'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 would be needed in order to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The foremost and cardinal flaw is that he has not taken into consideration the reason behind the increase in time devoted for national news in the last year. The national news might have been given prime importance because of the demand of the viewers themselves and abating the allotted time for it, might badly affect their business. In addition, there is no prior analysis mentioned, which has led to such a situation.
Even if it assumed that it won't further disappoint the viewers, the second fallacy is the way their complaints are addressed. It has been mentioned that these complaints are related to the issues in the coverage of weather and local news. There is a possibility that the viewers are very much interested in such news and are, therefore, demanding for more accuracy in such news. This directly undermines the conclusion, again. Decreasing the allotted time for these genre of news might highly diminish their chances of attracting more viewers.
Moreover, presuming that the change in the devoted timings won't necessarily have an impact on the public responses, the assumption that the local businesses have rescinded their contracts because of the change in timings is another illogical act. There is no data or statistics mentioned about the factors that have led to this. Moreover, the businessmen should be contacted and probed about their reasons to terminate the contracts.
Thus, it can be stated that the syllogism has many discrepancies and specific evidences are quintessential to strengthen the argument of the business manager. These evidences should primarily include - statistics about why the decision was taken in the last year to change the allotted timings, statistical data about which shows do the viewers prefer and surveys of the businesses who ceased the contracts. The issues of these businessmen and the complaints of the viewers should be dealt with more sensitivity and concern and the final decision made, should encompass all the evidences and propose an ideal solution.
In order to recapitulate, it can be stated that a common foundation syllabus definitely help at both, an individual and national level. However, it will be more beneficial if the system is made more pliable after a certain stage, involving electives in addition to the main course, where students are given the choice to pursue the subjects of their own interest.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 389 350
No. of Characters: 1966 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.441 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.054 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.685 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 142 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.312 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.492 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.438 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.31 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.568 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.037 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 461, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this genre' or 'these genres'?
Suggestion: this genre; these genres
...again. Decreasing the allotted time for these genre of news might highly diminish their cha...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, moreover, second, so, then, therefore, thus, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2013.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 387.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2015503876 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75699840904 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514211886305 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => 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: 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.312165058 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.8125 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1875 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.3125 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.192536374256 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0632760896672 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0700208044946 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106302115828 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0794075789547 0.0628817314937 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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