"For the past year, as part of an effort to broaden our supporter base, our Folk on the Air program has allocated less time to traditional American folk music and more time to Latino music and world music. In recent months, many long-term supporters of our station have written to complain about what they describe as the un-American bias of the program. In addition, the local newspaper has published a recent editorial critical of our shift in programming. Therefore, in order to forestall any further adverse publicity for the station and to avoid the loss of additional listener-supporters, we should discontinue our current emphasis on Latino and world music and restore the time devoted to traditional American folk music to its former level."
In this memo, the business manager of the listener-supported program radio station broadcasting the Folk music recommends restoring the programming of the Folk program to its previous schedule due to an unwelcome from the listeners of the program for the decrease in the folk music and the increase in the Latin and international music. To support this the manager cites the following facts about the program: for the past year, they have changed the programs to gather more listeners, but in recent months they have complains from their long-term supporters of the station; Close scrutiny of each of these facts, however, reveals that none of them lend credible support to the recommendation.
First, the change in the Folk program has started from the past year and complains about the change in the program was revealed a few months ago. The author of the memo has only considered the change in the program as the main cause of the complaints. In fact, there may be other reasons as well to support the current situation. The Folk program has started to play music from Latino and international music where the popularity of the music in whole was low or the music were sung by unknown singers. Thus, the manager cannot base his evidences on just the inclusions of other types of music in the program.
Second, it is mentioned that the long-term supporters of the program had complaints about the change in the content which a couple of assumptions can be derived from it. The many long-term supporters of the program are not necessarily the listeners of the music they can include the sponsors of the program which can due to the decrease of the advertisements had complaints about the change in the program or they can consist the lowest part of the fans of the program; this can be shown by the reason that not all of the listeners of the program send their feedback to the channel which is due to the disinclination to be in contact with the program or not having the communication devices such as phones or the internet to access their portals or email them.
Third, as the program has started the inclusion of playing Latin and international music to its program, it is claimed that the long-term supporters of the program have complained about the change. This case does not really imply that the program has not gained new supporters. The manager has only talked about the complaints and doesn't give additional information on the new fans of the channel. Also, it can be hypothesized that the new and old fans who are satisfied with the current programs of the channel, are not inclined to at least send a comment to the program. In addition, the program can be on air in any region of the world or other countries which listen to that. In this case the number of the listeners has actually increased because international songs are mostly listened all around the world and are not limited to just a couple of regions or countries.
Fourth, it is said that the Folk on the Air program has changed the timing of local music and adding international and Latin music and as a result, a set of complains concerning the change in the programs was received. The Folk program is part of the Air program which the manager of the channel may have changed the whole programming of the channel, not just the Folk. Therefore, complains about the programs cannot be directly noticed by the music program. It can be from the culture program, for instance.
In sum, the recommendation relies on doubtful assumptions that render it unsatisfactory as it says. Therefore, the manager should consider other possibilities of the situation and then making the decision.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 576, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'scrutiny'.
Suggestion: Scrutiny
...ir long-term supporters of the station; Close scrutiny of each of these facts, however, reveal...
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Line 5, column 512, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...his can be shown by the reason that not all of the listeners of the program send their fee...
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Line 7, column 332, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...as only talked about the complaints and doesnt give additional information on the new ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'may', 'really', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'third', 'thus', 'well', 'at least', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'in fact', 'such as', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.263622974963 0.25644967241 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.134020618557 0.15541462614 86% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0677466863034 0.0836205057962 81% => OK
Adverbs: 0.039764359352 0.0520304965353 76% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0294550810015 0.0272364105082 108% => OK
Prepositions: 0.138438880707 0.125424944231 110% => OK
Participles: 0.0456553755523 0.0416121511921 110% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.74706466333 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0250368188513 0.026700313972 94% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.173784977909 0.113004496875 154% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.019145802651 0.0255425247493 75% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0117820324006 0.0127820249294 92% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3669.0 2731.13054187 134% => OK
No of words: 632.0 446.07635468 142% => OK
Chars per words: 5.80537974684 6.12365571057 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01394158123 4.57801047555 110% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.324367088608 0.378187486979 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.261075949367 0.287650121315 91% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.162974683544 0.208842608468 78% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.107594936709 0.135150697306 80% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74706466333 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 207.018472906 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.379746835443 0.469332199767 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 46.1011699117 52.1807786196 88% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.039408867 105% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0952380952 23.2022227129 130% => OK
Sentence length SD: 120.631464027 57.7814097925 209% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 174.714285714 141.986410481 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0952380952 23.2022227129 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.952380952381 0.724660767414 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 56.2028330319 51.9672348444 108% => OK
Elegance: 2.20289855072 1.8405768891 120% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.426580702107 0.441005458295 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.20403253257 0.135418324435 151% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.107858804726 0.0829849096947 130% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.707477976386 0.58762219726 120% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.147679302524 0.147661913831 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.225982691073 0.193483328276 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.093291740142 0.0970749176394 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.691576275628 0.42659136922 162% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.115899270678 0.0774707102158 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.328030743078 0.312017818177 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0828849625277 0.0698173142475 119% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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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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