"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.
Although the memorandum from the business manager can surely be a matter of concern for the television station, as the viewers complain about their needs. But the assumptions made by the business manager does not reveal the actual cause. Firstly, the manager should provide a detailed explanation, about the programs being offered a year before and how many households have been benefitted by their television station. Was their business showed an increase or decrease and how popular it was before. Viewers' reviews could have been a good source of data.
Secondly, national news is important for citizens of a country, but local news makes people aware of their locality. Also, people require weather news as well since it makes them prepared for different weather like snowfall, rainfall and others as a part of their safety measures. Hence the cause of giving less time to it should be known in order to find if the television station was actually showing the weather or not. Regarding the complaints of viewers, the manager should have mentioned if it were from old viewers or the new ones.
Lastly, cancellations of the advertising contracts does not evince that it is because of giving less time to local and weather news. A reason has to be provided so as to why they have done so. The television station might have failed to live up to their expectations due to its unpopularity. Or maybe they want a change in their preferred timings. Therefore knowing the reason is important.
To conclude, weather news and local news are of utmost importance as it helps in the well-being and awareness amongst the people. But to put forward the recommendation, a detailed survey and more evidence are needed.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 287 350
No. of Characters: 1388 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.116 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.836 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.605 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 106 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.938 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.466 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.296 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.511 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.054 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...could have been a good source of data. Secondly, national news is impo...
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Line 3, column 291, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ers as a part of their safety measures. Hence the cause of giving less time to it sho...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...were from old viewers or the new ones. Lastly, cancellations of the ad...
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Line 5, column 171, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ather news. A reason has to be provided so as to why they have done so. The television s...
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Line 5, column 358, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...nt a change in their preferred timings. Therefore knowing the reason is important. ...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...fore knowing the reason is important. To conclude, weather news and l...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 13.6137724551 7% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1431.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 287.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98606271777 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68989998375 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.560975609756 0.468620217663 120% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 705.55239521 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
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: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.0485611806 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.4375 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9375 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.25 5.70786347227 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.221931161783 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0665864229151 0.0743258471296 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0698856716579 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137534190111 0.128457276422 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0568628945712 0.0628817314937 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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