The recommendation endorsed by the author is that the television station should restore the time devoted to whether and local view to gain more views and gain opportunity to earn more by advertisment. However, there are some pieces of crucial evidence required to be examined to evaluate the validity of the conslusion.
First, the author assume that the company stop to investgate in advertisment simply because less viewers are willing to match the channel. However, there sre still a lot of reason that company curtained their advertisement budget. Perhaps, the company are faced with financial crisis recently. Under this circumstance, it will lower the insequence cost that won't significantly cause devestating influence to the company, such as advertisement cost. The author's failure to establish or investigate the relationship between the cancelled advertisement program and the viewers of the channel make the conclusion not convincing
Secondly, the author didn't take other factor that make viewers to complain, which has committed a fallacy of oversimplification. Maybe audiences are complaining just because the recent weather is too bad. So they need more information of weather to know whether they should go to work or stay at home for safety tomorrow. In this circumstance, it is just a tempory trend of preference of viewers, not the future or permanent favor of audience.
Finally, the author can unfairly assume that most people don't like to see national news. In the auther's argument, we didn't see any stastics for number of complains versus the total number of residents living in the area. Perhaps there is only three complaint about decresed time in local news and whether report, but there are one hundred. In this case, the total portion of the complaints is little. Hence, the author should provide more detailed information to strengthec his or her statement.
In sum, some logical fallacies render the conclusion vulnerable to refutation. The auther should take more potential factors into account are provide more statistics to justify his or her standpoint.
- Over the past year our late night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news During the same time period most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with th 60
- A nation should required all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college 62
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 12 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 15 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 335 350
No. of Characters: 1725 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.278 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.149 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.884 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.611 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.917 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.284 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.535 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.063 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 93, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun viewers is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...vestgate in advertisment simply because less viewers are willing to match the channe...
^^^^
Line 3, column 454, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ompany, such as advertisement cost. The authors failure to establish or investigate the...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 22, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... not convincing Secondly, the author didnt take other factor that make viewers to ...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 58, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...or can unfairly assume that most people dont like to see national news. In the authe...
^^^^
Line 7, column 118, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...ional news. In the authers argument, we didnt see any stastics for number of complain...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 143, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'provided'.
Suggestion: provided
...more potential factors into account are provide more statistics to justify his or her s...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1769.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 331.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34441087613 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95739377295 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592145015106 0.468620217663 126% => OK
syllable_count: 556.2 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.3241858532 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.058823529 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4705882353 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.82352941176 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153779750441 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0413142474951 0.0743258471296 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0513706864724 0.0701772020484 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0739973937159 0.128457276422 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0516862216671 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.32208582834 113% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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