Implementation of four day work week.
The reading and the listening are both about the employees preferring a four-day work week. More specifically, in regards to the passages, the author puts forth this idea and supports his opinion by providing three arguments. However, the lecturer is quick to point out that there are some serious flaws in the writer’s claims, and addresses, in detail, the trouble linked to each of the point in reading text.
To begin with, the author mentions that company’s profits will increase as workers will not be tired and they will not commit any expensive mistakes. Further, he adds that new employees can be hired for completing left over work without any extra cost, as the current employees will be paid 80 percent of their current pay. Nevertheless, the speaker contradicts this claim by stating that this proposal will lead to company’s being spending more in place of saving some money. Further, he explains that hiring new employees will bring more cost to company as these new employees will require health benefits and training to complete their tasks.
Secondly, the author claims that it will improve the country’s economic condition as unemployment rate will decrease. Next, he explains that with every 4 employees who adopts four-day work week policy, a new employee can be hired to complete the fifth day work. Yet, the speaker challenges this claim by revealing that hiring new employees is more expensive. Furthermore, he puts forward that in place of hiring new employees, companies will set expectations higher for their current employees or they will ask them to work over time, which will result in more difficult lives for the employees.
Finally, the author wraps up his arguments by positing that with reduction in work week, employees will have more time to devote to their families and to pursue their personal interests. Not surprisingly, in contrast to the author’s point, the lecturer contends that reduction in work week, will decrease the job stability of employees as they will be the first ones to be fired in state of economic crisis. He elaborates on this by bringing up that it will lead to reduction in chance to advance in their careers as promotions will be given to employees who work five days a week.
To sum up, the author and the lecturer has conflicting views regarding implementation of four day work week policy. It is clear that they will have trouble finding common ground on this.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 112, Rule ID: IN_REGARD_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'regarding' or 'with regard to'.
Suggestion: regarding; with regard to
... four-day work week. More specifically, in regards to the passages, the author puts forth thi...
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Line 5, column 632, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'completing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'train' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: completing
...ll require health benefits and training to complete their tasks. Secondly, the author ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, in contrast, in contrast to, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 5.04856512141 396% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 30.3222958057 181% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2064.0 1373.03311258 150% => OK
No of words: 407.0 270.72406181 150% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07125307125 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73701471861 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501228501229 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 591.3 419.366225166 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.9784236468 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.0 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4375 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.875 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222129780319 0.272083759551 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107064070257 0.0996497079465 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.160098951923 0.0662205650399 242% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179606752295 0.162205337803 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10859136203 0.0443174109184 245% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 63.6247240618 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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