The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
“Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this time period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station’s coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have just canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.”
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.
The business manager wants to restore the same earlier devoted time for weather and local news. His views are based on receiving most complaints regarding coverage of weather and local news as well as decrease in advertising revenue. But this argument has lot of loopholes and assumptions.
Most of complaints received from viewers were regarding stations coverage of weather and local news. But we dont know, whether these complaints came for less coverage of local and weather news, or incompatency of employees concerned with local and weather news. Maybe the team requiring to collect local news, aren't doing their work appropriately. They may have a dearth of local news. It is also possible, our weather broadcasting team may have given spurious weather reports. We just don't know.
Additonally, there is a probability that number of viewers for our news channel may have increased after we started broadcasting more national news. We may have gained significance viewers from our compitators. Our national news can be of utmost quality which have increased our viewers for our news channel. Yeah if the number of viewers have decresed after the given change, then we can ponder about the given recommendation.
We don't have any information regarding economic condition of the country. It can be possible that economic state of the nation would be in downfall, which led our local businesses to cancel their advitising contact with us. If downfall economy has to be blame, then bringing back earlier time slots for local and weather news wouldn't increase our advertising revenue. Unless more information is given regarding country economic state and also the business condition of local businesses, we can't push forward for the recommendation.
The argument is rife with holes and assumption, unless more information is given, it will be unnecessary to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
The business manager wants to restore the same earlier devoted time...
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Message: After 'Most of', you should use 'the' ('Most of the complaints') or simply say ''Most complaints''.
Suggestion: Most of the complaints; Most complaints
...as lot of loopholes and assumptions. Most of complaints received from viewers were regarding st...
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Suggestion: don't
...erage of weather and local news. But we dont know, whether these complaints came for...
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...e team requiring to collect local news, arent doing their work appropriately. They ma...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...given spurious weather reports. We just dont know. Additonally, there is a probab...
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... from our compitators. Our national news can be of utmost quality which have incr...
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Suggestion: don't
...r about the given recommendation. We dont have any information regarding economic...
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...er time slots for local and weather news wouldnt increase our advertising revenue...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
... time slots for local and weather news wouldnt increase our advertising revenue. Unles...
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Line 7, column 492, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...iness condition of local businesses, we cant push forward for the recommendation. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, regarding, so, then, well, as to, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 311.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24758842444 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78318063312 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.48231511254 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 503.1 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.1793408485 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.6666666667 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2777777778 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.55555555556 5.70786347227 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.336346068444 0.218282227539 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122909526952 0.0743258471296 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0938457410304 0.0701772020484 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210941847071 0.128457276422 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0559382500452 0.0628817314937 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.87 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 98.500998004 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.