"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 the 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 above argument makes multiple assumptions that aren't valid to prove the conclusion. This argument assumes that the time spent on local news and weather is directly proportional to the increase in viewers and advertising contracts.
The argument assumes that the increase in time devoted to local news and weather will attract more viewers. The argument states that the existing viewers have complained about the less time spent on local news and weather. There is no evidence provided to prove the above assumption. The increase in time spent on local news and weather doesn't guarantee increased viewers. If there had been a fact stated that proves this assumption such as people requesting this increase in order to start watching this program, then this assumption would have been valid.
The argument assumes that the local businesses have canceled their advertising contracts because of less time spent on weather and local news. This isn't necessarily true. The contracts might have been canceled because of low budgets due to a poor economy. If the businesses had stated the reason for cancellation as the less time spent on local news, this assumption would have strengthened the argument.
In the past year, the weather could have been a major concern due to frequent storms or drought, or there was a very pertinent issue going on in the local area. These could be the reason for the demand for more time on weather and local news. The trend may change in the upcoming years. The interests of the viewers may differ over time. Increasing the time devoted to local news and weather doesn't guarantee happy viewers unless explicitly stated through a survey study.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 281 350
No. of Characters: 1373 1500
No. of Different Words: 120 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.094 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.886 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.463 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 88 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 46 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.562 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.391 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.25 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.399 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.556 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.104 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 52, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...rgument makes multiple assumptions that arent valid to prove the conclusion. This arg...
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Line 3, column 338, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...in time spent on local news and weather doesnt guarantee increased viewers. If there h...
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Line 5, column 149, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...e spent on weather and local news. This isnt necessarily true. The contracts might h...
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Line 7, column 393, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... time devoted to local news and weather doesnt guarantee happy viewers unless explicit...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, so, then, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.6327345309 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1402.0 2260.96107784 62% => OK
No of words: 277.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06137184116 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48153393305 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 204.123752495 61% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447653429603 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 705.55239521 60% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => 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: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.4407962912 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.625 119.503703932 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3125 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.625 5.70786347227 28% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.357724826535 0.218282227539 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143496455158 0.0743258471296 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109477549118 0.0701772020484 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248250529524 0.128457276422 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0539695823883 0.0628817314937 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 98.500998004 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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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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.