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 argument here suggests that due to a decrease in time of weather and local news in the late night news program, viewers have stopped watching the show and have complained about the same along with business cancelling their contracts with the news channel, and to prevent any further loss of revenue generated from advertising and to increase the number of viewers they should increase the time of weather and local news. The argument here is resting on many unanswered assumptions two of which are discussed in the below paragraphs.
Firstly, argument does not provide enough evidence that the complaints received after the decrease in time of weather and local news has actually reduced their views. It might be that after increasing the national news time they might have attracted more viewers as local new might be limited only to a particular state, but airing national news might attract viewers from all around the country and thereby increasing the actual number of viewers. Also the arguments vaguely sates that "most" complaints received from viewers were concerned with the coverage of weather and local news, but it nowhere gives an actual ratio of number of viewers after the reduction in time of weather and local news and the number of complaints generated. It might be that the news channel would be getting millions of views and the number of complaints received would be in thousands.
Secondly, argument mentions that local business have canceled their contracts with the news channel, but this could be a fallacie i.e., because the news time decreased for local news and weather, local business canceled their advertising contracts with the news channel. In the given memorandum there is no strong evidence as such given to prove that because of the decrease in time of weather and local news, the business have canceled their contracts, it might be that business can no longer afford a separate budget for adverting and must be forced to cancel their adverting contracts in order to prevent themselves from declaring bankruptcy.
So based on the stated assumption the and effect it has on the validity of the argument it cannot be efficiently concluded that decrease in time of weather and local news has actually caused a decrease in viewership and loss of revenue. The argument need to provide some strong evidences for the above mentioned assumptions in order to draw a valid 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: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 401 350
No. of Characters: 1988 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.475 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.958 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.503 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 40.1 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.444 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.477 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.691 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.15 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 313, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nt any further loss of revenue generated from advertising and to increase the num...
^^
Line 3, column 450, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ncreasing the actual number of viewers. Also the arguments vaguely sates that '...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, second, secondly, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2037.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 400.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0925 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60080636534 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.42 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 622.8 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => 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: 40.0 22.8473053892 175% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 103.134087478 57.8364921388 178% => OK
Chars per sentence: 203.7 119.503703932 170% => OK
Words per sentence: 40.0 23.324526521 171% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.352284033676 0.218282227539 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.156624399525 0.0743258471296 211% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106219388662 0.0701772020484 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228638454716 0.128457276422 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0782616308912 0.0628817314937 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 22.5 14.3799401198 156% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.88 48.3550499002 64% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.9 12.197005988 155% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 18.0 11.1389221557 162% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.9071856287 151% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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