Although both the reading and listening passage deal with the same topic: cutting down the workweek from 5 days a week to 4 days a week in the United States, their perspective are different. While the author of the reading believes that reducing the time of work has advantage to both workers and employers, the lecturer casts doubt on the writer’s idea. He thinks that working 4 days a week have some concerns.
The first point that the author makes in the passage is that working 4 days a week benefit the company’s profit. The article notes that thanks to the variety of the employee, and their alertness, the company has the work done in short time with little errors which may increase the profit of corporation. However, the lecturer refutes this idea and asserts that the change in work week leads some extraneous money. He elaborates on this by mentioning the cost spending for training and medical health for new employees. Moreover, the money investing for more space and computers is considerable concern to a company.
Another point that the author makes is that reducing the workweek from 5 days a week to 4 days a week benefit the employees a lot. It is mentioned that the shortened work week let the employee have more time for rest. Therefore, they will become alert and make less errors in their work. On the contrary, the lecturer refutes this argument and claims that the amount of work will be a burden to the employee if there is a change in the work week. He argues that employees must have to do the same amount of work for just 4 days, which makes the job less pleasant for them.
The last point that the author makes is that changing the work week from 5 days a week to 4 days a week improves the employees’ lifes. The article mentioned that worker will have more time to spend for their family, and themselves if reducing the working time. On the contrary, the lecturer claims that there will be risk in employees’ lifes if cutting down on the work week. He puts forth the idea that both job ability and job career of worker will decrease as working 4 days per week. For example, the management position requiring a careful control on operating process needs the worker to spend more time in their work and affords high wage as well.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 262, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun errors is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...refore, they will become alert and make less errors in their work. On the contrary, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in short, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1885.0 1373.03311258 137% => OK
No of words: 406.0 270.72406181 150% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.64285714286 5.08290768461 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48881294772 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49567681724 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418719211823 0.540411800872 77% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 558.0 419.366225166 133% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.019889549 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.722222222 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5555555556 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61111111111 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380174928079 0.272083759551 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147636596187 0.0996497079465 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0593526608113 0.0662205650399 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267778400668 0.162205337803 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0839162441568 0.0443174109184 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 53.8541721854 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.93 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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