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's recent success with call-in advice programming, and citing a nationwide survey indicating that many radio listeners are quite interested in such programs, the station manager of KICK in Medway recommends that KICK include more call-in advice programs in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
While it may be true that if Medway radio station increases the number of call-in advice program, the number of radio listeners may increase, this author's argument does not make a cogent case. It is easy to understand that Rockville radio listeners are interested to the program, but this argument is rife with holes and assumptions, and thus, strong enough to lead to increase the number of call-in advice programs in Medway radio station.
The author mentions that the number of radio audiences in radio station WCQP in Rockville has increased significantly in the past two years because of call-in advice program, but the author does not give any information about statistic. There is no information about the total number of radio listeners in Rockville two years ago and the total number radio listeners now that can make a different perspective. For instance, imagine the total number of radio listeners in Rockville was a hundred two years ago with ten people interested in call-in service program, and the total number is two hundred now and the interested call-in audiences are forty people now. Thus, it does not show the significate increase.
Additionally, the author compares two different radio stations in two different regions, which is not logical. For example, Rockville may have more retired people who have time to listen to the radio and call for that program that can be reason for increased number of interests. On the other hand, Medway may have more young people who only have time to listen to the radio while they drive and do not have time to call-in. Thus, the number of interested listeners to the program will not increase in Medway. To strength his/her suggestion, the author needs to investigate about age and gender group of listeners.
Citing a national survey, the author reports radio listeners’ love of call-in program. It is not clear, however, the scope and validity of the survey. For instance, there might be only few yes and no questions in that survey which cannot give us reliable results. Unless the survey is fully representative, valid, and reliable, it cannot be used to effectively back the author’s argument.
The author can make his/her suggestion persuasive when he/she gathers information about statistic number of increased listeners, age and gender of radio listeners in Rockville and Medway, and survey detailed questions. After answering these questions, he/she can make such a conclusion.
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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: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 405 350
No. of Characters: 1997 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.486 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.931 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.548 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.824 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.848 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.387 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.387 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.223 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 186, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun yes seems to be countable; consider using: 'few yeses', 'few yesses'.
Suggestion: few yeses; few yesses
...rvey. For instance, there might be only few yes and no questions in that survey which c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, thus, while, for example, for instance, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2055.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 401.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1246882793 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68160864621 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.423940149626 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 642.6 705.55239521 91% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.2623664188 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.882352941 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5882352941 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94117647059 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.410381189278 0.218282227539 188% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140073642048 0.0743258471296 188% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125630774261 0.0701772020484 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231524751227 0.128457276422 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.134974674969 0.0628817314937 215% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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