“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.
The author of this proposal to prolong the time for weather and local news to its former level made an interesting argument but still defective. The author believes that if the manager of this televesion station did so, the viewer to the program would increase and the revenue from advertising would stop declining. That sounds plausible while the evidence the author listed were not relative enough to bolster this claim. The reason are as follows.
To begin with, the proposer claimed that during the period of new time schedule of the late-night program, the television station received large amount of viewer’s complaints to the coverage of weather and local news by presenting the fact that most of the complaints are related to this. But the evidence is vague and lack of detail. The amount of the complaints is unknown. If there are few viewers complained about this arrangement, it is absurd to say that this new adaption isn’t reasonable. Instead, it is successful for just getting minor disagreement.
What’s more, the writer assumed that the change in late-night news program will decrease the income from advertising by mentioning the dwindling advertising contracts with local business, which is ,however, of low relevance to what the author tried to convince the manager. The advertising corporation with local businesses are just part of the income of advertising, there are many sources for the tv station to choose, which were overlooked by the author. Losing the support of local business dosen’t necessarily lead to the reduce of revenue. If the oversea company love this program and are willing to reach an agreement with tv station and put lots of advertisement into this time period, the influence of losing local businesses would be negligible.
Last but now least, the time arrangement may not be the radical reason for this unpromising consequence. The success of a program, relies on varies of factors, and the length of time is not a decisive one. Why not considering the quality of the national news instead of blaming the manager for change the previous status. Change means innovation, that can bring new possibility of a promising future. If the tv station grasp the opportunity to improve the content of national news, this program will also arrest audience’s attention and win more advertising revenue.
In conclusion, this proposal is tenuous and need more thorough consideration. More detail is needed to justify the claim.
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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: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 404 350
No. of Characters: 2013 1500
No. of Different Words: 203 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.483 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.983 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.684 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.591 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.267 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.267 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.043 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 197, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... contracts with local business, which is ,however, of low relevance to what the au...
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Line 3, column 523, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...al business dosen’t necessarily lead to the reduce of revenue. If the oversea company love...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, still, while, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2073.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 402.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15671641791 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79570229778 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512437810945 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 639.0 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.666274846 57.8364921388 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.65 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.344166718204 0.218282227539 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0843387828737 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0980378994956 0.0701772020484 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.178234463591 0.128457276422 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0951643483217 0.0628817314937 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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