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 just
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.”
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the
argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
According to that argument, the rating of late night news program has fallen because it does not devote more time to weather and local news. Before restoreing the time allocation to formal level, there are few evidences that need to be taken into consideration.
The argument does not mention exactly how much time was formally and now spend on weather and local news? If the time spend currently on the weather and local news is not much lessen that it formally was, then it should not affect the news content. Also, if the time devoted to national news has been increased, it might be because the national happenings are of more importance and impacting than the local news.
The complaints received from viewer were mostly regarding the coverage of weather and local news. But the time span time in which these complaints were received is not stated. Also, proportion of the number viewers that filed complaints to that of total viewers should be considered.
Cancellation of advertising contracts would not be neccessary have less time for weather and local news as their main reason. The end goal of the local business is to advertise so as to increase its sells. It does not care much about the program during which the advertises are played.
If we consider that the time devoted to weather and local news is restored to former level, it does not garrantee that the more viewers will be attracted towards the program. It would just mean lessening the number of complaints about time allocation from the viewers. Similarly, it also does not garanttee that the station will not lose anymore advertising revenues.
In conclusion, above mentioned evidences like total number of current and formal viewers, number of viewers that filed complaints, evidence that the main reason behind cancellation of advertising contracts will be needed to strengthen the argument.
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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: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 311 350
No. of Characters: 1526 1500
No. of Different Words: 141 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.199 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.907 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.507 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 80 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.733 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.738 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.39 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.66 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.108 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 178, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...l of the local business is to advertise so as to increase its sells. It does not care mu...
^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 206, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nd cancellation of advertising contracts will be needed to strengthen the argumen...
^^
Line 12, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...be needed to strengthen the argument.
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, regarding, similarly, so, then, as for, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1580.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 311.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08038585209 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57927122805 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469453376206 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 480.6 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.4139117345 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.333333333 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7333333333 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.38714537272 0.218282227539 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151674212177 0.0743258471296 204% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110369711199 0.0701772020484 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212312459981 0.128457276422 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114038143599 0.0628817314937 181% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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