"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 wit

The argument concludes that television station should restore the time devoted to the local news and weather to its formal level. While it seems logical that most of the complaints news company received were in regard to weather and local news and losing revenue from advertises, supports the conclusion, actually the premise is based on untenable assumptions.

Starting with the fact that in the past year, late night news program focused more on national news than local news and weather, which in effect caused viewes to file complaints. But what the argument fails to consider is that why is that pthe rimary reason of most of the complaints. News agency only provided little less time for local news and weather, not completely stopped them. In addition, argument states that "most" of the complaints were concerented with the coverage of news station. But fails to quantify the same.

Same goes with the cancellation of advertising contracts. There is lack of proper evidence that supports the connection of loss of advertising contracts to the content of the news. Local businesses may have different reasons to stop their contracts with the news company. For example, they want to switch to a different news agency. Or maybe they cancelled their advertising contrcats because of the decline in number of viewes of the news channel.

Later in argument, television station manager mentions that increasing focus and so time devoted local news and weather content will attract more views and advertisers while fails to provide any support to this prediction. Though, it could be the reason that low local content drove viewer away from this station, it does not simply imply that restoring the focus on weather and local news will bring them back.

While, the business manager of television station stated a reason behind the decline of viewership and advertising revenue, he/she failed to consider many crucial assumptions and providing proper evidence to support the new plan. If business mangaer analyses the data of complaints in past year with old data considering other factors in the play, then based on such detailed analysis only he/she can properly draw the conclusion.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 171, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'complaints'' or 'complaint's'?
Suggestion: complaints'; complaint's
...While it seems logical that most of the complaints news company received were in regard to...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, may, so, then, while, for example, in addition, in regard to

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.6327345309 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1852.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 355.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21690140845 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62518587396 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52676056338 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.1866834117 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.75 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1875 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9375 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => 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: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.370047812799 0.218282227539 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125420786466 0.0743258471296 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0954134296885 0.0701772020484 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214352919595 0.128457276422 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.131319951732 0.0628817314937 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 357 350
No. of Characters: 1793 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.347 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.022 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.492 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.312 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.967 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.365 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.603 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.146 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5