Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option.
The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring more staff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase company profits.
For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rates. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate.
Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests, or enjoying leisure activities.
Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss whether the four days working in a week be beneficial or not. The former argues that there are four benefits to offering four days a week working days, but the later contradicts each of these points.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that implementing the four-hour workweek benefits the company, however, the lecturer contends offering a four-day workweek won't affect the company's well-being. Since the health care cost and living costs are the same, it won't benefit the employees as well.
Second of all, the text asserts that a reduced workweek increases the company's profits. In contrast, the listening counters that it would increase the company's cost since more employee necessitates more computers and eventually it decreases the profit of the company. Moreover, hiring new workers might be costly, so it will shrink the profit of the company.
Third of all, the article contends that] a four-day workweek is better for each employee since it provides them more time to visit with their families. In contrast, audio conters that it would reduce the quality of life since an individual's pay is significantly reduced.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, third, well, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1001.0 1373.03311258 73% => OK
No of words: 194.0 270.72406181 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15979381443 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73207559907 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57979777764 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 145.348785872 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.582474226804 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 295.2 419.366225166 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0299030659 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.222222222 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5555555556 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.44444444444 7.06452816374 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171520237085 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0736657639538 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0729973497941 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106804854617 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.069600349022 0.0443174109184 157% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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