The following is a memorandum from the business 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 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.
The author's claim in the memorandum is that if the weather and local news program returned to the same time as it was previously, local businesses will return the contract which they had before. Moreover, there are some carpings about local news program regarding the national news program. If it is for the author to have a strong base in those assumptions, he should provide more proves for each of them.
First of all, it is stated that viewers complaint about weather and local news, however the author fails to prove the stated assumption. As it happened in period of one year, viewers may have changed their preferences for watching national news instead of local news. For example, those viewers who at first composed only by adults, now it may composed by merely teenagers who do not care about weather of watching local news.
Furthermore, the cancelation contracts may have happened due to the fact that there are no more people watching programs, thus local businesses are not having audience and not making any profits at all.
Moreover, stating that restoring the time devoted to weather and local news may not necessarily work again because as it was said previously the audience may have changed and then, those programs are unlikely to become successful again.
Finally, if the author wants to strenght his argument, he should have provided enough evidences which would support and be the basement for the argument at all.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 33, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'viewers'' or 'viewer's'?
Suggestion: viewers'; viewer's
...them. First of all, it is stated that viewers complaint about weather and local news,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, thus, for example, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 55.5748502994 45% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1208.0 2260.96107784 53% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 242.0 441.139720559 55% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99173553719 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 4.56307096286 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47617222021 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 204.123752495 64% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.54132231405 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 370.8 705.55239521 53% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6929895653 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.222222222 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8888888889 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.1111111111 5.70786347227 212% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.251912808153 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12434545587 0.0743258471296 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0980576353518 0.0701772020484 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130065239302 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0991995678975 0.0628817314937 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 98.500998004 53% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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