This topic is regarding whether or not companies should reduce the workdays from 5 days a week to 4 days a week. The lecture holds a perspective contrary to the reading passage.
First, companies will spend a lot more by reducing the workweek instead of increasing profits. Hiring new workers means companies will spend more on worker training and medical benefit. The cost of a 4-day week health benefit could be as much as a 5-day week. More office space and computers will be added because of more workers. Shortening the workweek will cost additional fees. The passage arguing that reducing the workweek could increase profits.
Second, the lecture argues that hiring is costly. the company may ask workers to work more time a day of increase the expectations which will make the work more unpleasant. The passage holds a different view that offering a shorter workweek will reduce the unemployment rate.
Thirdly, the lecture is saying that a shortened workweek will increase the job risk and decrease the quality of life. Workers working 4 days a week will compromise their job stabilities and opportunities to advance their careers. They may be the first ones to lose their jobs during an economic downturn. These people will be hard to get promotion because companies wants people who work 5 days a week in charge to make sure the continuous coverage and consistent supervision. The reading passage states that the option of a four-day workweek would be beneficial to the employees
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Essay evaluation report
more time a day of increase the expectations
more time a day to increase the expectations
because companies wants people
because companies want people
flaws:
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
more content wanted in the third paragraph
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 12
No. of Words: 249 250
No. of Characters: 1220 1200
No. of Different Words: 133 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.972 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.9 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.599 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 44 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.28 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.53 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.049 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Hi, I found it's hard to
Hi, I found it's hard to write down all the details while listening the lecture. Any solutions?
1. Learn to take notes. It is
1. Learn to take notes. It is hard to remember everything. Need some exercises to take good notes. basically repeated words, contents after transition words like: 'but, however, in addition...' are important for taking notes. Look at the following key words for the second argument:
"Second, with respect to overall employment, it doesn't follow that once some employees choose a four-day workweek, many more jobs will become available.
Hiring new workers is costly, as I argued a moment ago.
And companies have other options.
They might just choose to ask their employees to work overtime to make up the difference.
Worse, companies might raise expectations.
They might start to expect that their four-day employees can do the same amount of work they used to do in five days.
If this happens, then no additional jobs will be created and current jobs will become more unpleasant."
so those keywords like: costly, overtime, same amount of work will be the key words for notes. You don't take a lot of words for notes.
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2. Read the content carefully in the reading. The content in the listening will be opposite to the content in the reading most likely. If there are something mentioned in the reading, there will be something different showing in the listening.
Should I take notes while
Should I take notes while reading the passage?
No, you don't need. You will
No, you don't need. You will see the reading content again after a while once you are ready to write the essay. During reading, try to understand the content, and try to organize the content to three parts.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
actually most of the contents are from listening in the samples.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 25, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
This topic is regarding whether or not companies should reduce the workdays fr...
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Line 5, column 51, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...e lecture argues that hiring is costly. the company may ask workers to work more ti...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, may, regarding, second, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1250.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 249.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02008032129 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65318117224 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534136546185 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 373.5 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.3983320883 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.125 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5625 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0625 7.06452816374 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.365871932106 0.272083759551 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113948020057 0.0996497079465 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0843783333405 0.0662205650399 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206616936269 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0807911393882 0.0443174109184 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 13.3589403974 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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