"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 asserts that the late-night news program should recover its original level to lure more viewers and avoid losing current advertising revenues. However, the argument has numerous unsubstantiated assumption and is therefore unpersuasive as it stands.
First, the argument suggest that most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with the current coverage of weather and local news. In order to make this argument effective, there must be the ratio of the suggested complaints to the actual viewers and the comparison of the complaints over the past year. We do not know whether the total complaints have declined. Some might be more satisfied with the change of time which will result in lower complaints. Moreover, without exact ratio of the total complaints to the actual viewers, it might not be reasonable to take an action about it. Furthermore, there might be a possiblity of one person repetedly wrote the same complaints over and over.
Second, the argument contends that many viewers were concerned with the current situation. However, this concerns does not directly lead to possible loss in profit. There must be other statistical evidence to support the current changes that leads to actual loss of the viewers.
Third, the argument asserts that the local businesses are retracting their advertising contracts. However, it does not mention the total advertising revenues. Even though, the local businesses renounce their contracts, there might be more contracts on other nation-wide business company. Since the range of the company to advertise has risen, there might be more competition on advertising contracts which might lead to extra margin. Moreover, there should be more information about the total amount of loss due to this situation. If the new profits outweigh the losses, it would be reasonable to remain.
In conclusion, since the argument that the late-night news program should recover its original level, relies on several insufficient amount of data, it lacks logical reasoning.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 319 350
No. of Characters: 1676 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.226 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.254 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.675 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.722 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.772 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.611 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.333 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, third, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1720.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 319.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39184952978 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76004166879 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501567398119 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 523.8 705.55239521 74% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.3604455729 57.8364921388 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.5555555556 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7222222222 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => 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: 0.2126522225 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.066150325661 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0897362073439 0.0701772020484 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113704142058 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0764083264088 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => 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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