Author is arguing that due to decrease in program time of weather and local news topic over the past one year, viewers have complained about it and also local business that used to advertise during this late-night news program have canceled their advertisement contract. Even though author's argument is plausible, it has flawed for numerous reasons and lack of evidence to support his argument.
The argument fails to provide information about how much time they reduced in showing weather and local news. Author has vaguely mentioned has less time, but haven't given any information about how much less time. It might be that one year before they were showing the weather and local news for 30 min out of 60 min show and now it might be reduced to 25 min, which is not so significant reduction in time.
Secondly, let’s assume argument had provided information about how much time they actually reduced and it’s a significant amount time. Author argues that they have received most of the complaints from the viewers for the shortage coverage of weather and local news. However, he hasn't considered the fact that many viewers might actually like the new coverage timing but they conveyed to the television station. For example, let’s assume around 1 million viewers watch this night show, and out of which 1 thousand people complaints saying they need more coverage of weather and local news. It can be seen that 99% of viewers are actually happy with the new coverage timing. So author should provide the information regarding how much percentage among the viewers has issue regarding this change.
Finally, argument claims due to change is coverage time and lesser viewers local business that used to advertise during this show has cancelled their advertising contract but never gave the evidence that canceling of advertising contract is due to this change. They might have canceled the contract for numerous other reasons, for example they might got a better deal with some other television station or they are shutting down their advertising business for their own reason. This argument could have been strengthened by discussing with the advertising business and knowing the actual reason behind the cancelling the contract.
Because the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to convey the case that television station needs to devote more time in weather and local news in order to attract more viewers and to increase the advertisement revenue.
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not exactly
argument 3 -- OK
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samples:
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 406 350
No. of Characters: 2038 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.489 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.02 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.49 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.067 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.553 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.379 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.615 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 353, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
..., it has flawed for numerous reasons and lack of evidence to support his argument...
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Line 3, column 159, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...as vaguely mentioned has less time, but havent given any information about how much le...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 289, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
... of weather and local news. However, he hasnt considered the fact that many viewers m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2095.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 404.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18564356436 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54289130646 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462871287129 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.1078511824 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.666666667 119.503703932 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.9333333333 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.2 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.288390756353 0.218282227539 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116224561701 0.0743258471296 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0938535826879 0.0701772020484 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191963371682 0.128457276422 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0778461137343 0.0628817314937 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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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.