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.x
The manager WWAC radio station states in the memorandum that the station should modify the stations format to news and talk if they hope to increase the decreasing number of listeners. While the solution proposed by the manager may be true and actually does stop the declining, the arguments provided is flawed due to unwarranted arguments.
First and foremost, the author disregard the solution of altering to music format due to the fact that dropping recorded music's local sales. The manager assumes that the decrease in music sales demonstrate that people in the area does not prefer listenin...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 525 350
No. of Characters: 2507 1500
No. of Different Words: 211 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.787 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.775 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.315 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 178 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.875 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.694 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.322 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.519 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 681, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'weakened'.
Suggestion: weakened
...st int he music itself. This would have weaken the argument claim. In addition, the...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 165, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'people', 'persons'?
Suggestion: people; persons
... of listeners as there are more retired person moving in the area. However, there is n...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 617, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'show'.
Suggestion: show
...nt in the program. The author failed to shows a connection between how news and talk ...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 482, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'give'.
Suggestion: give
...ffective. Finally, the author failed to gives evidence how changing to news and talk ...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 553, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'work'
Suggestion: work
...news and talk format would specifically works for WWAC radio station. Without enough ...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, regarding, so, thus, well, while, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2559.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 525.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87428571429 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78673985869 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40047312041 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.407619047619 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 800.1 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 17.0 8.76447105788 194% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5516026595 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.625 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.875 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.875 5.70786347227 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => 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: 0.242366011342 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0732760954981 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474256567388 0.0701772020484 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140808500416 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0228397872904 0.0628817314937 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.