Two years ago, radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number of call-in advice programs that it broadcast; since that time, its share of the radio audience in the Rockville listening area has increased significantly. Given WCQP's recent success with call-in advice programming, and citing a nationwide survey indicating that many radio listeners are quite interested in such programs, the station manager of KICK in Medway recommends that KICK include more call-in advice programs in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The extent to which kick should include more call-in advice programs to gain a larger audience share in its listening area has complicated in its implication. The station manager of kick in medway recommend doing so by citing success in rockville and nationwise survey. Although adding more call-in advice programs might attract more audiences, we cannot fully evaluate the expected outcome due to unaddressed assumptions.
To begin with, the author unfairly attributes the success of wcqp in rockville listening area to inreasing number of call-in advice programs. it is true that some people are especially interested in call-in advice programs and find those helpful, thereby enhancing number of audicens. However, there might many other factors remained unexamined. For example, wcqp were attracted to other new and more interesting programs. Unless the author provides the number of audiences that are only listen to call-in advice programs, we cannot fully decide the influence. In addition, rockville and medway might not be comparable in many aspects, including demographic structure, populations and so forth. if most of citizens are the youth in rockville, who need more advice in their growth, then it is natural that more call-in advice programs would benefit the local residents. On the other hand, if medway has more workers, who are busy with their work, so that do not have much time listening to radios, then adding call-in advice programs might not be meaningful.
Moreover, the author assumes that national survey results are good indication of radios listers. Tough interest of those participants in survey might reflect some general trend of people's interest, this nationwide outcome might not be a strong indication of cases in medway. if most large of survey are conducted in othe rcities, who have totally different characteristics with medway, then the result might be biased and cannot provide me convincing support to the recommendation. Furthermore, even though we are able to gain some understanding in nationwide survey, that radio listeners are interested in such programs is not the same as the fact the we would listen to radios. there are gaps between interest and real actions in our lives. even though people might be avid for somethings, not all of them are able to achievement it. In this case, for instance, people do not have equipment for radios. Hence, without offering evidences with regard to the actual impact on potential listeners, we cannot fully prodict the expected impact.
Last but not least, the assumption that kick can obtain larger audience once include more call-in advicen programs is problematic. Before we implement such recommendation, we need to first examine the current condition of call-in advice programs. if most people find them boring and bootless, then adding more such programs perhaps is not worthwhile. As mentioned above, if the major reason behinds increasing audiences does not lie within the introduction of call-in advice program, then making changes in medway is not helpful. To decide whether this suggestion will have the expected outcome, we also need to judge its feasibility. if all other programs attract stable and considerable audiences, then cutting any of them might reduce the total amount of audiences. Additionally, whether kick has further labor resources for such change remains a question. In all likelihood, including more call-in advice programs costs much more than its benefit, then we may need to reconsider such recommendation.
To sum up, as it stands, the argument is based on some unjustified assumptions. To better decide whether the recommendation suggested by the station manager, the author ought to provide the evidences as follows: first, whether call-in advice programs is the main impetus to attracting listeners and whether wcqp and kick are comparable in all respects; second, whether the nationwide survey gives good idea of current condition in medway; finally, whether kick is able to attract larger audiences after making the change.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 639 350
No. of Characters: 3336 1500
No. of Different Words: 276 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.028 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.221 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.662 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 279 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 195 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 123 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 83 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.045 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.198 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.818 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.52 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.136 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 143, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...sing number of call-in advice programs. it is true that some people are especially...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...ic structure, populations and so forth. if most of citizens are the youth in rockv...
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Line 3, column 699, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the citizens') or simply say ''most citizens''.
Suggestion: most of the citizens; most citizens
...structure, populations and so forth. if most of citizens are the youth in rockville, who need mo...
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Line 7, column 103, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...good indication of radios listers. Tough interest of those participants in survey...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...a strong indication of cases in medway. if most large of survey are conducted in o...
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Line 7, column 651, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'we'?
Suggestion: the; we
...ch programs is not the same as the fact the we would listen to radios. there are gaps ...
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Suggestion: There
...the fact the we would listen to radios. there are gaps between interest and real acti...
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Suggestion: Even
...interest and real actions in our lives. even though people might be avid for somethi...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...t condition of call-in advice programs. if most people find them boring and bootle...
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Suggestion: If
... we also need to judge its feasibility. if all other programs attract stable and c...
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Line 11, column 809, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'labored'.
Suggestion: labored
... Additionally, whether kick has further labor resources for such change remains a que...
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Line 17, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... audiences after making the change.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, then, while, for example, for instance, in addition, it is true, to begin with, to sum up, with regard to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 55.5748502994 158% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3447.0 2260.96107784 152% => OK
No of words: 639.0 441.139720559 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39436619718 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02776782673 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78165569423 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 295.0 204.123752495 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.461658841941 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 1061.1 705.55239521 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 14.0 2.70958083832 517% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 19.7664670659 147% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.867072701 57.8364921388 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.862068966 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0344827586 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.27586206897 5.70786347227 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.20758483034 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222661150358 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610701457166 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602953537854 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13263178402 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0613519974225 0.0628817314937 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 163.0 98.500998004 165% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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