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.

According to the opinion of Acme Publishing Company personnel director company would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course. Anyway, such a conclusion is not reliable and cogent due to the fact author provides dubious an equivocal proofs to support his concept.

First of all, after provides readers with an example of one graduate of the course who was able to read a 500-page report in only two hours, but did not provide readers with any information that proves that the results of this worker were improved. It is possible to assume he was a speed reader before the course, and thus the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course did not contribute in his improvement. In addition, personnel director gives another instance of the graduate, who rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year, but in this case the influence of the magical course is also not clear. There are many reasons to get a higher position in the company: distinguished personal qualities, good performance, and sycophancy. Moreover, author does not tell anything about influence of the Easy Read course on other workers of the company. Two successful exemplars are not enough to make a conclusion about the efficiency of this course.

The statement @the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday@ is not as obvious as author claims. The fast reading does not mean the imbibing of the information. It is need to be noticed that not all the information a worker need to construe is in the form of a text. There is lot of visual, video and audio information which is stringent for employer to construe. Due to the fact that it can be inferred that course focuses on perceiving the text information it is a big question if it is useful in the cases requiring understanding of others kinds of data.

Finally, author suggests that this course is very cheap, but this statement is very controversial. 500 dollars per person is a large amount of money, especially for the companies with a huge state of workers. Thus, company must calculate the expected profits and compare it with the costs of course and other possible ways to improve the efficiency of the personnel, for instance some team building trainings.

Counting all the possible advantages of the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course implementation it is not inviolable that such course will lead to the great benefits, thus a lot of additional confirmations of author assumptions must be made in order to prove his view.