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.
The author of the argument vouches for the implementation of call-in advice program in KICK radio station in Medway. The conclusion is based on the premise that same kind of implementation had increased the radio audience of WCQP radio station in Rockville. The argument seems convincing on first sight. Nevertheless, on further analysis, the argument is rife with flaws and assumptions, and thus, not strong enough to lead to suggested changed in KICK radio station.
Firstly, the argument states that WCQP radio station in Rockville took a decision to implement more call-in advice programs in their broadcast. However, it is not clear in the argument why this decision was taken. For example, WCQP was a new radio station in Rockville and it wanted to make a name for itself by doing something new, or other programs were not popular. Thus, the question why WCQP increased their call-in advice programs need to be answered by the author, so as to make his/her argument more appealing.
Moreover, the author provides insufficient data regarding the survey conducted as an evidence to WCQP's success. The number of people considered for the survey and whether they comprise of people from all age groups and cover all the areas in all the cities has to be ascertained. Additionally, the authority conducting the survey has to be mentioned. If the authority is an unknown one, or if the methods conducted for surveying are not well-established, then it is least likely that the survey is authentic and reliable. Since the nationwide survey is quoted as a substantial evidence, more details regarding the same are necessary. Above all, the actual number of people interested in listening to the call-in advice programs and the total population as such must be mentioned in the argument to avoid ambiguity.
Lastly, the author assumes that the method which worked for WCQP in Rockville two years ago, will work for KICK in Medway in the current situation. The author should situation of WCQP when it applied this program two years ago and the situation of KICK in the current day and age. Two years is a very long time, and a lot can change in that time. So, the author need to confirm that both the circumstances are comparable to each other and the solution of increasing call-in programs will positively affect KICK in the recent times.
Thus, in conclusion, the author could have firmly established that call-in programs were the only cause for WCQP's success by discounting other possibilities with valid evidence. Hence, the argument has room for improvement and cannot be taken for implementation in the current state.
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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: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 437 350
No. of Characters: 2140 1500
No. of Different Words: 198 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.572 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.897 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.719 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 158 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.85 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.981 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.325 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.563 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.112 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 259, 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.
...nce of WCQP radio station in Rockville. The argument seems convincing on first sigh...
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Line 3, column 473, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...rams need to be answered by the author, so as to make his/her argument more appealing. ...
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Line 5, column 177, Rule ID: COMPRISE_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprise' or 'consist of'?
Suggestion: comprise; consist of
...sidered for the survey and whether they comprise of people from all age groups and cover al...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, hence, however, if, lastly, moreover, nevertheless, regarding, so, then, thus, well, as to, for example, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2198.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 436.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04128440367 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80726074723 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477064220183 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 670.5 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9241982206 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.9 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.15 5.70786347227 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301965468289 0.218282227539 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0906145800197 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0880911897 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162888818444 0.128457276422 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100362347725 0.0628817314937 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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