"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 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 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 wi 54
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: 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.
Error: alloted Suggestion: allowed
Error: news Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: particualar Suggestion: particular
Error: cancelled Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: In conclusion, the managers decision to restore back to orginal alloted timing is unconvincing as it stands.
Error: alloted Suggestion: allowed
Error: orginal Suggestion: original
Sentence: In order to better evaluate the argument, more information regarding the exact number and content of complaints recieved is required.
Error: recieved Suggestion: received
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argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not OK. Need to argue against the conclusion always. For this topic it is:
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.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 364 350
No. of Characters: 1878 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.368 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.159 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.698 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.267 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.781 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.376 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.621 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.104 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 125, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...uld have resulted in the loss of revenue ,the authors argument does not make a cog...
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Line 1, column 131, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ve resulted in the loss of revenue ,the authors argument does not make a cogent case fo...
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Line 1, column 340, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...d were regarding weather andl local news . However the author relies upon a number...
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Line 1, column 343, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ere regarding weather andl local news . However the author relies upon a number of douo...
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Line 3, column 8, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...nd is therefore unconvincing. Firstly,the author reports that the late-night news...
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Line 3, column 147, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ecreased time for local and weather news .And during this time the complaints from...
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Line 3, column 149, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: And
...reased time for local and weather news .And during this time the complaints from vi...
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Line 3, column 465, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...tic information on the local news. Hence , due to lack of complete information and...
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Line 5, column 171, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'particular news'.
Suggestion: particular news
...cause of the change in time alloted for a particular news. There is no concrete connection betwee...
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Line 7, column 98, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...er of complaints that have been received .These complaints could be only from 2 or...
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Line 7, column 100, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: These
... of complaints that have been received .These complaints could be only from 2 or 3 pe...
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Line 7, column 197, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , There
...ce does not represent the majority. Also,There could have been no change in the total ...
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Line 9, column 259, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... in contracts by the advertising company . In order to better evaluate the argumen...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, regarding, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, while, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1919.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 362.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30110497238 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7821995373 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.466850828729 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 591.3 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.7866144649 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.933333333 119.503703932 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1333333333 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.26666666667 5.70786347227 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348785255245 0.218282227539 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128522769289 0.0743258471296 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.130581397847 0.0701772020484 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197016431461 0.128457276422 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.146395060777 0.0628817314937 233% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.