Since those issues of Newsbeat magazine that featured political news on their front cover were the poorest-selling issues over the past three years, the publisher of Newsbeat has recommended that the magazine curtail its emphasis on politics to focus more exclusively on economics and personal finance. She points to a recent survey of readers of general interest magazines that indicates greater reader interest in economic issues than in political ones. Newsbeat's editor, however, opposes the proposed shift in editorial policy, pointing out that very few magazines offer extensive political coverage anymore.
As the prompt tells us, The publisher of Newsbeat recommends that the magazine stop its emphasis on political news and instead, focus on economics and personal finance. The argument is based on a recent survey of readers of general interest magazines suggesting that readers are more interested in economic issues than political ones and on the assumption that the decreased sales of the Newsbeat magazine with political news on the front cover. Before the argument can be accepted, we need to analyze three questions as explained below.
First of all, is Newsbeat magazine, even remotely, comparable to the General interest magazines? Can the results from a general survey be applicable to Newsbeat situation? Perhaps, the general interest magazines are catered to more generic public who are interested in personal finance and money management who prefer economic news. Maybe the readers in the survey don't include all categories of readers and might even be biased. Even if the results of the survey is apathetic and inclusive of all types of readers, it might not be necessarily true that the results will be beneficial for Newsbeat magazine. So, it is not certain that the survey results are good enough for making changes to the magazine.
Similarly, Are the readers of Newsbeat magazine and the general interests magazine the same? The general interest magazines cater to a variety of readers whereas Newsbeat magazine might be more specific in the contents of the magazine, focusing mostly on a particular topic. Similarly, the places where the magazine was sold might include readers who are not much interested in Political news.
Perhaps, there had been significant changes and development in economic sectors within the last three years because of which political news was overshadowed. The sales information from only three years might not be much to infer necessary information to predict if the readers are interested in politics.
Hence, the argument is flawd in different ways and the conclusion made is probably not true. Also, as the editor of Newsbeat suggests, the magazine should not change its content to economical as very few magazines offer extensive political coverage as done by Newsbeat which might be beneficial to the magazine to target a particular niche. Before the conclusion can be accepted, the unanswered questions must be analyzed to remove irrelevant assumptions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, may, similarly, so, whereas, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2039.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 384.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30989583333 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7601599232 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447916666667 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 668.7 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.7254143036 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.941176471 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5882352941 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.82352941176 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.283193759191 0.218282227539 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102989540639 0.0743258471296 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101837904154 0.0701772020484 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182677300152 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111383840107 0.0628817314937 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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.