An argument has been made that reducing the time allocated for local news and weather news in a late-night news program has caused the program to loose advertising contracts. This arguments has several flaws due to lack of evidence and unwarrented assumptions, which will be discussed in following passages.
Firstly, author mentions that they have received many complaints regarding weather and local news coverage during the time period, but doesn't specify the content of the complaints. These complaints might have been regrading the accuracy or any other concern regarding the news rather than the time allocated for weather and local news. Author assumes that these complaints are due to the reduceed time for weather and local coverage, but assumption does not hold up due to lack of evidence.
Even if the complaints are about the lack of coverage on local and weather news, that complaints might not be representative sample of the overall user opinions regarding the news, which will make the information biased.
Author also specify that local businesses has cancelled their advertising contracts with the program, without mentioning any purticular reason. There can be many other reasons for the businesses to changing or cancelling their advertising contracts such as change of the business model, government tax and regulations on advertising. Therefore, there is no evidence that the cancelling of the contracts are due to the less coverage of local news, which in turn makes the argument weak.
Finally author mentions that they will be able to gain back the advertising contracts and more users if they restore the time devoted for local and weather news based on the assumption that losing the contracts and viwers were caused by the lack of time for local and weather news. Again, there isn't enugh evidence supporting evidence provided which makes this argument weak. Author could have mentioned that the content of the complaints were specific about the less time on weather and local news to strenthen the argument.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 329 350
No. of Characters: 1682 1500
No. of Different Words: 142 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.259 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.112 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.606 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 113 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.417 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.693 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.449 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.687 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.114 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 147, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[3]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
... news program has caused the program to loose advertising contracts. This arguments h...
^^^^^
Line 1, column 176, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: These
...program to loose advertising contracts. This arguments has several flaws due to lack...
^^^^
Line 1, column 191, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'have', 'haven'.
Suggestion: have; haven
...e advertising contracts. This arguments has several flaws due to lack of evidence a...
^^^
Line 3, column 136, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ws coverage during the time period, but doesnt specify the content of the complaints. ...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...ich in turn makes the argument weak. Finally author mentions that they will be able ...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 296, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...or local and weather news. Again, there isnt enugh evidence supporting evidence prov...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, regarding, so, then, therefore, 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 : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1723.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 327.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26911314985 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64460404447 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.446483180428 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 524.7 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.3510994599 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.583333333 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.25 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58333333333 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.332987370099 0.218282227539 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.146506220345 0.0743258471296 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115164529178 0.0701772020484 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209564680228 0.128457276422 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0868273927103 0.0628817314937 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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