In this argument, the author concludes that the coverage of weather and local news should be expanded to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues. To substantiate this conclusion, the author provides several pieces of evidence to support the argument. However, the line of reasoning is problematic due to some oversimplified assumptions which, if proven unwarranted, will seriously weaken the argument.
First, the argument depends on the assumption that increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news is responsible for the complaints received from viewers. Although coverage coincides with the complaints, it does not suffice to infer a cause-and-effect relationship between the two issues. It is possible that there are other factors contributing the complaints, such as the decreased quality of programs during that time. Without ruling out this possibility, the argument is not convincing.
Second, the author unwarrantedly assumes that weather and local news is unpopular among most viewers. However, the author just provides fact that most of the complaints is about weather and local news without giving the base number of complaints. It is possible that the number of complaints is too small to consider change the coverage if the base number of complaints is negligible. Therefore, the argument is questionable without taking this possibility into consideration.
Third, the groundless assumption is that increased time to national news causes the cancel of advertise contracts and there are no other factors responsible for the latter. There is no adequate evidence to confirm the causal relationship between national news and contracts, it is possible that the advertising company has been unaffordable to advertise during our late-night news program or the company has been satisfied with the effect of previous advertisement and loses the need for further advertisement. Without ruling out these possibilities, the argument is not reliable.
Forth, the author unwarrantedly assumes the causal relationship between expanding coverage of weather and local news and more viewers and advertising revenues. However, there is not any evidence to support this assumption. Therefore, the argument is unsubstantiate without providing more information about this issue.
To sum up, the questionable assumptions mentioned above would challenge the reliability of this argument.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 81, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... increased time to national news causes the cancel of advertise contracts and there are no...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2106.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 369.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.70731707317 5.12650576532 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14922406927 2.78398813304 113% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.449864498645 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 646.2 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.3780043934 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.0 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05555555556 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => 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: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296749066155 0.218282227539 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0921073635143 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10342849871 0.0701772020484 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152390435747 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.088909670419 0.0628817314937 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.3550499002 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.197005988 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.84 12.5979740519 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 81, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... increased time to national news causes the cancel of advertise contracts and there are no...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2106.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 369.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.70731707317 5.12650576532 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14922406927 2.78398813304 113% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.449864498645 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 646.2 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.3780043934 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.0 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05555555556 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => 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: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296749066155 0.218282227539 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0921073635143 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10342849871 0.0701772020484 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152390435747 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.088909670419 0.0628817314937 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.3550499002 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.197005988 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.84 12.5979740519 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.