The following appeared in a memo from a vice president of Quiot Manufacturing.
"During the past year, Quiot Manufacturing had 30 percent more on-the-job accidents than at the nearby Panoply Industries plant, where the work shifts are one hour shorter than ours. Experts say that significant contributing factors in many on-the-job accidents are fatigue and sleep deprivation among workers. Therefore, to reduce the number of on-the-job accidents at Quiot and thereby increase productivity, we should shorten each of our three work shifts by one hour so that employees will get adequate amounts of sleep."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author says that Quiot Manufacturing should reduce work time of their workers in order to reduce on-the-job accidents and increase productivity. However, the claim relies on some assumptions that need to be addressed.
The vice president mentions that the number of on-the-job accidents are 30 percent more at Quiot Manufacturing than that number at Panoply Industries. The assumption is that the these two company are analogous in various aspects such as working environment, worker's background. However, if it requires a lot of labor for workers at Quiot while employee at Panoply only need to do some assembling jobs, it is not reasonable to compare the number of the accidents of the two firms and conclude that short work time can result in less accidents. It is also possible that most workers at Quiot are older than those at Panoply. As a result, they could not be as concentrate as the employee at Panoply and make them easier to get hurt when working.
Some experts says that tiredness can lead to on-the-job accidents. The author assumes that those experts are worth trusted. Yet, for example, if they just come to the conclusion by intuition and don't have any certain evidence support their claim, the statement is quite problematic. Or maybe those experts are bribed by the workers, so they just make up some fake conclusions to suggest the company to reduce the average work time. The author should give the background of the experts to check whether their words can be trusted.
The author also assumes that reducing the work time by one hour is effective to restore the workers' energy. Nevertheless, if most worker use the one hour break to play video games or playing sports with their fellow, it is unlikely that those workers can ease their fatigue after the break. Therefore, the vice president should come up with some plans in order to ensure the workers do get some rest in the break time.
To substantiate his argument, the author should address the above assumptions.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 339 350
No. of Characters: 1627 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.291 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.799 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.526 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 111 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.188 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.684 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.585 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.07 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 528, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun accidents is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...lude that short work time can result in less accidents. It is also possible that mos...
^^^^
Line 5, column 14, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'say'.
Suggestion: say
...get hurt when working. Some experts says that tiredness can lead to on-the-job a...
^^^^
Line 5, column 196, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...come to the conclusion by intuition and dont have any certain evidence support their...
^^^^
Line 7, column 93, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'workers'' or 'worker's'?
Suggestion: workers'; worker's
...by one hour is effective to restore the workers energy. Nevertheless, if most worker us...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 126, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[1]
Message: Use only 'worker' (without 'most') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: worker
...re the workers energy. Nevertheless, if most worker use the one hour break to play video ga...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, while, for example, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1671.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 338.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94378698225 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62406688946 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.491124260355 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 705.55239521 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.1333657581 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.4375 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.125 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198512329529 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0686451466888 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10236828741 0.0701772020484 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0968645494449 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0996548655761 0.0628817314937 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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