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 passage claims that after changing the form of the late-night program by reducing the time dedicated to weather and local news, complaints were received from the customers and several local businesses canceled their advertising contracts. Thus, the television station should increasing the time dedicated to weather and local news to alleviate the conditions. The argument put forth by the manager of the television station is rife with unbacked assumptions and flaws. After considering these shortcomings, the conclusion that the manager makes does not have enough backing, thus making the argument weak and unconvincing.
First, the passage assumes that the complaints received from viewers concerning the station's coverage of weather and local news were that the amount of coverage done by the station. After assuming this, the manager suggests the solution to increase the amount of such type of news to decrease viewer complaints. However, this assumption is not backed by any information. If the manager had mentioned that the complaints were actually demands to increase the weather and local news coverage, this shortcoming could have been avoided. But as this information was not given in the passage, the complaints could have been regarding the abysmal quality of the local news and weather. The station could have hired a new reporter whose style of reporting was not liked by the viewers. Thus, if the station listened to the manager's request and increased the coverage of local news and weather, the station could lose customers instead of increasing the viewers.
Second, the author also assumes that the cancellation of advertising contracts was due to the change in the program. This statement does not have any evidence in the passage. This evidence could have been provided in the form of a excerpt from a letter one of the businesses sent the television station which said that they are cancelling their contract due to decrease in the coverage of local news. If such an evidence were provided, it could be justified that increasing the amount of local news and weather covered would lead to continuing of the advertising contracts and it would avoid any further loss of advertising revenues. However, as no such evidence was provided, the cancellation of the contracts could have been due to a different reason, that maybe a competitor station was showing advertisments at much lower rates. In such a case, increasing the amount of local news and weather covered during the late-night news would not have any effect on the advertising revenues, thus, refuting the conclusion.
Finally, the statement that increasing the time devoted to weather and local news would help attract more viewers is without any support. There is no evidence that the number of viewers has fallen due to decrease in time devoted to weather and local news. The passage does say that numerous complaints have been received, however, there is no indication that the number of viewers reduced. If the argument included a statement which said that some dissatisfied viewers stopped watching the station, increasing the time for covering weather and local news could have attracted these previous viewers back to their station. However, it is entirely possible that inspite of many complaints, no viewer stopped watching the station; thus, increasing the amount of coverage would not have any effect on the number of viewers.
Due to these fundamental flaws, the argument put forth by the business manager of the television company falls apart. Considering the plethora of assumptions made by the manager, the conclusion is unjustifiable.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 86, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...ts received from viewers concerning the stations coverage of weather and local news were...
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Line 3, column 230, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...could have been provided in the form of a excerpt from a letter one of the busine...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'second', 'so', 'thus']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.250393700787 0.25644967241 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.185826771654 0.15541462614 120% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0708661417323 0.0836205057962 85% => OK
Adverbs: 0.044094488189 0.0520304965353 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0110236220472 0.0272364105082 40% => OK
Prepositions: 0.116535433071 0.125424944231 93% => OK
Participles: 0.0771653543307 0.0416121511921 185% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.74387866214 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0251968503937 0.026700313972 94% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.154330708661 0.113004496875 137% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0220472440945 0.0255425247493 86% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00472440944882 0.0127820249294 37% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3639.0 2731.13054187 133% => OK
No of words: 582.0 446.07635468 130% => OK
Chars per words: 6.25257731959 6.12365571057 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.91168771031 4.57801047555 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.388316151203 0.378187486979 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.341924398625 0.287650121315 119% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.249140893471 0.208842608468 119% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.132302405498 0.135150697306 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74387866214 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 207.018472906 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.379725085911 0.469332199767 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 44.966682885 52.1807786196 86% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.039408867 120% => OK
Sentence length: 24.25 23.2022227129 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0133529864 57.7814097925 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.625 141.986410481 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.25 23.2022227129 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.724660767414 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 58.4424398625 51.9672348444 112% => OK
Elegance: 1.8431372549 1.8405768891 100% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.478014733103 0.441005458295 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.187781133161 0.135418324435 139% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0795987480281 0.0829849096947 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.66317371963 0.58762219726 113% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.143913469991 0.147661913831 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.239846617538 0.193483328276 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11290871951 0.0970749176394 116% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.592404949136 0.42659136922 139% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.145133780274 0.0774707102158 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.356127458258 0.312017818177 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0851297578087 0.0698173142475 122% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 6.87684729064 233% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 14.0 5.36822660099 261% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 14.657635468 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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