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.
While it may be true that the KICK ought to expand its call-in advice programs to attract a larger group of audience, the decision made by the station manager is compromised by a number of unanswered questions, which could be vital for the feasibility and success of this reform.
To begin with, citing the surge of audience of WCQP in Rockville after it broadcasted more call-in advice programs, the author would still need to elaborate the true reason for this success. For example, it is not impossible that more people choose to listen WCQP simply because they like the style of a particular host, but has little to do with the exact content of the program. Thus, to truly understand the relationship between audience share and call-in advice programs, the author ought to discreetly study the possible concomitant factors.
Additionally, the author implies that a nationwide survey suggests the growing popularity of call-in advice programs. It is, however, far from adequate to support the assertion of the station manager of KICK. A problem worth noting here is the validity of the qurstionnaire. Before taking the results seriously, the author need to know how representative the survey is, for instance. Is it possible that the survey was carried out by a national radio station that shares a huge population of audience who like the call-in advice programs of that station? Before answering these questions and many others alike, the survey cannot be used as the evidence to include more call-in advice programs at KICK.
Last but not least, even if there is a possitive correlation between the number of audience and the proportion of call-in advice programs broadcasted, the preference of local community should also be considered. Since WCQP is based in Rockville, and the survey adduced by the manager is a nationwide one, these evidence do not veraciously reflects the taste of people in Medway, where KICK is based. In other words, it would be fruitless for KICK to include more call-in advice programs if people in its listening area are indifferent to this program format at all.
In conclusion, a program format that caters the interests of more residents in the listening area can definitely increase the audience share of KICK. For this reason, the station manager of KICK may decide to offer more call-in advice programs. However, the author's arguments are rife with questions yet to be answered, which undoubtly undermine the implementation of broadcasting more call-in advice programs.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, still, thus, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2111.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 411.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13625304136 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7658444485 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481751824818 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 666.9 705.55239521 95% => 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: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.3880761948 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.9375 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6875 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 5.70786347227 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267615550818 0.218282227539 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.088472130911 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0578965002839 0.0701772020484 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151169061759 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.033401730989 0.0628817314937 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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 -- 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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