“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 time period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station’s coverage of local and weather news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news programs have just cancelled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.”
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The business manager stated that it is necessary to restore the time devoted to weather and local news in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing advertising revenues; however, he fails to justify his stand by providing sufficient evidence.
The manager states that according to the past year's performance, most of the complaints from the viewers were concerned with the television station's coverage of weather and local news. The statement did not mention how the viewers' thoughts and opinion were collected, whether it was through surveys or personal interviews. It also did not mention the number of the viewers who made complaints and the total number of respondents. Therefore, the concerns regarding the coverage of weather and local news would not seem to be representative of all the station's audience. To strengthen his argument, a survey that inquries about program viewers' opinions on the decreased time of weather and local news is needed. A data comparison of the amount of viewers for the years before time of weather and local news was reduced and the years after that is also neccessary to find out whether the time really had effects on losing any audience.
Additionally, the manager also implicitly draws a conclusion that the less coverage of weather and local news results into less viewers of the program; however he only mentioned about getting complaints from the current viewers instead of the decrease in the number of total viewers. Even if the number of viewers has indeed decreased for the past year, other factors could also result in such decrease such as the change in the quality of the program, the rise of the station's competitors, and the change in the program directors.
On the other hand, while local businesses canceled their advertising contracts with the station, this fact is not strong enough to lead to weather and local news being the main reason for local businesses to keep contracts with the station before. Local businesses could also cancel their contracts for some other reasons like the closedown of local business, or they found other better deals for advertising. Bringing back the time devoted for local news and weather does not necessarily mean the advertising revenues will be brought up, not until the station figures out why local businesses canceled the contracts exactly.
To conclude, the statements the business manager is not likely significantly persuade the station to restore the time devoted to weather and local news since he has not provided with sufficient evidence and connections in his statements.
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Essay evaluation report
samples:
https://www.testbig.com/gmatgre-argument-task-essays/over-past-year-our…
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category:Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 425 350
No. of Characters: 2145 1500
No. of Different Words: 186 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.047 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.583 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 136 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.692 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.49 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.442 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.679 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.209 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 47, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...nager states that according to the past years performance, most of the complaints fro...
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Line 3, column 186, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ons coverage of weather and local news. The statement did not mention how the viewe...
^^^
Line 3, column 551, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...ot seem to be representative of all the stations audience. To strengthen his argument, a...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 124, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun viewers is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... of weather and local news results into less viewers of the program; however he only...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, really, regarding, so, then, therefore, while, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2186.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 425.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14352941176 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65783427719 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.449411764706 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 705.55239521 95% => 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: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.1996912778 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 168.153846154 119.503703932 141% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.6923076923 23.324526521 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.07692307692 5.70786347227 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.378703068574 0.218282227539 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161380647523 0.0743258471296 217% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0913762412354 0.0701772020484 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219178666735 0.128457276422 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0789576671428 0.0628817314937 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.1 14.3799401198 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.3550499002 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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
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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.