"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 period, most of the complai

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"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 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 canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs.' Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.”

The argument seems very straightforward though there are some issues to be checked to make it confirmatory. First of all the they need to find out if the amount (not only the percentage) of complaints regarding the local news not being broadcasted. On the other hand they also need to see what portions of people are happy about the broadcasting of national news. If this is really low then the argument gets more points. It is also needed to evaluate if there is other reasons of losing number of advertisements during late-night news program.

Again since now they broadcast more national news at late night they can try to increase national advertisements too and also compare which is more beneficial: getting more local ads or the national one. The argument depends on this comparison.

So if it is found that local viewers really want local news and weather then the argument has to be implemented. In that case naturally they will get more local advertisements. They can also try finding other options.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 122, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'they'?
Suggestion: the; they
...d to make it confirmatory. First of all the they need to find out if the amount not only...
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Line 1, column 363, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...bout the broadcasting of national news. If this is really low then the argument ge...
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Line 1, column 454, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are other reasons'?
Suggestion: there are other reasons
...oints. It is also needed to evaluate if there is other reasons of losing number of advertisements duri...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, really, regarding, so, then, as to, first of all, on the other hand

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: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 13.6137724551 22% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 55.5748502994 40% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 842.0 2260.96107784 37% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 172.0 441.139720559 39% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89534883721 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.62144681703 4.56307096286 79% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83670887695 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 204.123752495 49% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.587209302326 0.468620217663 125% => OK
syllable_count: 260.1 705.55239521 37% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.3139731341 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.2 119.503703932 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4 5.70786347227 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.185824655699 0.218282227539 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0740486224247 0.0743258471296 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0609419925423 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136890647298 0.128457276422 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0231759115105 0.0628817314937 37% => 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: 10.2 14.3799401198 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.33 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 31.0 98.500998004 31% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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