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 weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have just canceled 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.
The memorandum from the business manager for a television station does not accurately represent the whole of the presented problem. The argument overly weighs criticism of the current progam, does not consider other reasons for the loss of advertising contracts, and ultimately provides an extreme solution given the existing information.
One of the main pieces of supporting evidence is the fact that most of the complaints from viewers were regarding the coverage of weather and local news. The argument does not specify if the complaints were regarding the content or quantity of the local news coverage. Inclusion of this detail would be vital to improving the argument that quantity of local and weather coverage should be increased. Additionally, the current amount of complaints is not assessed against complaints prior to the change to national news. Without proper assessment of pre-existing conditions, this portion of the assessment lacks weight. An improvement of this argument would include specification regarding the breakdown between content and quantify critiques, as well as a comparison to data on complaints prior to the last year of programming.
The second supporting piece of evidence has similar issues, as it does not look at other reasons for loss of advertisement revenue. Due to an increase in programs such as Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime, many households are choosing to remove cable television entirely. Due to this switch in entertainment access, some advertisers are following suit and advertising elsewhere. The argument does not consider other reasons for loss of contacts. Additionally, the argument specifies that local businesses were cancelling advertising contracts. This may be due to another reason such as an already sustainable market without need for advertisement, or the choice to advertise elsewhere to better suit the businesses needs. The argument is being overtly presumptuous regarding the reason for cancelling, and assuming the reason being the cover of national news instead of local. Additional information, such as a survey to these businesses for a reason for cancellation, could benefit the argument.
Ultimately, the argument's supporting claims lack impact in the argument's favor. The inclusion of additional data regarding the amount and subject of the mentioned complaints, as well as the gap in knowledge around the reasons for contract cancellations would both benefit the argument. Comparing current and past contract loss, as well as complaint count and content, would be beneficial and provide a better scope for the argument instead of relying on the present. Given that both the critique and the loss of contracts arguments lack detail and numerical data, the decision to restore time devoted to weather and local news is a hasty plan. The claim that the channel should restore the coverage of weather and local news is unsupported by the current argument.
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Essay evaluation report
also need to argue:
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.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 456 350
No. of Characters: 2432 1500
No. of Different Words: 205 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.621 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.333 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.891 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 193 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 162 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 117 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.714 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.998 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.476 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.498 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, look, may, regarding, second, so, well, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2489.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 456.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45833333333 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62105577807 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97319818908 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.460526315789 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 761.4 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2225667416 57.8364921388 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.523809524 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181434185712 0.218282227539 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0647231489104 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718585062868 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111427274994 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0745063841305 0.0628817314937 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 98.500998004 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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.