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 argument is related to telivision news channel. It asserts that increased time for showing national news and less broadcasting of local and weather of late-night news program resulted in loss of viewership and advertisments. Losing advertisements will reduces revenues of news channel. In order to overcome these problems, the author states that the more time should be devoted to weather and local news as earlier.
Firstly, the author has not mentioned how much more time the news channel is devoting to the national news. It will help us in deciding whether increase in time for national news can really impact viewers. Though, the author mentioned that their were complaints related to coverage of local and business news. The author should provide number of people watching the night news program and number of people complained. It may be the case that there are 1000 people watching the program but only 5 people complained about showing local and weather news.
Secondly, the author stated that few local business have just canceled their advertising contracts with the news channel. But, the author failed to mention any correlation between cancelling th advertisement contracts and showing local and weather news. He has not mentioned the existing number of advertisers advertising their companies during night time program and number of advertisers cancelling the contract. The reason for advertising the contract can be anything and not solely realted to showing local news and coverage.
Finally, the author has not mentioned current standing of news channel compared to its competitors. The author should some more information related to viewership market share and number of advertiers of their company. It may be the case that quality of national news at night news programme is not good which resulted in the cancellation of contracts of few advertisers and moving to different news progarms. It is very difficult to determine the impact on viewership and advertisements based on only the past year.
In conclusion, in order to prove the author's argument, he should more information and statistics about news coverage discussed in the points above. The author should provide information related to the number of viewers and complaints received. In order to prove his point, he should provide more information about different advertisers during night news programme and also its competitors shows during the same time in order to say it as true.
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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: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 12 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 393 350
No. of Characters: 2041 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.452 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.193 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.726 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.65 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.529 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.45 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.388 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.565 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.147 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 140, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...onal news and less broadcasting of local and weather of late-night news program r...
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Line 1, column 258, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'reduce'
Suggestion: reduce
...vertisments. Losing advertisements will reduces revenues of news channel. In order to o...
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Line 5, column 368, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... companies during night time program and number of advertisers cancelling the con...
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Line 9, column 38, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... In conclusion, in order to prove the authors argument, he should more information an...
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Line 9, column 439, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'trues'?
Suggestion: trues
...ing the same time in order to say it as true.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2085.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 393.0 441.139720559 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30534351145 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45244063426 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78147194612 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.412213740458 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 628.2 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.3491633106 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.25 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.65 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.4 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
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: 0.36439662291 0.218282227539 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136456815869 0.0743258471296 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.086044767533 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.240629434 0.128457276422 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.096989748634 0.0628817314937 154% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => 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: 13.52 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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