'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 time 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 just canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.”
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence would be needed in order to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The memorandum from the business manager of a television station concludes that it would restore the time allocated for the local news and weather forecasting in the late-night news program in order to avoid losing further revenue. The conclusion is based on the following claims. First, Majority of the complaints received during the time slot of the late-night show are from the viewers were about the station's coverage of weather and local news. Second, the local businesses have stopped showing their advertisement during the late-night show. The claim has many loopholes which are discussed further.
First and the foremast, Talking about the cancellation of the contract by the local
businesses. The contracts would be cancelled because the shows air at late-night so, the audience viewing the commercials would less be compared to that during the day time. Due to which it would not be profitable for local businesses to show their commercials at late-night. It is not related to local news and weather.
Furthermore, Talking about the complaint related to weather and local news received during the time slot of the late-night show. It would be that the quality of the local news and weather would not be that efficient or it may not be focused well to its local audience. Also, it could be that complaints would be about local news and weather air at another time of the day and the complaint was filed in this slot. So, this also does not prove efficiently that the reduction in the time has led to a decrease in the revenue.
To sum up, the claims on which the conclusion is made by the business manager of the television station do not justify the conclusion properly and has various loopholes. So, it would not be a good idea to again restore the time for local news and weather.
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Comments
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: 16 15
No. of Words: 307 350
No. of Characters: 1460 1500
No. of Different Words: 122 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.186 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.756 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.603 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 91 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 83 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.188 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.508 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.389 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.578 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 405, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...how are from the viewers were about the stations coverage of weather and local news. Sec...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Businesses
...ellation of the contract by the local businesses. The contracts would be cancelled becau...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, if, may, second, so, well, talking about, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1504.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 307.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8990228013 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64463822542 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 204.123752495 64% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.42345276873 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 455.4 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8475899339 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.266666667 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4666666667 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13333333333 5.70786347227 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.20758483034 0% => 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: 0.379422239319 0.218282227539 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15396506513 0.0743258471296 207% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113479457117 0.0701772020484 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.21803899308 0.128457276422 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.122088924644 0.0628817314937 194% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 98.500998004 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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