The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a listener-supported public radio station.
"For the past year, as part of an effort to broaden our supporter base, our Folk on the Air program has allocated less time to traditional American folk music and more time to Latino music and world music. In recent months, many long-term supporters of our station have written to complain about what they describe as the un-American bias of the program. In addition, the local newspaper has published a recent editorial critical to our shift in programming. Therefore, in order to forestall any further adverse publicity for the station and to avoid the loss of additional listener-supporters, we should discontinue our current emphasis on Latino and world music and restore the time devoted to traditional American folk music to its former level."
Respond by writing an essay in which you discuss the specific evidence you would need to judge the validity of the argument and explain how this evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
To broaden the supporter base Air program has more time to Latino music and world music and less time to conventional American folk music; in recent months, however, many long-term advocates of their station have complained about shift their program; also, the local newspaper has published a editorial critical to the shift of their program Due to these reasons they decided to stop the current program and restore the time to traditional music. Although the complain of long-term supporters and local news paper was true, they are too quick to discontinue their program; they faild to analyze the many aspects of the program. They assumes unwarranted assumptions regarding this evidence so the argument is dubious.
First of fall, they assume that there will be adversere publicity of their program for sure. It may be true that they may face adverse situation however their assumption is unwarranted because they have missed to analyze from other sides the conclusion is questionable. For example, supporters might warn them to increase ratio of traditonal American Music to Latino music and world music but Folk on Air program assumes differently. This assumption leads the argument dubitable.
Secondly They assume they will loss additional-supprters. While it may be true that they might loss few pervious supporter, they now gain new supporters of Latino music and world music and their program might gain new height. For example, the Latino and world music lovers may listen their program so much they might gain huge supporters. They failed to assume like this so there is question in validity of this argument.
The fallacy mentions above shows that the Folk of Air program fails to analyze different aspect of the situation so the argument is doubtabll. They need to assume that they might gain supporter, reach another level of success.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 300 350
No. of Characters: 1521 1500
No. of Different Words: 147 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.162 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.07 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.569 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 100 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.077 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.429 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.556 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 292, 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
...also, the local newspaper has published a editorial critical to the shift of thei...
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Line 1, column 457, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...the time to traditional music. Although the complain of long-term supporters and local news ...
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Line 1, column 504, Rule ID: NEWS_PAPER[1]
Message: Did you mean 'newspaper'? This word sequence is usually spelled together.
Suggestion: newspaper
...plain of long-term supporters and local news paper was true, they are too quick to discont...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 634, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'They' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'assume'
Suggestion: assume
...e the many aspects of the program. They assumes unwarranted assumptions regarding this ...
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Line 3, column 204, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'missed analyzing'.
Suggestion: missed analyzing
...mption is unwarranted because they have missed to analyze from other sides the conclusion is ques...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, while, for example
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: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1560.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 300.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66517458257 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493333333333 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => 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: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 98.488578018 57.8364921388 170% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0769230769 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.69230769231 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.149584024765 0.218282227539 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0552878840808 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0612954383912 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103487055171 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0499356742001 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 28.0 12.3882235529 226% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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
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