'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 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.”
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence would be needed in order to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The manager advocates resuming the amount of time allocated for weather and local news to the previous level because of the complaints from viewers and the cancellation of advertisements from local businesses companies. however, before taking any action, we should gather more information and approach the idea of making changes with more caution.
In the first place, a comprehensive survey on the opinion of viewers and local businesses toward the program's previous adjustment should be conducted. The memorandum reports viewers' concerns about the coverage of weather and local news. however, the nature of the complaints is not clear. Firstly, it is unknown how many viewers are not satisfied with the change. Furthermore, those complaints may actually demand more time for weather and local news than shortening those sections. Besides the complaints received, some of the audience may content with the arrangement but did not give feedback to the stations. hence, the station acquires information about how much the audience is unsatisfied and happy with the previous change. if such a survey is impossible, we should at least know about the detailed numbers of the complaints and their attitude toward the reduced time for weather and local news. Positive feedback will undermine the conclusion drawn by the business manager, and vice versa. Thus, our first step should be establishing the relationship between the viewer's dissatisfaction and the shortened time of local news and weather.
Another evidence that can benefit our analysis is the situation and opinion of the local businesses that canceled the advertisement. The cancellation may due to many reasons and it is too soon to blame the new arrangement of the program. For example, those companies may change their marketing strategies and were planning to advertise in early time-slots. Or, they are cutting the budgets on the advertisement. Given that many local businesses are withdrawing their advertisement, there could be external factors affecting their decision. In such a situation, resuming the original arrangement is not likely to attract them. On the other hand, if the decrease time for weather and local news is the reason why those companies canceled the advertisement, we should rewind the change.
The manager should also review research conducted to find ways to attract viewers. there are many ways to attract more views and the manager mention in the memorandum. Since television programs are a highly competitive market, sticking to the old strategy and format may not be the optimal choice. Perhaps some viewers are turned into other stations where something in their programs have drawn their attention. other stations in the same time-slots may adapts new plans and invigorating themselves and are or soon will outperforming the shows. hence, data about the viewers' rating the different kinds of elements in the program and what genre received most applause from the audience should help the manager to make the decision.
hence, without further information on these aspects, the claim that restoring time allocation in the program can prevent losing advertisement is far-fetching.
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- Over the past year our late night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news During the same time period most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with th 73
- 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 time period most of the complain 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, thus, at least, for example, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2711.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 497.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45472837022 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86672098737 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478873239437 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 824.4 705.55239521 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.7106547723 57.8364921388 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.269230769 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1153846154 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92307692308 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.274847767337 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0732089251258 0.0743258471296 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.074635009166 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153468659481 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502767883951 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 98.500998004 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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.