Since those issues of Newsbeat magazine that featured political news on their front cover were the poorest-selling issues over the past three years, the publisher of Newsbeat has recommended that the magazine curtail its emphasis on politics to focus more exclusively on economics and personal finance. She points to a recent survey of readers of general interest magazines that indicates greater reader interest in economic issues than in political ones. Newsbeat's editor, however, opposes the proposed shift in editorial policy, pointing out that very few magazines offer extensive political coverage anymore.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
Merely based on the unfounded assumption and dubious evidence, the publisher of the Newsbeat magazine draws the conclusions that Newsbeat magazine should take shift in its editorial policy. To substantiate the conclusion, she points out the evidence that political news on front cover were the poorest-selling issues over the past three years. Furthermore, the publisher cites the result of a current survey to substantiate her recommendation. At the first glance, the argument may appear to be somewhat convincing, however, after carefully scrutinized, the argument lacks some essential concerns which should be addressed in the passage.
Firstly, the article describes the fact that featured political news on their front cover were the poorest-selling issue over the past three years. However, the publisher ignores that there has no casual correlations between political news and bad selling. In addition, many other factors could contribute to the bad selling, such as the bad outlook of the magazines, the content about the political news is not interesting enough to attract readers.
Secondly, the publisher suggests that magazines should focus more exclusively on economics and personal finance because of a recent survey of readers indicates that readers prefer economic issues than political ones. However, the poll cited by the article is too vague to be informative. The claim does not indicate who conducted the poll, who responded, or when, where and how the poll was conducted. (Lacking information about the number of people surveyed and the number of respondents, it is impossible to access the validity of the results. For example, if 200 persons were surveyed but only 2 responded, the conclusion that...would be highly suspect. Because the argument offers no evidence that would rule out this kind of interpretations,) Until these questions are answered, the results of the survey are worthless as evidence for the conclusion.
Thirdly, common sense informs us the magazine might not be capable to produce high quality articles about the economics after the shift. But the speaker might have been attempting to mislead us into believing that the Newsbeat magazine have such ability. Even if it is true that more readers prefer economic content than political ones. Unfortunately, this description could merely serve to strengthen one possibility but has failed to rule out other possibilities mentioned above.
To sum up, the passage fails to substantiate the claims that Newsbeat magazine need shift in its policy because the evidence cited in the analysis does not lend strong support to what argument maintains. To make the argument more convincing, A better investigation is therefore needed.
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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: 19 15
No. of Words: 423 350
No. of Characters: 2242 1500
No. of Different Words: 223 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.535 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.3 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.81 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 172 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 139 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.263 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.781 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.292 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.527 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 256, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[2]
Message: “Even if” 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.
...he Newsbeat magazine have such ability. Even if it is true that more readers prefer eco...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, for example, in addition, kind of, such as, it is true, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2308.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 422.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4691943128 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93904212271 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537914691943 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 720.0 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7458814397 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.473684211 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2105263158 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.36842105263 5.70786347227 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.338521507886 0.218282227539 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0946668279473 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.128554976691 0.0701772020484 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180178137663 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106480664995 0.0628817314937 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.5979740519 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 98.500998004 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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