The following appeared in a memorandum from the manager of WWAC radio station.
"To reverse a decline in listener numbers, our owners have decided that WWAC must change from its current rock-music format. The decline has occurred despite population growth in our listening area, but that growth has resulted mainly from people moving here after their retirement. We must make listeners of these new residents. We could switch to a music format tailored to their tastes, but a continuing decline in local sales of recorded music suggests limited interest in music. Instead we should change to a news and talk format, a form of radio that is increasingly popular in our area."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In the memorandum the author made two conclusions. They believe in order to stop a decline in listener numbers, they must accommodate to the new residents and change the program to news and talk shows instead of rock music. Close scrutiny shows that both conclusions are based on unfounded arguments.
The author first claims that they must appeal to the new residents, who are mainly retired people, to allay the reduce in listener numbers. But the evidence the author needs here is the absolute number of people who moved in. If the growth of residents is only a small proportion of the total num...
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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You made great arguments. Excellent!
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 461 350
No. of Characters: 2195 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.634 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.761 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.586 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.05 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.646 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.354 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.552 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 225, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'scrutiny'.
Suggestion: Scrutiny
...s and talk shows instead of rock music. Close scrutiny shows that both conclusions are based o...
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Line 3, column 109, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...who are mainly retired people, to allay the reduce in listener numbers. But the evidence t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, may, second, so, then, well, while, in fact, in general, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2266.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 461.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91540130152 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72847612179 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.444685466377 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 725.4 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.076416605 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.3 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.05 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.95 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146503862377 0.218282227539 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0493314281654 0.0743258471296 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0425403995184 0.0701772020484 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0941687754134 0.128457276422 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0284787207801 0.0628817314937 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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