The editor of a local newspaper sent the following memo to the managing editor of the paper:
“Three years ago when we surveyed our subscribers, they complained about the quality of the reporting and writing in the paper. Since that time, we have made a concerted effort to hire older, more experienced journalists. According to our most recent survey, these changes have made a vast improvement. Not only has our subscriber base grown by 13%, but they also rated us higher on both reporting and writing. Therefore, it is evident that to continue to increase our readership, we should hire the most experienced journalists we can find, and gradually fire our younger, less experienced reporters."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
This statement adverts about a new hiring policy of a local newspaper in which they have started to try hiring older and experienced journalists rather younger, further, for next step they plan to fire younger and less experienced journalists gradually since they observe an increase in their subscribers and ratings. However, this plan includes several logical fallacies and overlooked possibilities need to be considered before they execute such immensely radical hiring policy.
First misjudgement is that they assume if they have all their journalists as experienced, then their increasing accelaration of succes continue to flourish. Nonetheless, only old ones may not be successful or cooperate successfully due to their egos, self-confidence, knowledgeability related to their experiences. To illustrate, there may be stubborn conlfict of interests or strategical internal power strifes. There is an overlooked possibility that merging old and young journalists may be beneficial to them since they teach each other and feed their specialization. However, hiring only old ones may create an old-fashioned, modest working environment and accordingly there can be an decrease in excitement of readers.
Second logical fallacy is that low quality problem may be arisen due to lack of enough employees, thus, few journalist cannot control and create great work but more employee can contribute more and they end up more qualified and meticulous pieces of news. As we know, it is also vital to catch up new innovation within a sector and may be some of young journalist has been worked on to search such market strategies to gain more subscribers and placate complaints, rumours.
Thirdly, there is a wrong assumption that this complains comprise large majority but there is a possibility that newspaper has broadcasted some radical and contentious news, as a result, some people feel uncomfortable and tried to interrupt this process by denigrating and threatening this newspaper before things get serious for these related ones.
Lastly, I recommend that they should first elaborata sources of these complaints which may involve politicians or famous one get interrupted and try to inhibit as precaution. After assuring this, they should conduct a research on evaluation of cooperation between young and experienced ones through human relations. Following with this analysis, if there seems advices or etc. They should reckon on number of employees in order to chec whether it is enough for their efficacy and quality or not.
In conclusion, all things considered, this local newspaper should contemplate and clarify these logical fallacies before taking any action.
- Governments should invest as much in the arts as they do in the military. 83
- A true university encompasses far more than the narrow specialized study of a single discipline. Only through exploring the broad spectrum of liberal arts courses can the students become truly learned. 70
- The real talent of a popular musician cannot accurately be assessed until the musician has been dead for several generations, so that his or her fame does not interfere with honest assessment. 16
- Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than 42
- "In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach." 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 145, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hiring older and experienced journalists rather younger, further, for next step...
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Line 1, column 162, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...experienced journalists rather younger, further, for next step they plan to fir...
^^
Line 1, column 172, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d journalists rather younger, further, for next step they plan to fire younger ...
^^
Line 3, column 688, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...nvironment and accordingly there can be an decrease in excitement of readers. ...
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Line 5, column 105, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun journalist seems to be countable; consider using: 'few journalists'.
Suggestion: few journalists
... due to lack of enough employees, thus, few journalist cannot control and create great work bu...
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Line 5, column 298, Rule ID: NEW_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'innovation'.
Suggestion: innovation
...s we know, it is also vital to catch up new innovation within a sector and may be some of youn...
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Line 9, column 217, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...fter assuring this, they should conduct a research on evaluation of cooperation between yo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, however, if, lastly, look, may, nonetheless, second, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 11.1786427146 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2279.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 411.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54501216545 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07437268304 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 204.123752495 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569343065693 0.468620217663 121% => OK
syllable_count: 698.4 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.7895917803 57.8364921388 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.933333333 119.503703932 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.46666666667 5.70786347227 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.0909295458743 0.218282227539 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0315143346181 0.0743258471296 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0247786723656 0.0701772020484 35% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0482207081848 0.128457276422 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0182989329317 0.0628817314937 29% => 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: 18.4 14.3799401198 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.3550499002 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.21 12.5979740519 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.32208582834 121% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 98.500998004 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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