"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."
While it may be true that the decrease in time devoted for local news and weather would have resulted in the loss of revenue ,the author's argument does not make a cogent case for deciding if the loss is only because of alloting lesser duration for local news. The manager says the complaints received were regarding weather andl local news . However the author relies upon a number of douobtful assumptions and is therefore unconvincing.
Firstly,the author reports that the late-night news program has increased its time for national news and decreased time for local and weather news .And during this time the complaints from viewers were more regarding coverage of weather news. However, the scope and validity of these complaints is questionable. The complaints could have been because of other reasons such as the accuracy of weather report or lack of authentic information on the local news. Hence , due to lack of complete information and details we cannot conclude that the complaints were purely concerned with the time duration of weather and local news.
Additionally, the manager says that the advertising companies have cancelled their contracts with this particualar news channel because of the change in time alloted for a particular news. There is no concrete connection between the cancellation of advertising contracts and the time allotment for some news. The advertising agency could have found other stations telecasting their adds for a cheaper rate and hence decided to cancel their contract with this particular channel.
Thirdly, there is no information regarding the exact number of complaints that have been received .These complaints could be only from 2 or 3 people and hence does not represent the majority. Also,There could have been no change in the total complaints regarding the weather and local news before and after the change in timings.
In conclusion, the managers decision to restore back to orginal alloted timing is unconvincing as it stands. To strengthen the argument the author must provide evidence that there is no other cause for the cancellation in contracts by the advertising company . In order to better evaluate the argument, more information regarding the exact number and content of complaints recieved is required.
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- "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 wit 77
- "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 wit 63
- "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 wi 54
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, so, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1913.0 2235.4752809 86% => OK
No of words: 382.0 442.535393258 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00785340314 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65364684686 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557591623037 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 611.1 704.065955056 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.0950085384 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.533333333 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4666666667 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86666666667 5.21951772744 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 21.0 7.80617977528 269% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182642830648 0.243740707755 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061265779199 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0458716661363 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107308504316 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0202275333871 0.0667264976115 30% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 100.480337079 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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.