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 argument states that WWAC radio station is switching from rock music to the music that is liking of the retired population. The decreasing number of listeners despite of the population growth in the area has made this change. Author also adds that the radio station will broadcast news and talk shows to gain popularity among to the listeners of that area. This argument is made on assumptions of what kind of music is preferred by the different class of people.
First the author states that WWAC wants to change from its current format which is rock music. Not all the people like the single genre of music. Playing only the rock music all day can cause decrement in number of listeners. The Radio channel should be broadcasting all the types of popular music genre. It is not necessary that people’s age decides the preference of the music they listen to. This assumption is lacking detailed survey among the people of the area.
Second the author has not provided the clear number of people who migrated in the given area. Author also assumed that the most of the people are retired. In addition to that author claimed that the retired person do not like the rock music. As there is not a particular number is provided, it is difficult to reach to a conclusion that the decrease in the number of listeners is because of retired people ‘s taste. It is also possible that Retired persons have interest in rock music. By changing the genre of music the Increase in the number of listeners is not guaranteed.
Third the Author assumes that by adopting the news and talk show type the number of listener will increase. It has flaws such as, The popularity is determined on the basis of what survey and what are the number of people that surveyed and why it is popular. Talk shows and news all day can be annoying for listeners as listener tends to listen to music rather than news and talk show. Thus this claim of author also lacks vital information and hinges upon the possibility of the success of news and talk show.
This argument lacks some vital aspects to be considered while choosing the broadcast material and the genre of music. It is made upon assumptions. The conclusion of the argument is short sighted.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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... do not like the rock music. As there is not a particular number is provided, it ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, second, so, third, thus, while, in addition, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1852.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 393.0 441.139720559 89% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71246819338 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45244063426 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41145133484 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.417302798982 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 571.5 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => 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: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.1084116152 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.5217391304 119.503703932 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0869565217 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.39130434783 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195072261169 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643301028331 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0778900058453 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116235218451 0.128457276422 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0853354220797 0.0628817314937 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 14.3799401198 65% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.74 12.5979740519 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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 -- 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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