The following appeared in a memorandum from the manager of WWAC radio station.
"To reverse a decline in listener numbers, our owners have decided that WWAC must change from its current rock-music format. The decline has occurred despite population growth in our listening area, but that growth has resulted mainly from people moving here after their retirement. We must make listeners of these new residents. We could switch to a music format tailored to their tastes, but a continuing decline in local sales of recorded music suggests limited interest in music. Instead we should change to a news and talk format, a form of radio that is increasingly popular in our area."
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 manager attributes their loss in listeners to their radio to the effete trend of music, and he suggest that they would get more subscribers if they change to other genres, such as news and talks. However, evidence are wanting before reaching to such assertion.
While the manager inplied that the decreasing subscribers are only due to the music is less popular, when claiming that total population are growing. However, they lost their interest is only one possibility, while the shrinkage amout of people using radios is a more realistic explaination. Becuase the rapid development of television and computer and they are much more attractive to most of the people, many previous listeners changed from using radio to using computer games, therefore, the argument would be weakened if this evidence are found.
The second place demanding evidence is the preference of the new retired residents, who contribute mostly the growth population, becuase managers want to get their subscribtion. The manager tried to justify that they did not enjoy music by pointing out the dropping sale of local music records, but the causality is untenable becuase people may just download must online instead of purchasing it at the stores. If there are further evidence suggests that those new residents prefer music more than news and talks, then the argument would would be more unsound.
Lastly, we still need further investigation on the toall effect of changing the type of WWAC, as they will loss some subscribtions from music lovers meanwhile get some additional listener who like talk or news. As the change in listeners are contute by those two parts if the loss is outweighted by the gain from the changing to news and talk, the argument is weaken then. On contrary, if there are reports stating that the new subscribers is much more than those who will no longer listen to this radio due to switching to talk and news, the argument is augmented.
In conclusion, there are still need more evidence on at least three aspects, and the conclusion drawn without valid evidence would be untenable.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 12 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 347 350
No. of Characters: 1708 1500
No. of Different Words: 177 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.316 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.922 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.523 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 111 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.917 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.779 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 1 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.371 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.655 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 100, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'suggests'.
Suggestion: suggests
...io to the effete trend of music, and he suggest that they would get more subscribers if...
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Line 1, column 219, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...ch as news and talks. However, evidence are wanting before reaching to such assertion. W...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 533, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: would
... than news and talks, then the argument would would be more unsound. Lastly, we still ne...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 361, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'weakened'.
Suggestion: weakened
...nging to news and talk, the argument is weaken then. On contrary, if there are reports...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 32, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'needed'.
Suggestion: needed
...nted. In conclusion, there are still need more evidence on at least three aspects...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, lastly, may, second, so, still, then, therefore, while, at least, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1756.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 347.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06051873199 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61613699522 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521613832853 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.3053798476 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.333333333 119.503703932 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.9166666667 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.83333333333 5.70786347227 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142874802631 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0546836215178 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0398397459847 0.0701772020484 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0746675621634 0.128457276422 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0439540725845 0.0628817314937 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.66 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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