The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
"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."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
It is stated that, due to decrease in time for weather and local news, complaints have increased amd also businesses have cancelled their advertising orders. Thus it is recommneded to restore to local news and weather timings to formal levels. But this argument is riddled with specific evidences, and plots, which need to be evaluated in order to strengthen the argument.
Starting with the assumption, that the complaints received from the viewers, concerning station's coverage of weather and local news. The evidence, of the complain being about the decrease in their timings is missing. It is not cleary evident that the complaints are about the decrease in show timings of weather and local news. What if the the complaints were actually about the quality of the local news or the topics covered by the local news, were not adequate? Also, it may be possible that the complaints are about the weather forecast not covering certain areas, which the vieweres were anticipating for? Thus these evidences need to evaluated, that these complaints were not concering these topics, but instead was regarding the short-timing allotted for the local and weather news.
Further , going into the argument, it is stated that the advertising orders by local businesses have cancelled. This argument is also not built on proper foundation as to the major reason concerning, why the local businesses' cancellation, is missing. There maybe a possibility, as to they maybe closing down due to the recession, or they may be moving to a new location, whose locality is not covered by the news channel. Also, they might have cancelled due to, the launch of a new news channel, which offers comparatively cheaper advertising pricing. The evidence, negating all these varied forms of options, and stating that the cancellation was due to low viewership due to reduction in local news and weather coverage timings, is needed in order to strengthen the arguments.
Also it isn't stated anything about the reason the viewers have stopped watching. it can be because of the new anchors, hired by th news channel within the same time preiod. And that people, might not like that specific news anchor, or missed the previous anchor, and hence the total viewership would have decreased. In this case, it would be of no concern to the local news or the weather news. Thus this evidence, of the direct correlation of the viewers interest in the weather news and local news, is needed to strengthen the argument.
Thus summing up it can be said that, the argument afore stated, is actually built on a quite porou foundation, lacking several main evidences. If these evidences not stated clearly would just weaken the argument. These evidences must be such that they clearly answer all the questions which arise, in a proper manner and instilling the correct notion for strengthening the arument, then and then only, the recommendation can also be evaluated.
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Essay evaluation report
last argument is wrong.
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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: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 485 350
No. of Characters: 2381 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.693 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.909 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.597 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.095 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.831 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.358 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.565 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.119 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 159, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ave cancelled their advertising orders. Thus it is recommneded to restore to local n...
^^^^
Line 5, column 151, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...eather and local news. The evidence, of the complain being about the decrease in their timin...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 337, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...ings of weather and local news. What if the the complaints were actually about the qual...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 337, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...ings of weather and local news. What if the the complaints were actually about the qual...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 612, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ich the vieweres were anticipating for? Thus these evidences need to evaluated, that...
^^^^
Line 9, column 8, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...the local and weather news. Further , going into the argument, it is stated t...
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Line 9, column 215, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'businesses'' or 'business's'?
Suggestion: businesses'; business's
... major reason concerning, why the local businesses cancellation, is missing. There maybe a...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...order to strengthen the arguments. Also it isnt stated anything about the reaso...
^^^^
Line 13, column 9, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
... strengthen the arguments. Also it isnt stated anything about the reason the vi...
^^^^
Line 13, column 82, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...ason the viewers have stopped watching. it can be because of the new anchors, hire...
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Line 13, column 396, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... to the local news or the weather news. Thus this evidence, of the direct correlatio...
^^^^
Line 17, column 144, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “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.
...dation, lacking several main evidences. If these evidences not stated clearly woul...
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Line 17, column 299, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a proper manner" with adverb for "proper"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...y answer all the questions which arise, in a proper manner and instilling the correct notion for s...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, if, may, regarding, so, still, then, thus, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2476.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 484.0 441.139720559 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11570247934 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69041575982 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69575308701 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.431818181818 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 745.2 705.55239521 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.67365269461 478% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6385200075 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.545454545 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.45454545455 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 18.0 6.88822355289 261% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.264876568582 0.218282227539 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103450126745 0.0743258471296 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.085848939983 0.0701772020484 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170704944783 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0953160901824 0.0628817314937 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 98.500998004 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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