Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled 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 our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs.
it might seem axiomatic that devoting to weather and local news more is crucial to gather more viewers and avoid additional advertising revenues. To justify this argument, author cites that majority of complaints were about the concern regarding truncation of weather and local news, and recent cancellation of advertisement contract. While supporting the proposal, however, author makes several assumptions that cannot be taken for granted.
As a threshold matter, the argument hastily assumes that recent cancellation of advertisement contract was caused by the truncation of weather and local news. Although this might be the case, it is possible that the economical difficulty of the advertisement corporation or the national economical crisis might occur the cancellation. In this regard, restoring such length of the news cannot make any changes to the inclination of the other advertisement company, so that it cannot help to avoid losing any further advertising revenues. therefore, in order to bolster the argument, author should provide more informations about the precise reasons regarding the cancellation of the contract.
even conceding that the length of the local and weather news influenced advertisement company to cancel the contract, the author unfairly posits that people want local and weather news than national news just because the majority of complaints were about the truncation of the local and weather news. perhaps, people who complained are not enough that the poll might be unreliable. Or probably, there are many people who want to national news, but they did not complained after the length of national news had reduced. this might be a plausible circumstance, since when people who want national news notice that it had been reduced, they can just turn another channel in order to watch national news, but people who want weather and local news cannot just turn the other channel if there are not enough channels for the local news. In this case, restoring national news cannot make any difference to the total viewers of the channel. Hence, in order to make the argument more plausible, author should provide an additional and reliable survey to support the argument.
Finally, the argument is still dubious in that it relies on an unfair assumption: by solving the problem regarding to complaints, they can attract more viewers. this might be the case, however, solving the problem and attracting more viewers are two different matters. perhaps, original viewers might cut the channel right after they noticed that the channel truncated the local and weather news. probably, original viewers will not know the difference even after the channel restore the length of the weather and local news. Thus, author should provide plausible reason that restoring length of such news can attract more viewers.
To sum, since numerous assumptions that are unwarranted are applied to this argument, it remains fragile in its form. therefore, additional explanations regarding these assumptions should be provided.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 476 350
No. of Characters: 2508 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.671 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.269 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.652 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 197 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 155 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 34 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 23.259 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.417 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.622 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
it might seem axiomatic that devoting to w...
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...ns that cannot be taken for granted. As a threshold matter, the argument hast...
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Line 5, column 288, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
...vertisement corporation or the national economical crisis might occur the cancellation. In...
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Line 5, column 538, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
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Suggestion: Therefore
...osing any further advertising revenues. therefore, in order to bolster the argument, auth...
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...ng the cancellation of the contract. even conceding that the length of the lo...
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...e cancellation of the contract. even conceding that the length of the local ...
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Suggestion: Perhaps
...uncation of the local and weather news. perhaps, people who complained are not enough t...
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Line 9, column 462, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'complain'
Suggestion: complain
...want to national news, but they did not complained after the length of national news had r...
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...he length of national news had reduced. this might be a plausible circumstance, sinc...
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...able survey to support the argument. Finally, the argument is still dubious i...
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...plaints, they can attract more viewers. this might be the case, however, solving the...
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...more viewers are two different matters. perhaps, original viewers might cut the channel...
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Suggestion: Probably
...l truncated the local and weather news. probably, original viewers will not know the dif...
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... such news can attract more viewers. To sum, since numerous assumptions that ...
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Suggestion: Therefore
...gument, it remains fragile in its form. therefore, additional explanations regarding thes...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, however, if, regarding, so, still, therefore, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2595.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 476.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45168067227 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67091256922 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73157962688 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.394957983193 0.468620217663 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 783.0 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.7987458752 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.75 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.9 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 15.0 5.25449101796 285% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243117590394 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.086924773771 0.0743258471296 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0820057242905 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138456653154 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0838915303797 0.0628817314937 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 12.5979740519 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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