"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 author of the argument concludes that television station should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level in order to attract more viewers and avoid any advertising revenues. To support this conclusion the author cited various premise; increased time devotion to national news, complaints regarding lack of coverage of weather and local news and cancelation of advertising contacts. These premises seem to bolster the argument at first sight but meticulous analysis shows otherwise. The reasons for failure of the argument are explained below;
Firstly, the author states that over the past year news program has devoted more time to national news rather than local and weather news due to which all the problems has occured. At first this premise seems to support the argument but actually not. Because one one year is not a small span of time, during this other problems may have ocuured due to which station is in trouble today. It may be possible that manner of repersenting news has changed which is not accepted by people.
Secondly, according to author's saying the number of complaints during that period has increased. But no statistical data has been provided about the number of complaints. Moreover, it may be possible that problems may be concerned about misrepersentation of news or about inaccurate data about the weather. Or it may be true that station may had become biased, showing the news only of concerned party due to which people become offended.
Thirdly, the reason provided for the loss of station is that local businessess that usally advertises during the late night programs has cancelled their contract due to more emphais on national news. But only this thing cannot be the cause of the recanation of local businessess, there must be other reasons responsible for their action. It might be due to mallacious image of the station which may be affecting their business or due to personal problems with manager of the station.
To sum up, the author's conclusion was totally based on the fallacious assumptions which lead to the failure of the argument. Additional information ragarding the matter shown in news, number of complaints by customers and the actual reason behind the cancellation of contract by local business advertisers. Due to unavailability of such information the argument fails to hold the ground.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ional news, complaints regarding lack of coverage of weather and local news and c...
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Suggestion:
...eather and local news and cancelation of advertising contacts. These premises see...
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... the argument but actually not. Because one one year is not a small span of time, durin...
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Suggestion: author
...ted by people. Secondly, according to authors saying the number of complaints during ...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...manager of the station. To sum up, the authors conclusion was totally based on the fal...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, may, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, as to, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2024.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 388.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21649484536 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7315502515 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.492268041237 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 612.9 705.55239521 87% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.8119540195 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.058823529 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8235294118 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52941176471 5.70786347227 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => 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: 0.27380635971 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0887624541615 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101325179504 0.0701772020484 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156258317238 0.128457276422 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0890072640913 0.0628817314937 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => 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: 13.29 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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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.