The argument claims that increased share of radio audience occurred due to increase in call in advice programs and cites that nationwide survey also supported that many people were drawn to radio only because of call in programs. Though the argument may have some merit in claiming that call in advice program may had impact on increased share but the author uses poor reasoning to support his claim by using questionable premises and assumptions that makes the argument out to debate.
The argument assumes that only call -in advice programs was key parameter in increasing the share of radio audience ;But the argument does not show any evidence other than unsubstantiated premises which show that many listeners were interested in such programs. The argument could have considerably strengthened if author had mentioned all the other relavent parameters which might have had a major impact on radio broadcast success.
The argument also backs its claim by citing the survey as evidence where survey concluded that many radio listeners said they were interested but the argument is flawed ad that sample size of survey is not mentioned clearly and the survey might not be accurate representation of the entire population. The survey results might be skewed by many reasons as respondents might have inaccurately misinterpreted the questions or the survey might have given the respondents very few options and in which they might have choosen this one as they have no other reasonable choice in the options.
The argument also assumes that since the call in advice strategy worked for WCQP so it comes to the conclusion that it will also work for KICK. The argument states a false analogy by comparing two radio stations of two different places .The two places might be completely different in audience and their tastes .what has worked for some company may not work for other and what if wcqp earlier did not have such programs before and has just introduced. It might be the case that kick already has dedicated call in advice programs which need not be increased further as the users in this place might be bored by this programs and want to have other innovative programs.This anamoly of comparison could have reduced by showing that two places are similar in key aspects and have similar previous broadcast list.
Finally, The argument is out to debate as it has flaws and assumptions as stated earlier and could have further strengthened if has considered all the assumptions and provided evidence to support it.The author also uses the principle of generalization which might not be applied from one case to other case.
- The well being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority 58
- Some people believe that success in creative fields such as painting fiction writing and filmmaking primarily requires hard work and perseverance Others believe that such success mainly requires innate talents that cannot be learned 50
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject 60
- Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free 66
- Two years ago radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number of call in advice programs that it broadcast since that time its share of the radio audience in the Rockville listening area has increased significantly Given WCQP 039 s rec 59
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: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 439 350
No. of Characters: 2170 1500
No. of Different Words: 187 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.577 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.943 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.589 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 43.9 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.83 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.482 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.482 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.16 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 25, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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The argument claims that increased share of radio audience occurr...
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...ed if author had mentioned all the other relavent parameters which might have ha...
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...ioned all the other relavent parameters which might have had a major impact on r...
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Line 3, column 1, 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.
...jor impact on radio broadcast success. The argument also backs its claim by citing...
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...adio listeners said they were interested but the argument is flawed ad that sam...
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...nterested but the argument is flawed ad that sample size of survey is not ment...
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...ted but the argument is flawed ad that sample size of survey is not mentioned ...
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...d ad that sample size of survey is not mentioned clearly and the survey might n...
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...epresentation of the entire population. The survey results might be skewed by many ...
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...sinterpreted the questions or the survey might have given the respondents very fe...
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...her reasonable choice in the options. The argument also assumes that since the ca...
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Line 4, column 145, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
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...lusion that it will also work for KICK. The argument states a false analogy by comp...
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Line 4, column 236, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
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...o radio stations of two different places .The two places might be completely diffe...
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...radio stations of two different places .The two places might be completely differen...
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...radio stations of two different places .The two places might be completely differen...
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...y different in audience and their tastes .what has worked for some company may not...
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...e users in this place might be bored by this programs and want to have other innovat...
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... want to have other innovative programs.This anamoly of comparison could have reduc...
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...tive programs.This anamoly of comparison could have reduced by showing that two p...
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...ons and provided evidence to support it.The author also uses the principle of gener...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, may, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2199.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 437.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03203661327 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6314376641 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.439359267735 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 694.8 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 43.0 22.8473053892 188% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.1354166317 57.8364921388 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 219.9 119.503703932 184% => OK
Words per sentence: 43.7 23.324526521 187% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 20.0 5.25449101796 381% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192614680297 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0956690613586 0.0743258471296 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0716236586507 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114309351437 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758756295247 0.0628817314937 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 24.1 14.3799401198 168% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 27.83 48.3550499002 58% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 20.1 12.197005988 165% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.78 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 19.2 11.1389221557 172% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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