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 is needed to evaluate the
argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The memorandum from the business manager states that the television station should restore the time devoted to weather and local news in their late-night news program to its former level, to attract more viewers and avoid losing any further advertising revenues. However, the argument seems flawed on the basis of the following three reasons.
Firstly, the manager assumes that the audience for the show is still loyal to the television station. What it implies is, he assumes that as soon as they restore the time to their former levels, the viewing numbers will go up as the once dissatisfied audience will return to watch the program again. But there is a great possibility that the audience, disappointed with the news program over the year, might have switched over to some other rival stations' news programs that provided increased coverage of the local and weather news. This means, even if the times are restored, they might be unwilling to switch over from their newly adopted news program.
Secondly, the manager assumes that the local businesses will not cancel their contracts with the station if they restore the times of local and weather news. But there is a chance that as other television stations continue to grow in popularity due to their broadcast of local news, these companies as well might be tempted to sign a contract with those news channels which have increased local viewership that will help them achieve more publicity of the advertised product. Simply restoring their weather and local news times won't immediately attract a large number of local viewership and so the local companies might as well be better off signing their contracts with some other news companies which have gained popularity among the masses for providing quality local news because of the poor performance of the former.
Third, the manager assumes that restoring local news times might attract more viewers. But it assumes that the current audience, which it has built over the past year, that loves its presentation of national news, will also be willing to watch the local news. There is a great possibility that the current viewers who enjoy the program for providing reliable national news coverage, might not like it if the time of national news is decreased and local news increased. They might tend to switch to other channels which will provide better national news then. So the motive with which the times were restored, that is to attract more viewers, might backfire and instead decrease their current audience who loves their delivery of national news.
So the argument, in its current state is flawed and does not provide a clear solution to the problems the television station is facing. If we could have more evidence on the viewership numbers of rival news stations over the past year, the local companies advertising contracts with the television station, and the current audience of the station, we could evaluate the situation better and provide a better solution to tackle the problem of decreased viewership numbers and termination of advertising contracts.
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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: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 508 350
No. of Characters: 2538 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.748 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.996 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.418 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 175 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 150 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.459 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.875 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.415 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.63 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.191 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 554, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...cal news times wont immediately attract a large number of local viewership and so the local compa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2589.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 507.0 441.139720559 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10650887574 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74517233601 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46680201416 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.392504930966 0.468620217663 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 785.7 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.2544519462 57.8364921388 158% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.8125 119.503703932 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.6875 23.324526521 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.375 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.440959343727 0.218282227539 202% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.182316647507 0.0743258471296 245% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106041135532 0.0701772020484 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.285709061908 0.128457276422 222% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0859152158485 0.0628817314937 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.95 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.