“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 the station’s coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled 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 the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs.”
The author's conclusion, to revert back to previous timing's of the weather and local news to it's former level is based on the evidence that viewer's complaints and decrease in advertisers were due the decrease in weather and local news durations. This argument is full of assumptions which requires certain evidence to be less ambiguous.
To begin, there is no evidence which connnects the loss of advertisers directly to decrease in local and weather news. It can be the case that they don't require advertisment for upcoming period of time. For instance, there are no advertisment related to fan or cooler in the winters. As there are only needed for summer season hence, there is no need for advertisment after summer season is complete. For this reason, it requires an evidence which directly states or estimates are the relation between advertiser's and news that is being broadcasted.
Secondly, there is no evidence which suggests that increase in the local and weather news duration will commensurately increase number of viewers. For instance, it may be possible that the number of complaints recieved concerning the decrease in local or weather news are just a few. In that case there is no reason to increase the duration of the two. Again, there is requirement of evidence (perhaps a survey) which gives us preference of the local people for the television broadcast.
Finally, there is no evidence which states that local buisnesses correspond to a significant amount of total revenue generated by the television station. It can be the case that local buiseness contribution to the revenue is negligible. Also, it is possible that local advertisers are decreasing but overall number of advertisers are increasing gradually. If that is the truth then it makes the argument weaker. Hence, there is a requirement for evidence which shows overall revenue with time.
In conclusion, author's argument as it stands now is completely flawed and requires further evidence to be e
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 325 350
No. of Characters: 1628 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.246 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.009 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.825 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 120 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.118 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.729 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.338 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.557 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 2, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
The authors conclusion, to revert back t...
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Line 1, column 10, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
The authors conclusion, to revert back to previous ...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rtain evidence to be less ambiguous. To begin, there is no evidence which con...
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Line 3, column 153, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ther news. It can be the case that they dont require advertisment for upcoming perio...
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Line 3, column 192, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... dont require advertisment for upcoming period of time. For instance, there are no advertismen...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...and news that is being broadcasted. Secondly, there is no evidence which sug...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...people for the television broadcast. Finally, there is no evidence which stat...
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Line 7, column 361, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...f advertisers are increasing gradually. If that is the truth then it makes the arg...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ich shows overall revenue with time. In conclusion, authors argument as it st...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1669.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 325.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13538461538 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86924685498 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 204.123752495 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.433846153846 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 531.9 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.5409496281 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.1764705882 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1176470588 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.35294117647 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.176549937835 0.218282227539 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0647357080904 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0707338505858 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110261270149 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0777493479641 0.0628817314937 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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