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 if Medway radio station increases the number of call-in advice program, the number of radio listeners may increase; however, the author's argument does not make a cogent case. It is easy to understand that Rockville radio listeners are interested to the program, but the author needs verifiable evidences to prove his/her recommendation.
First of all, the author mentions that the number of radio audiences in radio station WCQP in Rockville has increased significantly in the past two years ago because of call-in advice program, but the author does not indicate the statistic about it. We do not know the total number of radio listeners in Rockville two years ago and the total number radio listeners now which can make a different perspective. Imagine the total number of radio listeners in Rockville was a hundred two years ago with ten people interested in call-in service program. If the total number is two hundred now and the interested call-in audiences are forty people now, so it does not show the significate increase.
Additionally, the author compares two different radio stations in two different regions which is not logical. There is no information about similarities and differences about radio audience’s population in Rockville and in Medway. The author does not mention about age and gender group of listeners. For example, Rockville may have much more retired people who have time to listen to the radio and call for that program. Or Medway may have much more young people who only have time to listen to the radio while they drive and do not have time to call-in.
Last but not least, the author does not explain about questions in survey and how radio listeners indicated their interest. There might be only yes and no questions in that survey which cannot give us reliable result. Thus, the author needs to provide detailed information about a nationwide survey.
The author can make his/her suggestion persuasive when he/she gathers information about statistic number of increased listeners, age and gender of radio listeners in Rockville and Medway, and survey detailed questions. After answering these questions, he/she can make such a conclusion.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: primate Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 364 350
No. of Characters: 1805 1500
No. of Different Words: 149 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.368 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.959 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.597 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 129 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 66 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.467 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.411 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.411 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.261 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 156, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...io listeners may increase; however, the authors argument does not make a cogent case. I...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, so, thus, while, for example, first of all
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: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1848.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 360.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13333333333 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68615563562 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.427777777778 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 582.3 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.2307176935 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.5 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.70786347227 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.390673382428 0.218282227539 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139698486102 0.0743258471296 188% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12240376674 0.0701772020484 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215293437227 0.128457276422 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.140790021137 0.0628817314937 224% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => 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: 12.77 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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