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 of 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."
In the memorandum from the business manager of a listener-supported public radio station, it is recommended that instead of putting emphasis on latino and world music, the radio station should broadcast traditional american folk music in order to avoid the loss of additional listener supporters. Numerous written complain from long-term supporters and a critical editorial published in the local newspaper prompted the manager to advise this recommendation. The notion of reducing Latino and world music and increasing American folk music requires further evidences and less fallacious arguments provided in the memorandum.
Firstly, the manager fails to provide the accurate statistical data of the long-term supporters who have filed a complain about the un-American bias of the program. For example, the number of long-term supporters could be five hundred, whereas, due to the shift in the broadcasted music genre, popularity of the station might be increased by over a thousand listeners. Thus, heeding to complaints of this long term supporters might even cause the station more supporters. Due to the public station being a listener-supported public radio station, the emphasis should be on increasing the amount of supporters instead of looking to keep things unchanged due to some complaints.
Secondly, the information about the local newspaper report which is critical about the shift in the programming of the radio station is rife with holes and assumptions. Without providing proper evidence the author assumes that the article is supporting traditional music and criticizing Latino and world music. The article might be criticizing the timing of the program or they may be claiming that the RJ (rocket jockey) is not skilled enough to keep the listeners entertained. The article might be complaining about the lack of weather information and local news. Without answering the question, what is the nature of the complain in the article, the notion of stopping Latino and world music is errornous.
Finally, the argument does not provide evidence of listener support analysis relating to the listeners. Without a time-based analysis of listeners preference and support, the conclusion can not hold water. Fro example. it might happen that the local listeners tune in to listen to the radio after afternoon. where as somewhere in the world other listeners tune in the morning and late night for listening. For this reason, the radio station opting to broadcast traditional music in the afternoon and non-traditional musics in the morning and nighttime. This mixed and moderated broadcasting system might be beneficial as both types of listeners will be appeased. Thus, the managers recommendation of fully ceasing non-American music is fallacious.
In conclusion, without bringing in light the evidences or circumstances stated above, it is not wise to follow the recommendation of the manager given in this argument. Before the recommendation is implemented, all the questions should be answered and circumstantial evidences should be followed by the answers to concretize the conclusion.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 478 350
No. of Characters: 2579 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.676 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.395 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.04 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 199 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 165 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 119 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 84 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.9 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.13 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.4 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.325 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.559 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 112, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...the long-term supporters who have filed a complain about the un-American bias of the progr...
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Line 5, column 619, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ing the question, what is the nature of the complain in the article, the notion of stopping ...
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Line 7, column 207, Rule ID: FOR_FRO[2]
Message: Did you mean 'for'?
Suggestion: For
...ort, the conclusion can not hold water. Fro example. it might happen that the local...
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Line 7, column 220, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...lusion can not hold water. Fro example. it might happen that the local listeners t...
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Line 7, column 309, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Where
...to listen to the radio after afternoon. where as somewhere in the world other listene...
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Line 7, column 309, Rule ID: WHERE_AS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'whereas'?
Suggestion: whereas
...to listen to the radio after afternoon. where as somewhere in the world other listeners ...
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Line 7, column 674, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'managers'' or 'manager's'?
Suggestion: managers'; manager's
...f listeners will be appeased. Thus, the managers recommendation of fully ceasing non-Ame...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, thus, whereas, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2636.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 478.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.51464435146 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12210721135 2.78398813304 112% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468619246862 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 810.9 705.55239521 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2143918516 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.523809524 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7619047619 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.90476190476 5.70786347227 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.262263654604 0.218282227539 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0804071897432 0.0743258471296 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0656397203004 0.0701772020484 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153638565948 0.128457276422 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0826593681203 0.0628817314937 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.5979740519 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 98.500998004 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.