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 argument says that there are many complaints regarding the television late-night programs. However, the argument from business manager has made many unstated fallacies to evaluate his statement. There is not much evidence in the statement which supports the conclusion of the argument.
Firstly, the most important thing which needs to be evaluated is the number of complaints that the television station has recieved from their viewers. The argument doesn't provide any numbers about the complaints recieved. Some people may be happy about the news which they are broadcasting. Or some particular group or set of people might have complained more than once. There is no exact numbers or staticstics about the complaints recieved.
Secondly, the argument makes assumption about the cancellation of the advertisement contract which was telecasting during late-night programs. This may be true according to the argument, but, it can't be solely depend upon the change in views of the people. The advertising board might have suffered a severe loss in recent times or some catastrophie might have happen within advertising board which is leading them to cancel the contract. The argument is making unnecessary assumption that it is related to the viewership of their programs.
Thirdly, the news is always contingent upon the importance of content in it. There may not be major events occured locally compared to national events in the country. If there are any abberations in the weather which needs immediate attention of the viewers, then the weather news can be telecasted. There are many other sources where the people can get weather updates about their locality. The importance has to be given for the most trending news occuring over the country whether it may be local or nation-wide. Because of fewer complaints there is no need to change plans.
Therefore, the arguments rests upon unstated assumptions and it is clearly flawed in providing evidences. There are not much evidences in the argument that why television programs should be restored to their former versions.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Firstly, the most important thing which needs to be evaluated is the number of complaints that the television station has recieved from their viewers.
Error: recieved Suggestion: received
Sentence: The argument doesn't provide any numbers about the complaints recieved.
Error: recieved Suggestion: received
Sentence: There is no exact numbers or staticstics about the complaints recieved.
Error: staticstics Suggestion: statistics
Error: recieved Suggestion: received
Sentence: The advertising board might have suffered a severe loss in recent times or some catastrophie might have happen within advertising board which is leading them to cancel the contract.
Error: catastrophie Suggestion: catastrophe
Sentence: There may not be major events occured locally compared to national events in the country.
Error: occured Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: If there are any abberations in the weather which needs immediate attention of the viewers, then the weather news can be telecasted.
Error: abberations Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: telecasted Suggestion: elected
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argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not exactly
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 332 350
No. of Characters: 1720 1500
No. of Different Words: 165 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.269 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.181 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.719 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.821 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.315 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 165, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...cieved from their viewers. The argument doesnt provide any numbers about the complaint...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 196, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...true according to the argument, but, it cant be solely depend upon the change in vie...
^^^^
Line 5, column 196, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
...true according to the argument, but, it cant be solely depend upon the change in vie...
^^^^
Line 5, column 362, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'happened'.
Suggestion: happened
...t times or some catastrophie might have happen within advertising board which is leadi...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 517, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...whether it may be local or nation-wide. Because of fewer complaints there is no need to...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 121, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...d in providing evidences. There are not much evidences in the argument that why tele...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1762.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 331.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32326283988 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79942909216 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.516616314199 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.3187648165 57.8364921388 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.1 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.55 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.143298922188 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0431012424991 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0371896923136 0.0701772020484 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0706837738786 0.128457276422 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0480277921863 0.0628817314937 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.28 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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.