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.”
The given statement discusses the effects of change in the news type displayed on the channel during the past year and proposes a solution for those effects but the statement which is discussed here is irregular and ambiguous to give a proper idea of the statement.
As the statement denotes that they have given more time to national news than the weather and local news but there isn't any point mentioned about the change in viewership of the audience in the past year. There may be an increase or decrease in the audience over the past year.
Next, the statement says that the channel has received complaints regarding the station's coverage of weather and local news but there isn't any information about the nature of those complaints like what exactly people are concerned about, is it the timing of the news or about the information given in the news or any wrong information presented accidentally by the channel also, there isn't any information about the number of complaints received by the channel and how much percentage of the total viewership they represent
Also, there isn't any information about the locations from which these complaints are coming. This can be a major issue if they are coming from regions that are not the targeted region for the channel's business.
Next, we can't attribute the cancelation of the advertising contracts directly to the reduction in the timings of local news. There can be many reasons like cutdown in the marketing spend by the businesses which ultimately resulted in the cancellation of advertising contracts or it may be an issue of the late-night timings because businesses may have noticed that there aren't many people watching late-night news so we can't exactly identify the issues about a reduction in advertising revenues for the channel from the given statement.
so, changing the decision to restore the former model for weather and local news is highly flawed and contains many loopholes. It is advisable to first identify Maximum reasons for declining advertisement revenues from local businesses, Change in viewership in the past year, revise late night timings for news broadcast, etc. to make effective decisions in such situations.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 367 350
No. of Characters: 1817 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.377 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.951 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.719 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 124 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 23.011 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.818 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.402 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.738 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.14 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 116, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...an the weather and local news but there isnt any point mentioned about the change in...
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Line 5, column 81, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...l has received complaints regarding the stations coverage of weather and local news but ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 135, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...age of weather and local news but there isnt any information about the nature of tho...
^^^^
Line 5, column 386, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...accidentally by the channel also, there isnt any information about the number of com...
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Line 7, column 13, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...iewership they represent Also, there isnt any information about the locations fro...
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Line 9, column 10, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... for the channels business. Next, we cant attribute the cancelation of the advert...
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Line 9, column 372, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
... businesses may have noticed that there arent many people watching late-night news so...
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Line 9, column 421, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...y people watching late-night news so we cant exactly identify the issues about a red...
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Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: So
...he channel from the given statement. so, changing the decision to restore the f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, regarding, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1849.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 362.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10773480663 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7117519782 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447513812155 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 705.55239521 82% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
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: 36.0 22.8473053892 158% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 166.994730456 57.8364921388 289% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 184.9 119.503703932 155% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.2 23.324526521 155% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.70786347227 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.302184458428 0.218282227539 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133015714272 0.0743258471296 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0804209733844 0.0701772020484 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162245896825 0.128457276422 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0841369155249 0.0628817314937 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.7 14.3799401198 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.94 48.3550499002 72% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.3 12.197005988 142% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.95 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 11.1389221557 147% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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