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 prompt supports the incentive on behalf of a television station to increase their coverage of weather and local news rather than national news. Although the conclusive evidences are not yet cleared, it would be better to point out the logical flaws of the assumptions implicit in the prompt -
1. The business manager expects that his viewers will be available just to be notified about the weather and local news during any of their schedule of broadcast.
2. The viewers will be available or interested enough to acknowledge the news regarding local and weather even at late night, pressumbly at the time of advertising broadcasts.
3. The station will gain same amount of profit by broadcasting local and weather news late at night in place of advertising local businesses.
4. Compalints have been filed from majority of the viewers.
The conjectures mentioned here are hereby scrutinized with proper reasonings.
To begin with - the manager of the television station believed that people; viewing their programes will be interested enough to witness those 24 hours a day. But hat might not turned out to be the case. What if the the spectators love the the news during their exhausting period pr after their working hour and that does not necessarily mean late at night. Some people might work late at night and have family time in the morning. Some might not be interested enough to hear the news of local and weather after coming from late night work even though they are free at that time. If these are the cases - then it might not be a wise decision to replace the local business advertisements with news of local and weather.
Also, there is no clear evidence mentioning how much people have liked their news from various topics and no clear data confirming whether the complained filed by majority of the viewers or minority of them. The prompt said that "most of the complaints" not majority of the people. What does it mean? It might mean that - majority of the complaints informed to them might be from the same viewer. What if an individual viewer has multiple problems than majority of the viewers who might be absolutely fine with the station's broadcasting. Now in this - if the manager takes down all the news portals except that of local ones then - he should think of this decsion twice before counting on it.
Apart from that - it is pressumed by the manager that the TV station will gain similar amount of profit from the broadcasting of local and weather news as from the local business advertisements. But the manager is missing out a point - that is - what if the revenues he will get from the overtime broadcasting of local news do not stand with that of the advertising broadcasts? It might happen that people working late night might be interested to those advertisements rather than hearing the boring news of local weather. In that case - the station will not get same amount of revenue it previously got from the local business.
So, looking at all the factors and elements aforementioned; it might be a better decision to have clear understanding of the assumptions and sort out the questions unanswered providing necessary evidences before coming to any conclusion.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 543 350
No. of Characters: 2598 1500
No. of Different Words: 219 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.827 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.785 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.622 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 168 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 128 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.393 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.923 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.393 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.289 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.48 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 297, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the assumptions implicit in the prompt - 1. The business manager expects that his...
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Line 5, column 3, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...the time of advertising broadcasts. 3. The station will gain same amount of profit...
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Line 9, column 213, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
... not turned out to be the case. What if the the spectators love the the news during the...
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Line 9, column 213, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
... not turned out to be the case. What if the the spectators love the the news during the...
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Line 9, column 237, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...e case. What if the the spectators love the the news during their exhausting period pr ...
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Line 9, column 237, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...e case. What if the the spectators love the the news during their exhausting period pr ...
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Line 9, column 450, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y time in the morning. Some might not be interested enough to hear the news of lo...
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Line 11, column 49, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...ere is no clear evidence mentioning how much people have liked their news from vario...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, regarding, so, then, apart from, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 55.5748502994 149% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2680.0 2260.96107784 119% => OK
No of words: 543.0 441.139720559 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93554327808 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82725184711 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73015098182 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.427255985267 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 810.9 705.55239521 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.3337148341 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.666666667 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.625 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.79166666667 5.70786347227 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 10.0 5.15768463074 194% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.333717452378 0.218282227539 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105592921415 0.0743258471296 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.086207591026 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142594755502 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0935575482001 0.0628817314937 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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