The following is a memorandum from the business manager of WLSS television station.
“Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the station’s coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled 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 the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs.”
The business manager of a television station is arguing that they need to restore the time devoted to weather and local news which they have reduced from the past year.
The first reason that the manager was stating is that most of the complaints received currently were related to concerns with the coverage of weather and local news. To either strengthen or weaken this argument we need to know the total increase or decrease in the nunber of complaints related to the coverage of all types of news. While the number of complaints concerned with the coverage of weather and local the news have increased the number of complaints concerned with the coverage of national news might have reduced even further.
The manager also stated that the local businesses have cancelled their advertising contracts. We don't know for sure the reason behind this. It could be because of the introduction of newer types of platforms such as social media where the advertisements would be more effective compared to the advertisements in television. So, we need the relative count of advertisers from previous year to current year for not just for the late-night news of this particular station but also during other programs of this particular station and moreover for other television stations in general. From this data we can understand if the reason for decrease in the advertisers is the type of news coverage or not.
One more data point that would be helpful is the total viewer count during the late-night news. This would help us understand whether the viewers are actually interested in local and weather news or not.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-27 | yirtusemla | 50 | view |
| 2023-08-19 | riyarmy | 58 | view |
| 2023-07-19 | LAGADAPATI VINAY | 55 | view |
| 2022-09-23 | Tanvayee15 | 33 | view |
| 2022-08-23 | Miyagi | 55 | view |
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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: 11 15
No. of Words: 272 350
No. of Characters: 1327 1500
No. of Different Words: 129 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.061 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.879 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.623 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 89 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 75 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.727 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.136 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.391 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.623 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.199 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 98, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ncelled their advertising contracts. We dont know for sure the reason behind this. I...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, moreover, so, then, while, in general, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1355.0 2260.96107784 60% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 271.0 441.139720559 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62619176992 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 204.123752495 63% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472324723247 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 417.6 705.55239521 59% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6703369905 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.181818182 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6363636364 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.09090909091 5.70786347227 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.322771297485 0.218282227539 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126928736535 0.0743258471296 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0900146113771 0.0701772020484 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.218351292906 0.128457276422 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0754539158591 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 98.500998004 55% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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