Rewards improve employee's productivity
Both the reading passage and the lecture are discussing the idea that rewards improve productivity in the workplace.
The author of the passage claims employees' motivations are imporved when they are promised incentives such as special privileges, promotions, or luxury vacations paid by the company. The professor opposed this idea by stating that people want to be respected for their hard work instead of being awarded material things. The professor states that rewarding people materially is the same as punishing them. In fact, the professor believes that when people are rewarded materially, they feel manipulated. Furthermore, the dissatisfaction of not getting what they anticipate makes employees even more angry about being rewarded.
The passage argues that people tend to be industrious when they are granted special bonuses for their high productivity. The professor counters the passage's author by suggesting that awards reduce the amount of work that an employee can produce. For instance, employees might conceal challenges that they face in their work, or not ask the employer for ways to overcome them because they fear to be denied their awards. Thus, employees will work less, for they will skip difficult tasks for the sake of being rewarded.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 323, 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.
...stead of being awarded material things. The professor states that rewarding people ...
^^^
Line 3, column 261, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t an employee can produce. For instance, employees might conceal challenges that ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, if, so, thus, for instance, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 16.0 30.3222958057 53% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1072.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 198.0 270.72406181 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41414141414 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.75116612262 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74537575793 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 145.348785872 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.59595959596 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 320.4 419.366225166 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.265657105 49.2860985944 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.2 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.158269121555 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0731215475236 0.0996497079465 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.073563502112 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148126257475 0.162205337803 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0926607075443 0.0443174109184 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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