The author argues that over the past year, the television station's decision to devote more time to national news and less time to weather and local news has led to some adverse effects, such as complaints received from viewers on coverage of local and weather news. In addition, the author states that local business that used to advertise during the late-night news program have stopped to do so. As this would inevitably lead to loss of revenue, the author suggest to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. However, the authors argument sounds unpersuasive due to lack of specific evidence which can corroborate his story.
First, the complaints received by viewers on the televisions station's coverage of weather and local news needs to be carefully studied to assert whether these complainants convey their discontent due to removal of weather and local news for late-night news programs. It might be that the complaints received, concerned with weather and local news, deal with some sort of erroneous reporting that the news station has broadacsted during this period. It might also be that the local and weather news that this television station has reported during the day time is also very trivial and hence the complaints arise out of the people's discontent in the station's overall attitude in dedicating less time to these news, not just for the late-night news program.
Second, the author suggests that local business that used to advertise during the late-night news program have canceled their business contracts. The evidence as to why such cancellation took place is nowhere presented and hence the remedial method that devoting more time to weather and local news in the late-night news program will bring these businesses back, is questionable. It might be that the local businesses did not see much profit in investing into advertisements for the late-night program which did not have a significant number of viewers. In such a case, the news presented during the late-night program, whether it is national or local or weather news, has no correlation with the local businesses motif for advertisements and hence the author's suggestion to increase the local and weather news time to former levels, is unlikely to yield any results.
Furthermore, evidence that local and weather news attract more viewers needs to be presented, in order to corroborate his statement that "in order to attract more viewers to the program", local and weather news time should be increased. If viewers are more inclined towards national news then such an increase will likely result in loss of viewership rather than an increase. The author should present specific evidence how his opinion that local and weather news attract more people holds relevant and true to the case of this specific television station.
In conclusion, it may be true that the television station's loss of revenue arising out of local businesses cancelling advertisement contracts and the complaints concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news all necessitate more dedicated time to local and weather news. However, as in stands now, the author's argument stands unpersuasive due to lack of evidence on how the complaints on the station's coverage of local and weather news pertains to discontent of the people due to removal of such news form the late-night program. In order to futher evaluate his argument, evidence on why cancellation of the advertisement contracts took place in the first place is needed and how more screen time is likely to bring back these and attract more viewers, also needs to be ascertained.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 595 350
No. of Characters: 3011 1500
No. of Different Words: 203 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.939 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.061 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.663 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 217 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 180 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 118 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 73 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 35 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.944 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.824 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.468 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.641 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.177 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 460, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggest restoring'.
Suggestion: suggest restoring
...bly lead to loss of revenue, the author suggest to restore the time devoted to weather and local n...
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Line 1, column 556, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... news to its former level. However, the authors argument sounds unpersuasive due to lac...
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Line 3, column 703, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this news' or 'these newses'?
Suggestion: this news; these newses
...all attitude in dedicating less time to these news, not just for the late-night news progr...
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Line 5, column 705, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'businesses'' or 'business's'?
Suggestion: businesses'; business's
...news, has no correlation with the local businesses motif for advertisements and hence the ...
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Line 5, column 755, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... motif for advertisements and hence the authors suggestion to increase the local and we...
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Line 7, column 248, 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.
... weather news time should be increased. If viewers are more inclined towards natio...
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Line 9, column 181, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...s and the complaints concerned with the stations coverage of weather and local news all ...
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Line 9, column 319, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...er news. However, as in stands now, the authors argument stands unpersuasive due to lac...
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Line 9, column 409, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...f evidence on how the complaints on the stations coverage of local and weather news pert...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, so, then, as to, in addition, in conclusion, sort of, such as, in the first place
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 : 25.0 11.1786427146 224% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 55.5748502994 149% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3070.0 2260.96107784 136% => OK
No of words: 595.0 441.139720559 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15966386555 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93888872473 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71828879822 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.361344537815 0.468620217663 77% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 946.8 705.55239521 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 35.0 22.8473053892 153% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.0541509666 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 180.588235294 119.503703932 151% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.0 23.324526521 150% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23529411765 5.70786347227 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => 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: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.525768273252 0.218282227539 241% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.227418323877 0.0743258471296 306% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.129489639485 0.0701772020484 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.36566000839 0.128457276422 285% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0953992672523 0.0628817314937 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.4 14.3799401198 142% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.95 48.3550499002 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.9 12.197005988 139% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.24 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 98.500998004 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 11.1389221557 144% => 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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