Two years ago, radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number of call-in advice programs that it broadcast; since that time, its share of the radio audience in the Rockville listening area has increased significantly. Given WCQP's recent success with call-in advice programming, and citing a nationwide survey indicating that many radio listeners are quite interested in such programs, the station manager of KICK in Medway recommends that KICK include more call-in advice programs in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation
In the letter, the station manager of KICK in Medway recommends that KICK include more call-in advice programs to substantiate an audience share in its listening area. Although the recommendation seems convincing at first, the answered questions lead readers to conclude that the recommendation is fat-fetched in many aspects.
First, the author must provide the answer to the question whether there is a causation between the success of WCQP in Rockville studio and the increased number of call-in advice programs. It is possible that the increased audience share was not due to the call-in advice programs, but other external factors that happened to be coincident with the increase of the number of call-in advice programs. For example, the collapse of other competing radio station might possibly have resulted in the increase of the audience share of the WCQP station. The author must clarify whether these possible alternative pieces of scenario could be extirpated.
Second, more answers are needed on whether the success of the WCQP radio station is not an aberration but a sustainable long-term effect. As evinced in the recommendation, it has only been two-years since the WCQP radio station decided to increase the number of call-in advice programs. However, even though the aforementioned alluded causation is valid, it is also questionable whether the success of WQCP question will continue. Therefore, the effect of those programs on the audience share should be considered in the long run.
Last but not least, the author should also answer the question whether the intrinsic conditions between WCQP and KICK are the same. For instance, the location that each station broadcast is different from each other, and this geographical difference between those two stations can lead to the difference in the propensity of their audiences. It is possible that the audiences of the KICK station might not like, if not abhor, to listen call-in advice program, unlike those of the WCQP station or the respondents of the nationwide survey introduced in the recommendation.
In conclusion, the argument is unconvincing because of the lack of answers to the question of the validity of the causation between the success of the WCQP station and the increased number of call-in advice programs, the long-term effect of call-in programs on the success of the WCQP station, and the congruence of the inherent conditions of the two stations. Therefore, the author should elaborate his argument by answering these questions.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 401 350
No. of Characters: 2081 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.475 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.19 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.791 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 172 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 139 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.733 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.428 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.389 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.598 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 46, Rule ID: WHETHER[5]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "the question"?
Suggestion: whether
..., the author must provide the answer to the question whether there is a causation between the succes...
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Line 2, column 458, Rule ID: MIGHT_PERHAPS[1]
Message: Use simply 'might', 'possibly'.
Suggestion: might; possibly
...llapse of other competing radio station might possibly have resulted in the increase of the au...
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Line 2, column 458, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'might'.
Suggestion: might
...llapse of other competing radio station might possibly have resulted in the increase of the au...
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Line 4, column 51, Rule ID: WHETHER[5]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "the question"?
Suggestion: whether
...ot least, the author should also answer the question whether the intrinsic conditions between WCQP a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion
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 : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 33.0 16.3942115768 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2126.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 401.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30174563591 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86794752011 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.431421446384 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
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: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.0395840891 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.733333333 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7333333333 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.26666666667 5.70786347227 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.381141046372 0.218282227539 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135583456074 0.0743258471296 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119028772904 0.0701772020484 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213904528124 0.128457276422 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677645186761 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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