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 the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled 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 the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs.
The manager attributes the complains and declining advertising income to the increasing proportion of national news, However, this seemingly reasonable arguement need to be further verified with more evidence before claiming it is sound.
Firsly, the manager claimed that most of the complaints are about fewer contents in weather and local news. However, before claiming the this phenomenon is problematic, there are still wanting evidence for the change in number of the complaints. Are the complaints get more as the contents are more about national news or they get less? If the case is that the complain get less but with more concern about regional news, it is not problematic. Additionally, how large propotional of the subscribers made complaints is also crucial, as it is not an issue if there are reported shows that less than 5 percent of them grumble about the contents. In above two hypothetical cases, the claim by the manager is no longer tenable.
A second doubts casted on the memoradum is that the manager tried to establish a causality between their canceled contract by local business with the shift in the contants. It sounds plausible, but the manager disregard many other alternative explanations that may also precipitate this. For instance, the number of subscribers and the growing social plant form can be two factors that precipitate local companies to cancel their contracts. If the local busines found that the televation station are get fewer followers so that their advertisment is less effective, or they noticed that spend the money on peddling their goods on social plantforms are more lucrative, they may still cancel their contracts. Therefore the assertion is weaken if such evidence is found.
In the end, there are still needy evidences in support the manager's claim that if they focus more on weather and local news, they can get more viewer. Even though the posit of restoring such content would attract more new subscribers, the change in totall followers depends on how many additional subscribers and the loss in current ones. Only if there are investigations that suggest there will only be very few loss in followers while get spate of new subscribers, the managers claim would be firm. Otherwise, the assertion would still be fallacious if the case is that they will lost many current viewers, which even outweighted the number of new ones they can attract.
In conclusion, it would be more shrewed for the consumers to gather more evidence on the possible ramifications for retoring the content as differnet evidences foresee differnet future for this televation station.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 18 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 427 350
No. of Characters: 2154 1500
No. of Different Words: 199 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.546 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.044 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.692 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 146 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.118 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.373 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.765 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.564 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.104 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 134, Rule ID: DT_DT[2]
Message: Maybe you need to remove the second determiner so that only 'the' or 'this' is left.
Suggestion: the; this
...nd local news. However, before claiming the this phenomenon is problematic, there are st...
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Line 3, column 176, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...e this phenomenon is problematic, there are still wanting evidence for the change in number of th...
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Line 3, column 275, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...complaints. Are the complaints get more as the contents are more about national ne...
^^
Line 3, column 358, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...s or they get less? If the case is that the complain get less but with more concern about re...
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Line 5, column 708, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... they may still cancel their contracts. Therefore the assertion is weaken if such evidenc...
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Line 5, column 735, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'weakened'.
Suggestion: weakened
...r contracts. Therefore the assertion is weaken if such evidence is found. In the en...
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Line 7, column 12, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...f such evidence is found. In the end, there are still needy evidences in suppo...
^^
Line 7, column 165, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
..., they can get more viewer. Even though the posit of restoring such content would attract...
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Line 7, column 236, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tent would attract more new subscribers, the change in totall followers depends o...
^^
Line 7, column 585, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'lose'
Suggestion: lose
...allacious if the case is that they will lost many current viewers, which even outwei...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, second, so, still, therefore, while, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2206.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 427.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1662763466 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77067095538 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470725995316 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 677.7 705.55239521 96% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.9368306632 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.764705882 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1176470588 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.366727173634 0.218282227539 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128408014012 0.0743258471296 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.194368935984 0.0701772020484 277% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.281298259687 0.128457276422 219% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.301953575029 0.0628817314937 480% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.