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."
The argument states that restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level by a television station to attract more viewers by cutting down the time devoted to national news. Stated in this manner, the argument manipulates facts and provides a distorted view of the situation. The conclusion of the argument is rife with holes and assumption that it lacks perspicuity. Hence, the argument is not conspicuous and has several imperfections.
Primarily, the argument readily assumes that cutting down the time devoted to national news by local and weather news will help in reducing the complaints from the viewers. But there is no clear evidence that doing so will help the station. The complaints by the viewers could have been from a particular section of people who watch only the late- night programs.
Next in line, the argument readily asserts that the reason for the local businesses to cancel their advertising contracts is due to the increased time devoted to national news. We should further analyse what else could have been the reason.The local businesses could have found other effective ways to advertise.Or they could have found a way of cost cutting to met the decline in revenues in their respective companies. The company could have also signed up for a advertising in the day-time. Without knowing the reasons for the local business to do so,the author should not jump to conclusions.
Furthermore, over the past year many catastrophic events at the national level could have happened and the television station could have devoted more time to national news in order to attract viewers. Did the television company completely omit all the local and weather news? Did the company occlude a important local event? From whom did the complaints come? What other reasons could have made the local businesses to cancel their contracts?What reason made the station to devote more time to national news than before? Without unassailable answers to these questions,the reader is left with the impression that the claims made by the author is more of a wishful thinking than a substantive evidence.
In its totality, the argument does not address various factors and has several imperfections. If the author provided strong evidence in terms of a detailed analysis, then the argument may hold strong.If not,the argument is unsubstantiated and is open to debate.
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- The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper:On average, middle-aged consumers devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products and services, while for younger consumers the average is only 25 percent. Sin 66
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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 time period, most of the comp 62
- The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper:On average, middle-aged consumers devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products and services, while for younger consumers the average is only 25 percent. Sin 66
- The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper:On average, middle-aged consumers devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products and services, while for younger consumers the average is only 25 percent. Sin 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.23820754717 0.25644967241 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.167452830189 0.15541462614 108% => OK
Adjectives: 0.110849056604 0.0836205057962 133% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0400943396226 0.0520304965353 77% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0188679245283 0.0272364105082 69% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0990566037736 0.125424944231 79% => OK
Participles: 0.0518867924528 0.0416121511921 125% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.76914054934 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0448113207547 0.026700313972 168% => OK
Particles: 0.00707547169811 0.001811407834 391% => OK
Determiners: 0.132075471698 0.113004496875 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0306603773585 0.0255425247493 120% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0117924528302 0.0127820249294 92% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2408.0 2731.13054187 88% => OK
No of words: 390.0 446.07635468 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.17435897436 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 4.57801047555 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.366666666667 0.378187486979 97% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.310256410256 0.287650121315 108% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.192307692308 0.208842608468 92% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.120512820513 0.135150697306 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76914054934 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 207.018472906 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469230769231 0.469332199767 100% => OK
Word variations: 49.9658272691 52.1807786196 96% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 20.5263157895 23.2022227129 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.8041022181 57.7814097925 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.736842105 141.986410481 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5263157895 23.2022227129 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.421052631579 0.724660767414 58% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 3.58251231527 279% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 51.5519568151 51.9672348444 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.71875 1.8405768891 93% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.571414465649 0.441005458295 130% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.13340721845 0.135418324435 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0751665318266 0.0829849096947 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.617646767269 0.58762219726 105% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.130142831754 0.147661913831 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.256071833544 0.193483328276 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110076748111 0.0970749176394 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.496857234908 0.42659136922 116% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.12439676529 0.0774707102158 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.413149079264 0.312017818177 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102201449379 0.0698173142475 146% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 6.46551724138 124% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 14.657635468 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.