"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.
The assumptions of the manager of WWAC radio station are written in the memo about changing radio format to the news and talk format sounds illogically convincing with several reasons. The manager ignored important information and some questions needed to be answered in order to decide that the recommendation is likely to have predicted result.
First, relies in the fact that listener numbers of WWAC have declined, the author infers that audiences do not like rock-music format. However, it is not necessarily the case. People may do not like to listen to the rock-music in radio, because this kind of program has a low quality. Hence, people tend to use internet channels which provide better quality. Without considering this possible scenario, the author can not justifiably conclude that people do not like listen the radio because of rock-music format.
Second, the author provides no assurance that the survey on which the argument depends is reliable. It is quite possible this decreasing of sales was less percentage of all sales, so the survey cannot confirm the director’s conclusion. In addition, the prices may be high at local music stores or people have low income, so they tend more to listen to music in radio instead purchasing music from stores. Moreover, the local music stores may have a little variation of music so they cannot cover people’s demands. Since, the author ignore this possible factors, he can not conclude people are not interest in music.
In the third place, the soundness of the conclusion that news and talk format can attract more listener should be answered by the manager. There is no evidence to show that people’s interested in talk format is more that that of the music format. In short, since the argument relies on limited information, I cannot take the author’s final conclusion seriously.
In sum, the argument is rationally flawed and therefore unconvincing as it stands. To strengthen the argument, the author must provide more statistical information of age of population growth. In order to evaluate better the recommendation, we need to know all effective factors decrease the number of listeners and sales music at local stores.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: that
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Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'third', 'in addition', 'in short', 'kind of', 'in the third place']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.272946859903 0.25644967241 106% => OK
Verbs: 0.147342995169 0.15541462614 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0845410628019 0.0836205057962 101% => OK
Adverbs: 0.048309178744 0.0520304965353 93% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0193236714976 0.0272364105082 71% => OK
Prepositions: 0.125603864734 0.125424944231 100% => OK
Participles: 0.0265700483092 0.0416121511921 64% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.82013917773 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0314009661836 0.026700313972 118% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.106280193237 0.113004496875 94% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0265700483092 0.0255425247493 104% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00724637681159 0.0127820249294 57% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2217.0 2731.13054187 81% => OK
No of words: 358.0 446.07635468 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.19273743017 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.57801047555 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.418994413408 0.378187486979 111% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.287709497207 0.287650121315 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.206703910615 0.208842608468 99% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.131284916201 0.135150697306 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82013917773 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 207.018472906 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502793296089 0.469332199767 107% => OK
Word variations: 53.1796732267 52.1807786196 102% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 19.8888888889 23.2022227129 86% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.3053697871 57.7814097925 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.166666667 141.986410481 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8888888889 23.2022227129 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.833333333333 0.724660767414 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 48.6598386096 51.9672348444 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.97752808989 1.8405768891 107% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276268079958 0.441005458295 63% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.122954820184 0.135418324435 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0862678759341 0.0829849096947 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.583842787989 0.58762219726 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.148196234133 0.147661913831 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117436258659 0.193483328276 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0607744135351 0.0970749176394 63% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.406282288474 0.42659136922 95% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0496370049229 0.0774707102158 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187888646468 0.312017818177 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0312161670054 0.0698173142475 45% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.87684729064 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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