The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled 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 our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In the memo, the director of a television channel argues that the alloted time for viewing weather and home-based news should be returned to its previous level because of the complaints recieved from viewers and the cancellation of advertising agreements with the station. However, though the conclusion reached by the business manager might hold water, it rests on several unfounded assumptions that, if not substantiated, dramatically weaken the persuasiveness and cogency of the argument. Thus, the following two assumptions must be backed up with specific evidence.
First of all, the manager assumes that complaints recieved from viewers during the time period form a significant population of total viewers. That is, he may erroneously have asserted that the number of viewers who complain make up a huge chunk of total viewers on the channel. It may be possible that just a few of the tv stations viewers have made lodged those complaints. Perhaps, the vast majority of regulars are well satisfied with the content they recieve from the station. There is also a potential that the complaints are even from competing channel's ultras who wish for the station's collapse. If any of these possibilities proves true, the argument of the manager is severly weakened.
Secondly, the managers assumes that the reason local businesses have pulled out of advertising contracts are linked to the scheduling of tv programs. But, this may not be so, it is possible that there is major crises in the local business industry forcing all local business to pull out of all contracts and allot all funds into preserving themselves. It is not also far fetched to consider whether the reason for pulling out was in relation to the changes in program scheduling. The manager can take a step further by having a conversation with home-based businesses that pulled out to ascertain the reason for this decision. Armed with this information, the author will be able to put forward a more convincing arguement.
To summarize, while the business manager may seem to presents a sound argument concerning the decrease of revenue in his company, more data is needed to establish a firm conclusion. If the executive is able to provide evidence to two assumption, it will be possible to fully evaluate the validity of the arguement
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 196, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are major crises'?
Suggestion: there are major crises
...this may not be so, it is possible that there is major crises in the local business industry forcing ...
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Line 7, column 54, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'present'.
Suggestion: present
... while the business manager may seem to presents a sound argument concerning the decreas...
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Line 7, column 235, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'assumption' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'assumptions'.
Suggestion: assumptions
...tive is able to provide evidence to two assumption, it will be possible to fully evaluate ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, well, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1938.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 378.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12698412698 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.876915708 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 215.323595506 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539682539683 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 606.6 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6149681418 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.125 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.625 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5625 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184453728464 0.243740707755 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0545020581596 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0506946107975 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0990558156359 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0465575532218 0.0667264976115 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
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.