The argument states that over the past year, their late night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news and during this time period, most of the complaints received from the viewers were concerned with their station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during their late night news program have canceled their advertising contracts with them. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, they should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. The above stated arguments is presenting a very much distorted view of the situation and also fails to mentions several key factors on the basis of which it can be rationally evaluated. Hence, argument is weak because of the below mentioned reasons.
First, arguments does not gives any information about how many complaints were received regarding coverage of local news and weather or even what percentage of viewers those complaints make. And what exactly those concerns were. If author had given this information, argument could have been very sound.
Second, argument readily assumes that the canceled advertising agreements were because of their coverage of local news and weather reports compared to national news. Since they have mentioned that these contracts were made for late night programs the reason for their cancellation can be lack of viewers, as most people tend to sleep early because of their jobs or schools or even daily routines. If the argument had given some report or feedback information which includes reasons for cancellation of contracts of lack of service provided to them form owners of local businesses, then the argument could have been a lot more convincing.
Third, and most important thing, arguments says that by restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level they can not only avoid losing further advertising revenues but also attract more viewers. This conclusion lacks so much of essential information such as, how can they conclude that by doing so people would spend more time on viewing their late night program, did they conduct some kind of survey with the help of which they can say that people need more local news and weather reports over national news. If they had provided above mentioned feedback forms from local business owners in which those owners state that if they restore the time devoted to local news and weather news they would not cancel their contracts, this conclusions could have been convincing. Also how much time was devoted on local news and weather reports earlier and what difference does it makes compared to time ratio of current national news to local and weather news, because if there isn't much time difference then implementing this could be useless.
If the argument had provided facts regarding what percentage of viewers complained and exactly what were their concerns, Reason for cancellation of contracts, former and current time ratio of national news to local and weather news, or conducted any kind of survey which concludes that majority of people wants local news or is it just the timing of show and content then the argument would have been much better.
- People s attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by society as a whole 50
- 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 complain 66
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 748, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'mention'.
Suggestion: mention
...view of the situation and also fails to mentions several key factors on the basis of whi...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 27, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'give'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: give
...d reasons. First, arguments does not gives any information about how many complain...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 27, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'give'
Suggestion: give
...d reasons. First, arguments does not gives any information about how many complain...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 751, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
... they would not cancel their contracts, this conclusions could have been convincing....
^^^^
Line 7, column 796, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...conclusions could have been convincing. Also how much time was devoted on local news...
^^^^
Line 7, column 897, Rule ID: DOES_NP_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'make'?
Suggestion: make
...rts earlier and what difference does it makes compared to time ratio of current natio...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 897, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'make'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: make
...rts earlier and what difference does it makes compared to time ratio of current natio...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 995, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...ocal and weather news, because if there isnt much time difference then implementing ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, regarding, second, so, then, therefore, third, in addition, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 11.1786427146 250% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2784.0 2260.96107784 123% => OK
No of words: 545.0 441.139720559 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10825688073 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83169070408 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42461217795 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.396330275229 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 844.2 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 34.0 22.8473053892 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 95.5277896413 57.8364921388 165% => OK
Chars per sentence: 174.0 119.503703932 146% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.0625 23.324526521 146% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.428736331331 0.218282227539 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.164308154675 0.0743258471296 221% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.167796179262 0.0701772020484 239% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.259909128582 0.128457276422 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.157768534836 0.0628817314937 251% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.7 14.3799401198 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.43 48.3550499002 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.95 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.1389221557 140% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 748, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'mention'.
Suggestion: mention
...view of the situation and also fails to mentions several key factors on the basis of whi...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 27, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'give'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: give
...d reasons. First, arguments does not gives any information about how many complain...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 27, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'give'
Suggestion: give
...d reasons. First, arguments does not gives any information about how many complain...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 751, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
... they would not cancel their contracts, this conclusions could have been convincing....
^^^^
Line 7, column 796, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...conclusions could have been convincing. Also how much time was devoted on local news...
^^^^
Line 7, column 897, Rule ID: DOES_NP_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'make'?
Suggestion: make
...rts earlier and what difference does it makes compared to time ratio of current natio...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 897, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'make'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: make
...rts earlier and what difference does it makes compared to time ratio of current natio...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 995, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...ocal and weather news, because if there isnt much time difference then implementing ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, regarding, second, so, then, therefore, third, in addition, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 11.1786427146 250% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2784.0 2260.96107784 123% => OK
No of words: 545.0 441.139720559 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10825688073 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83169070408 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42461217795 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.396330275229 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 844.2 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 34.0 22.8473053892 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 95.5277896413 57.8364921388 165% => OK
Chars per sentence: 174.0 119.503703932 146% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.0625 23.324526521 146% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.428736331331 0.218282227539 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.164308154675 0.0743258471296 221% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.167796179262 0.0701772020484 239% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.259909128582 0.128457276422 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.157768534836 0.0628817314937 251% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.7 14.3799401198 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.43 48.3550499002 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.95 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.1389221557 140% => 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.