The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station. "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this time period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have jus canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level."
Even though the business manager of television station gives his arguments to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. If find these arguments unconvincing and find them fallacious.
The argument states that the television stationn has devoted increases time to national news over the last year during late-night news and also during this period they have received compaints regarding staion's coverage of weather and local news. But, I just don't seem to understand how these two are related. Maybe the complaints from customers would be regarding their inaccurate weather reports or maybe be certain false local news. It is not stated weather the compalints are regarding their timings.
Maybe customers don't care about the increased coverage of national news.
The cancellation of advertisements can also be not attributed with national news coverage. There can be many reasons like there may have been certain differences between the television station annd advertising companies or those companies not having enough funds to continue advertising due to some loss.
To manager should provide the data weather there was a reduction in viewership of late night news but I find this crucial piece of information missing. Maybe there is an increase in viewership and cancellation of advertising contracts is due to increased prices and huge demand which the local business cannot afford. In this case moving back to local and weather news might be deleterious. The manager should also provide information weather they have new advertising contracts.
To support his claims the televison station business manager should provide information about the type of complaints received as well as give detailed information regarding loss of advertising contracts. The claim would be bolsterd if he gave information wether there is a loss in viewership or not.
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Comments
e-rater score 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: 15 15
No. of Words: 297 350
No. of Characters: 1565 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.151 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.269 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.796 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 116 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.765 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.733 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.346 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.601 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 259, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... of weather and local news. But, I just dont seem to understand how these two are re...
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Line 4, column 17, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...garding their timings. Maybe customers dont care about the increased coverage of na...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, regarding, so, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 13.6137724551 15% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1598.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 295.0 441.139720559 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41694915254 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80533820351 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.518644067797 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => 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: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 58.5172339287 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.533333333 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4 5.70786347227 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.360916455728 0.218282227539 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119362989188 0.0743258471296 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.132457824047 0.0701772020484 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180025825314 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110390022126 0.0628817314937 176% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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.