the lives of individuals. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion that reducing the number of work days in a week will neither impact the quality of life of the people nor boost the economy of the country.
To begin with, the author argues that this new change will help to increase the profits of the company. The article mentions that if the employees agree to work for 4 days a week for 80% of the pay , the companies will save money and as a result, the profits will go up. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that the new policy will actually force the company to spend a lot more money than they already are. Hiring new workers will lead to increased costs for training and medical benefits. Additionally, he says that new workers will require additional office space and more computers, which will ultimately cut into profits.
Secondly, the writer suggests that the overall unemployment rates will come down. In the article, it is said that if the existing employees work for fewer hours, the workload can be shifted to new employees. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that hiring new workers would prove to be costly for the company. He says that the companies can ask the workers to work overtime. He also mentions that the organizations can raise the company's expectations by telling the workers to do the same amount of job in fewer days. If this happens, the current job will become unpleasant.
Finally, the author posits that more free time would mean that the employees could enjoy a better quality of life. The article states that employees can spend the additional time with their families or can even focus on hobbies. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that the reduction in work hours will actually reduce the quality of life. The workers with four days a week job will have less job stability. Moreover, the chances of advancement in the career will also be less. Such people will be the first ones to loose jobs in case of an economic breakdown. Also, the chances of promotion would be much less, as the organisations would want to have five days a week workers in managerial positions.
To sum up, both the lecturer and the author of the reading hold conflicting views on whether the four days a week work policy would be a boon for the companies and individuals.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 115, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...ber of working days to four days a week.The author of the reading feels that this c...
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Line 1, column 251, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...my as well on the lives of individuals. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Line 3, column 198, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ork for 4 days a week for 80% of the pay , the companies will save money and as a ...
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Line 7, column 520, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[3]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
.... Such people will be the first ones to loose jobs in case of an economic breakdown. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, in contrast, as a result, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 26.0 5.04856512141 515% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 30.3222958057 185% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2148.0 1373.03311258 156% => OK
No of words: 458.0 270.72406181 169% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.68995633188 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.04702891845 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47915732943 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 145.348785872 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.458515283843 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 652.5 419.366225166 156% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 17.0 8.23620309051 206% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 13.0662251656 176% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3817886822 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.3913043478 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9130434783 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0736282254033 0.272083759551 27% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0278839150028 0.0996497079465 28% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0413535717415 0.0662205650399 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0513633723967 0.162205337803 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0280440284859 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 63.6247240618 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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