"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled 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 the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
The author present the case of a television station. He supposes that the change in time allotted to the weather and local news has had adverse effects on the station. In order to compensate for the losses he proposes to increase the time devoted to the local and weather news. However the argument is not tenable as it lacks valid evidences. Also the manager makes several unwarranted assumptions. As a result the argument becomes dubious.
The first problem with the argument is the vague terminology. The manager mentions that the program has increased the time alloted to national new and truncated the time of weather and local news. However he doesn't specify how much was the decrease, 2 hours or 10 min? Next he states that during this time period, most of the complaints received were related to the coverage of weather and local news. Here also the wording is ambigious. The author should have mentioned the exact number of complaints and also the figure of complains which were related to the weather and local news.
Next the author assumes that the complaints were due to the reduced coverage of the weather and local news. However it could be the case that the complains were related to the content of the weather and local news. Maybe the local news covered a scandalous story about their beloved politician. That is why many people are carping about it. Thus in order to validate his assumption the author should have mentioned solid evidences that describes the complaints.
Moreover the author states the the local businesses canceled the advertising contracts with the station. Here the author confuses the cause and effect. He presumes that the contracts were terminated only because of the curtailed weather and local news. However there could have been alternative reasons . Maybe the relation between the company and the station had worsened over the years. Or perhaps the popularity of the station has decreased ; a new station is gaining popularity. Also these could also attribute to the cancellation of the contracts.
Finally the author concludes that by restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level will have the desired effect of attracting more viewers and losing further revenues. However this conclusion is based on fallacious logic. The revenue loss and the viewers are not directly associated with the local and weather news. All this faulty assumptions lead to an untenable conclusion. To bolster the conclusion the author could have provided certain facts or statistics that explicitly shows the link between the viewers , revenues and the time alloted to the weather and local news.
To recapitulate the author argument is based on vague terminology, erroneous assumptions. Also there are no specific evidences to corroborate the claim. Hence the author's conclusion the by increasing the allotted time to the local and weather news, more viwers will be attracted and revenues will not decrease further, is incredible.
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- "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned wit 63
- "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned wit 77
- "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned wi 54
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
argument 4 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 32 15
No. of Words: 489 350
No. of Characters: 2449 1500
No. of Different Words: 208 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.702 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.008 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.536 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 180 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 153 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.281 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.273 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.468 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 279, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... devoted to the local and weather news. However the argument is not tenable as it lacks...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 344, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ot tenable as it lacks valid evidences. Also the manager makes several unwarranted a...
^^^^
Line 1, column 400, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... makes several unwarranted assumptions. As a result the argument becomes dubious. ...
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Line 3, column 198, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ted the time of weather and local news. However he doesnt specify how much was the decr...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 209, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e of weather and local news. However he doesnt specify how much was the decrease, 2 ho...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ted to the weather and local news. Next the author assumes that the complai...
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Line 7, column 109, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...coverage of the weather and local news. However it could be the case that the complains...
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Line 7, column 342, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...s why many people are carping about it. Thus in order to validate his assumption the...
^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...ences that describes the complaints. Moreover the author states the the local busines...
^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 28, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...mplaints. Moreover the author states the the local businesses canceled the advertisi...
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Line 9, column 28, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...mplaints. Moreover the author states the the local businesses canceled the advertisi...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 254, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...f the curtailed weather and local news. However there could have been alternative reaso...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 303, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...here could have been alternative reasons . Maybe the relation between the company ...
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Line 9, column 484, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... ; a new station is gaining popularity. Also these could also attribute to the cance...
^^^^
Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...o the cancellation of the contracts. Finally the author concludes that by restoring ...
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Line 11, column 196, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...re viewers and losing further revenues. However this conclusion is based on fallacious ...
^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 540, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...citly shows the link between the viewers , revenues and the time alloted to the we...
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Line 13, column 91, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...gue terminology, erroneous assumptions. Also there are no specific evidences to corr...
^^^^
Line 13, column 154, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...fic evidences to corroborate the claim. Hence the authors conclusion the by increasin...
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Line 13, column 164, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ces to corroborate the claim. Hence the authors conclusion the by increasing the allott...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, in fact, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2511.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 488.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14549180328 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60655388148 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.444672131148 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 787.5 705.55239521 112% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 19.7664670659 162% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.8473053892 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.9737837961 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.46875 119.503703932 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.25 23.324526521 65% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.875 5.70786347227 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 20.0 5.25449101796 381% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 6.88822355289 218% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.342376069116 0.218282227539 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0867133454486 0.0743258471296 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112732724668 0.0701772020484 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198838503716 0.128457276422 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0864209116047 0.0628817314937 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.3799401198 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 48.3550499002 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 12.3882235529 44% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.1389221557 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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