The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.
"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, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
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 personal director has proposed a recommendation for the president of Acme Publishing company regarding the speed reading course offered by Easy Read and speaks about the benefits of the program and at the end insists the chief of Acme let its employees take up the course. This argument seems persuasive at the first glance, notwithstanding, diligent analysis of this opinion has shown that the proposal given is unreasonable and flawed with multifold assumptions and gives rise to certain questions that would immensely undermine the belief. To be seemed convincing the author must have reinforced his school of thought with adequate facts and data.
First and foremost, the presented piece of suggestion has given an analogy of Acme with other companies. It is stated that the peer organizations that made their workers take up the Easy Read curriculum have ameliorated their efficiency. But, there is no reference regarding the nature of the job of other companies in comparison with Acme. Two examples are considered in the argument, but there is a chance that the two of them might be performing exceptionally well and they have other talents also, thus even without this proficient reading exercise, they would have secured their current positions. Apart from these two instances, there is no evidence on how the course exactly imparted expertise among the laborers as a whole.
Secondly, one of the threshold limitations represented in the advice is that the acceleration in reading would be conducive to ingest more information. However, the writer missed seeing the nuance between reading and interpretation. Skimming without keeping the mind in the reading material will not instill the pieces of information. Perfunctory reading will not provide any benefit in nurturing proficiency. Along with swift reading, a person should be able to unify the concentration at the same phase to use the details. Any depiction of how the speed reading course would be benefitting the employees and the employer would have upheld the argument to an unquestionable degree.
Finally, the cost of the course per employee is given and alluded to the benefits that other companies enjoyed at a comparatively smaller price. Nevertheless, there is no clarity on whether the amount is affordable for the organization. If the salary of the staff is less than $500, then it would be painstaking to spend a huge amount on an employee for unforeseen benefits. If there are a myriad number of employees, then the cost would be onerous for the corporation. The lack of statistical data undermines the effectiveness of this opinion.
To recapitulate the notion, the author of this piece of recommendation has overlooked certain significant elements such as logical depiction, statistical evidence, unification of facts, hence making the argument a fallacy. Without any firm proof to endorse the idea of incorporating an easy reader course for the staff and the dearth of clarity between reading and interpretation and with several other flaws, any relevant answers to the questions proposed would strengthen the argument to an extent. Otherwise, this recommendation is not appealing to be used by Acme company to improve the proficiency of its employees by improving the celerity of their reading.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 524 350
No. of Characters: 2711 1500
No. of Different Words: 261 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.784 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.174 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.956 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 199 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 161 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 110 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.818 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.59 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.277 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.277 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.048 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 350, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ive at the first glance, notwithstanding , diligent analysis of this opinion has s...
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Line 3, column 172, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'missed seeing'.
Suggestion: missed seeing
...t more information. However, the writer missed to see the nuance between reading and interpre...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, look, nevertheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, apart from, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 55.5748502994 135% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2762.0 2260.96107784 122% => OK
No of words: 523.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2810707457 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04787900987 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 273.0 204.123752495 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521988527725 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 873.9 705.55239521 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.4152666821 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.545454545 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7727272727 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.22727272727 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.319679354424 0.218282227539 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0824436792878 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0847640414087 0.0701772020484 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172584335332 0.128457276422 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0645521909865 0.0628817314937 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 150.0 98.500998004 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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