The following is a memorandum from the bussiness 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 local news and weather news. During this period most of the complaints recieved from the veiwers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local bussiness that used to asdvertise during our late-night program with us has cancelled thier advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid loosing 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 prompt suggest there should more coverage of the weather and local news in contrast to the coverage of the national news. The prompt fails to answer some questions, which if not answered will definitely make the assumption hold no water. If the prompt can considerably provide answers to some litany questions being asked then might be justifiable.
Firstly, the prompt solely blames the loss of thier advertising contracts on the less coverage of the weather and local news but they gave no answers to if they have much resources to put out those kind of news, or is thier resources only circumscribed towards only national new? The memorandum also fails to tell us where the statistics was gotten from indicating what is the percentage of the viewers who complained about the local and weather news to general people who view the program. Are the statistics in correspondence and substainable to the total viewers? Or it just represent a certain fraction of discontented viewers? I feel an aswer to this has to be given in other to first accept the assumption.
Secondly, the manager talked about attarcting more viewers to program it has to increase the coverage of the program, but it also fails to tell us if the viewers actually really care about such news or its just thier assumption. It fails to tell us what the viewers actually really enjoy from the late night program, rather just gave us a generic assumption and conclusion towards that.
Lastly, it talks about the increase in revenue from the advertising outlet tantamount to the increase coverage of the local and weather news , on what basis is that? We can just term this a mere assumptionn with no justifiable fact towards it, we don't know if the advertising outlet are discontented towards the way thier product is being advertised by thier services, we cant really say! The bussiness manager has to do some emperical analysis and come with a more convincing fact.
In conclusion, the argument is greatly flawed because it relies on several unwarranted assumption which can belie the real reason towards the less advertising revenue or less viewers. If the prompt can give a more solid evidence (preferrably in a form of systemic research), then we might be able to validate the claim of the argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 387 350
No. of Characters: 1856 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.435 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.796 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.677 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.998 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.352 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.596 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.166 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
The prompt suggest there should more cov...
^^^^^^
Line 1, column 182, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...t fails to answer some questions, which if not answered will definitely make the a...
^^
Line 1, column 249, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...tely make the assumption hold no water. If the prompt can considerably provide ans...
^^
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...being asked then might be justifiable. Firstly, the prompt solely blam...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 176, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...ut they gave no answers to if they have much resources to put out those kind of news...
^^^^
Line 3, column 202, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'those kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; those kinds
... if they have much resources to put out those kind of news, or is thier resources only cir...
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Line 3, column 347, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...so fails to tell us where the statistics was gotten from indicating what is the p...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ther to first accept the assumption. Secondly, the manager talked about attar...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...umption and conclusion towards that. Lastly, it talks about the increase in r...
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Line 7, column 149, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...e coverage of the local and weather news , on what basis is that? We can just term...
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Line 7, column 256, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...with no justifiable fact towards it, we dont know if the advertising outlet are disc...
^^^^
Line 7, column 381, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... being advertised by thier services, we cant really say! The bussiness manager has t...
^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nd come with a more convincing fact. In conclusion, the argument is greatly f...
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Line 9, column 178, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun viewers is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...towards the less advertising revenue or less viewers. If the prompt can give a more ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, really, second, secondly, so, then, as to, i feel, in conclusion, in contrast, kind of, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1899.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91968911917 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73035048052 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.484455958549 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 585.0 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 73.1809680288 57.8364921388 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.642857143 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5714285714 23.324526521 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7857142857 5.70786347227 189% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => 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: 0.216933474835 0.218282227539 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0765660892456 0.0743258471296 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0861597583809 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117718485927 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0551996319468 0.0628817314937 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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