“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 local and weather news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news programs have just cancelled 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 is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The writer's argument seemed logical at first glace, however the conclusion relies on assumptions for which there is no strong and clear evidence and data.
The writer confirmed that the time devoted for national news increased over the time allocated for weather and local news leading to complaints from viewers and cancellation of advertising contracts.
Firstly, the writer laid emphasis on complaints from viewers about the reduced coverage of weather and local news, but failed to state the allocated time for each news category for analysis. There is no clear information on the number of viewers that made complaints in relation to the total numbesr of viewers per news categories. How do we know the percentage of complaints to the total number of viewers?
Additionally, the writer stated that local businesses cancelled their advertiding contracts but he did not include the reasons why they cancelled. How many local businessses advertises with the news station? How many business cancelled their contracts? Where is the data showing the percentage of businesses that cancelled due to change in time devoted to national news ? How did the writer conclude they camcelled because the news coverage on weather and local news reduced?
Lastly, the writer concluded that in order to attract more viewers to the program, there would be need to retore the time devoted to weather and local news. How did the writer arrive at this conclusion when rhere is no eveidence showing the number of viewers prior the time increment and no data ssupporting this claim?
How does the writer assumes that restoring the time chnage fpr the local and weather news would increase the numer of viewers?
The writers argument would be strengthened considerably if he can provide evidences showing the direct relationshio betweem the change in time allocation of the news coverage and reduction in the numer of viewers.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 16 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 308 350
No. of Characters: 1572 1500
No. of Different Words: 136 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.189 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.104 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.623 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.883 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.357 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.428 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.694 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.219 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
The writers argument seemed logical at first glace,...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...cancellation of advertising contracts. Firstly, the writer laid emphasis on com...
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Line 4, column 320, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...to the total numbesr of viewers per news categories. How do we know the percentag...
^^
Line 6, column 38, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... Additionally, the writer stated that local businesses cancelled their advert...
^^
Line 6, column 56, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the writer stated that local businesses cancelled their advertiding contracts bu...
^^
Line 6, column 216, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun business seems to be countable; consider using: 'many businesses'.
Suggestion: many businesses
...s advertises with the news station? How many business cancelled their contracts? Where is the...
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Line 8, column 12, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r and local news reduced? Lastly, the writer concluded that in order to attrac...
^^
Line 9, column 22, Rule ID: DOES_NP_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'assume'?
Suggestion: assume
...rting this claim? How does the writer assumes that restoring the time chnage fpr the ...
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Line 10, column 6, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...ld increase the numer of viewers? The writers argument would be strengthened consider...
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Line 10, column 57, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ument would be strengthened considerably if he can provide evidences showing the ...
^^
Line 10, column 156, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...io betweem the change in time allocation of the news coverage and reduction in th...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.6327345309 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1611.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 308.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23051948052 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68228764338 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.464285714286 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 494.1 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4250618077 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.071428571 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.57142857143 5.70786347227 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.399364886587 0.218282227539 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.166255597115 0.0743258471296 224% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120495419304 0.0701772020484 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222030057424 0.128457276422 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121971154129 0.0628817314937 194% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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