"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
The author makes a decision of restoring the time devoted to weather and local news as it was before a year. The author makes this decision with the support of his conclusion that increase in weather and local news time will attract viewers and will help to gain advertising revenues. However, the author makes certain unwarranted assumptions without specific evidence that lead to the deficiencies in the argument.
The author states that the late-night news program has increased the time for national news and decreased the time for weather and local news. The increase and decrease with respect to what? The time devoted to these programs before is not specified. It might be the case that earlier national news were devoted 2 hours and an increase of 30 minutes was done while the weather and local news were devoted 4 hours and 1 hour was decreased. If this was the case, weather and local news would have still been given a more coverage. The 'increase' and 'decrease' should be specified in amount and the earlier devoted time should be specified to ensure the veracity of the argument.
The author's second contention is that most of the complaints received by the television station were in concern about the weather and local news. The author uses the word 'most' to indicate a large amount but it is vague. The number of complaints received and the number of subscribers will give a clear ratio and indicate the amount of people concerned about the weather and local news. The author does not give any specific details about the 'concern' in the complaints. This concern may be regarding the quality of the news and might not be essentially regarding the time devoted. Unless the concern is clearly expressed, the author's statement cannot be regarded cogent.
Additionally, it is stated that the local businesses have cancelled the advertising contracts with the channel. The author has not explained the exact reason for local businesses cancelling the contracts. It might be that the local businesses can no more afford advertising on a large scale. Also, it might be that they find no significant increase in their profits after adverting in late-night programs and decide to cancel. There can be different reasons and it will not be apt to assume that the reason for their cancelling is due to less time devoted to weather and local news.
The author makes several assumptions and unless specific evidence supporting the claims is not provided, the recommendation should not be taken seriously. Without substantial evidence, there is no assurance that devoting more time to weather and local news will result in more viewership and attract advertising revenues.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 192, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ease and decrease with respect to what? The time devoted to these programs before i...
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Line 5, column 147, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ncern about the weather and local news. The author uses the word most to indicate a...
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Line 5, column 221, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ndicate a large amount but it is vague. The number of complaints received and the n...
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Line 5, column 387, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...erned about the weather and local news. The author does not give any specific detai...
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Line 5, column 626, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...s the concern is clearly expressed, the authors statement cannot be regarded cogent. ...
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Line 7, column 263, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to advertise'.
Suggestion: to advertise
...the local businesses can no more afford advertising on a large scale. Also, it might be tha...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'while', 'with respect to']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.246315789474 0.25644967241 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.183157894737 0.15541462614 118% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0821052631579 0.0836205057962 98% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0442105263158 0.0520304965353 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0231578947368 0.0272364105082 85% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0968421052632 0.125424944231 77% => OK
Participles: 0.0652631578947 0.0416121511921 157% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.63124861215 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0252631578947 0.026700313972 95% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.132631578947 0.113004496875 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0357894736842 0.0255425247493 140% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00631578947368 0.0127820249294 49% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2676.0 2731.13054187 98% => OK
No of words: 445.0 446.07635468 100% => OK
Chars per words: 6.01348314607 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.361797752809 0.378187486979 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.283146067416 0.287650121315 98% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.188764044944 0.208842608468 90% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.125842696629 0.135150697306 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63124861215 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 207.018472906 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.397752808989 0.469332199767 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 43.3132562036 52.1807786196 83% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.039408867 110% => OK
Sentence length: 20.2272727273 23.2022227129 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.6749807011 57.7814097925 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.636363636 141.986410481 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2272727273 23.2022227129 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.724660767414 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 3.58251231527 167% => OK
Readability: 48.5418794688 51.9672348444 93% => OK
Elegance: 1.63025210084 1.8405768891 89% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.509628262357 0.441005458295 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.160717113732 0.135418324435 119% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0682149389521 0.0829849096947 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.615836696326 0.58762219726 105% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.114696157418 0.147661913831 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.233406019678 0.193483328276 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105072035111 0.0970749176394 108% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.522260966004 0.42659136922 122% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0829280281236 0.0774707102158 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.371171185411 0.312017818177 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0867303465833 0.0698173142475 124% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.33743842365 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 13.0 6.46551724138 201% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 14.657635468 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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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