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.
While an increase in time allotment of weather and local news would increase the number of viewers, the author's argument does not make a cogent case for reverting it to its formal level. The following argument is flawed for numerous reasons, primarily because of the lack of proper evaluation of complaints and the reasons behind plummeting local advertisement contracts.
Firstly, the author assumed that complaints received at the station on the coverage of weather and local news is the representative of a large sample of viewership. It might be the case that a large number of complaints were filed by a few of the viewers who represent an infinitesimal percentage of overall viewership. Moreover, the author does not mention the type of claims that were lodged, and they might be about the content of the local and weather news rather than the time allotment issue in question.
Secondly, there is no evidence for a correlation between the decrease of the local business advertisement contracts and time allotment of local and weather news. The contracts might plummet due to various reasons which could be a decrease in popularity of the news channel or a considerable shift of business to a neighboring city.
Lastly, the author does not provide any ration behind reverting the time allotment of local and weather news to its formal level. As the time changes, peoples need and necessities also change, thus reverting time allotments to its former level does not necessarily increase the viewership and business contracts.
The author's argument would have been stronger had it provided information about the sample distribution and specifics of complaints received and the relation between the local and weather news timings with local business contracts.
Because the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to make a convincing case for increasing the time allotment of local and weather news to its formal level.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 11 15
No. of Words: 312 350
No. of Characters: 1605 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.203 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.144 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.816 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 3.675 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.471 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.768 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.127 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 105, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...uld increase the number of viewers, the authors argument does not make a cogent case fo...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 192, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...f viewership. It might be the case that a large number of complaints were filed by a few of the v...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...wership and business contracts. The authors argument would have been stronger had i...
^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 177, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...l and weather news to its formal level.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1644.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 312.0 441.139720559 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26923076923 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87053543812 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 204.123752495 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.448717948718 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 24.3497246578 57.8364921388 42% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 149.454545455 119.503703932 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3636363636 23.324526521 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.45454545455 5.70786347227 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.293935630269 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.138458425296 0.0743258471296 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589759849991 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.178891502984 0.128457276422 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0221335984363 0.0628817314937 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 14.3799401198 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => 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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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.