"Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a 500-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read would cost Acme only $500 per employee—a small price to pay when you consider the benefits. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, to improve productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the advice and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the advice.
The recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company tends to bridge a strong positive correlation between Easy Reading-Speed Reading course and increase in productivity. The conclusion is based on the premises that, some employee showed positive productivity after graduating of that course. But on deeper analysis, it is evident that, the examples provided in the statement, are not enough cogent because of lack of information and many important questions are unanswered regarding some assumptions, and that is why, the recommendation failed to be a persuasive one.
One such flaw is that, the recommendation says that, one graduate of the course was able to read 500-page report in only two hour, but the question is that, what type of information was in that report and how much time it required to read the report before the course was taken? Without these information, the author can not definitely assert that the course improved their productivity because several situations can arise, which can also contribute to that above mentioned productivity. Moreover, the author of the recommendation did not clearly stated, whether that reading rate was more than the actual rate. Situations like, the 500 page report only contains a small informative portion, wheres most of the report contains irrelevant data and statistics. So, the author of the argument can benefit from providing more information regarding the questions, to make his argument more trustworthy.
Another flaw in the recommendation is that, it says, one graduate rose from assistant manager to vice president of the company within one year, but again fails to provide answer of some factual question regarding it. For instance, what was the employee credential?, what specific benefits he got from the course that can be specifically attributed to the course? Within the last one year, what specific achievement influenced the organization to rise him to such an important position? Without knowing those questions answer, we can not specifically attribute his success to that course solely. We can not avoid the fact that, the person can be the son of the chairman and if so, it is not that much needed for him to go to a higher position without any increased productivity, as one day he will take over the company after his father retirement. So, answering those questions will strengthen the authors recommendation further.
Similarly, the statement says that there are some other benefits like, free three week seminar and lifelong subscription to the East Read newsletter, but again fails to specify, what type of benefits is the company getting through service. Without knowing those information, how we can conclude that, the program is really bringing good and thus should be embraced by the company and it's employees?
To conclude, the recommendation lacks information and seems to provide incipient assumptions. The conclusion of the statement is based on some unverified assumptions and includes logical flaw. The author should have presented more concrete evidences and logical information to render the argument more cogent.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'hour' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'hours'.
Suggestion: hours
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Message: Did you mean 'this information' or 'these informations'?
Suggestion: this information; these informations
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Message: The verb 'did' requires base form of the verb: 'state'
Suggestion: state
...r of the recommendation did not clearly stated, whether that reading rate was more tha...
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...y contains a small informative portion, wheres most of the report contains irrelevant ...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ing those questions will strengthen the authors recommendation further. Similarly, th...
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Suggestion:
...hors recommendation further. Similarly, the statement says that there are some o...
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'seminar' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'seminars'.
Suggestion: seminars
...me other benefits like, free three week seminar and lifelong subscription to the East R...
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Message: Did you mean 'this information' or 'those informations'?
Suggestion: this information; those informations
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'moreover', 'really', 'regarding', 'similarly', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'for instance']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.232558139535 0.25644967241 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.155635062612 0.15541462614 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0715563506261 0.0836205057962 86% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0518783542039 0.0520304965353 100% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0304114490161 0.0272364105082 112% => OK
Prepositions: 0.101967799642 0.125424944231 81% => OK
Participles: 0.0357781753131 0.0416121511921 86% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.971340462 2.79052419416 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0357781753131 0.026700313972 134% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.12343470483 0.113004496875 109% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0232558139535 0.0255425247493 91% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0196779964222 0.0127820249294 154% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3161.0 2731.13054187 116% => OK
No of words: 499.0 446.07635468 112% => OK
Chars per words: 6.33466933868 6.12365571057 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.396793587174 0.378187486979 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.318637274549 0.287650121315 111% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.236472945892 0.208842608468 113% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.162324649299 0.135150697306 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.971340462 2.79052419416 106% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 207.018472906 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480961923848 0.469332199767 102% => OK
Word variations: 55.7784405211 52.1807786196 107% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 26.2631578947 23.2022227129 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.352052038 57.7814097925 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 166.368421053 141.986410481 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2631578947 23.2022227129 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.578947368421 0.724660767414 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 3.58251231527 223% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 58.1268853496 51.9672348444 112% => OK
Elegance: 1.55639097744 1.8405768891 85% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.409702185141 0.441005458295 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.12714494253 0.135418324435 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0650310433218 0.0829849096947 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.603723035945 0.58762219726 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.12408911011 0.147661913831 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163337201341 0.193483328276 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.085269102157 0.0970749176394 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.485575652678 0.42659136922 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0803217380502 0.0774707102158 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255914530614 0.312017818177 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0984955388686 0.0698173142475 141% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.33743842365 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 6.46551724138 170% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 14.657635468 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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