"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 claims that the reduced time for weather and local news and increased time for national news had led an increased proportion of complaints regarding the weather and local news and cancellation of contract with local bussinesses which used to advertise in their television station. He is certain that an increased proportion of time for local news and weather is the solution to all their problems. But in order for this to be true,he forgot to address various issues.
The author mentions that during the time period when they reduced the time devoted to local and weather news, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with the stations coverage of the same, but he doesnt provide with the necessary details regarding the nature of the complaints. The complaints could be regarding the inaccurate prediction of the local weather, or false representation of the local incidents. If this is true then the authors argument is flawed. He needs to address the nature of the complaints to be certain that the increased time for local and weather news can attract more viewers.
His second assertion is that because of the reduced time of the local and weather news, there has been a decline in local businesses advertisement contracts with them. This is seriously flawed as well. The author never stoop to provide with the statistics regarding the contracts. If there were 10000 companies advertising in their station and only 100 cancelled them, then this has no major effect on the overall contract percentage. He has to provide with pertinent statistical data in order to prove his claim.
Also, if the local bussiness is forfeiting their contract with the station because of the decrease in their profit, then the authors assumption will prove to be invalid as well. Local bussinesses might be forfeiting their contracts with every station because of their decrease in profits. The author should also weigh in these firms reason for cancelling the contract. Lack of funds might be discouraging these firms to spend heavily on just advertising.
All of these evidence is required to properly come to a conclusion. The nature of complaints of the viewers, statistics regarding the total contracts and contracts that have been cancelled, local business reasons for cancelling the contract should be properly studied to be sureof the assertion and after that the station can decide whether they want to increase the time for the local and the weather news.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 139, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... news had led an increased proportion of complaints regarding the weather and loc...
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Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , he
...oblems. But in order for this to be true,he forgot to address various issues. Th...
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Line 3, column 180, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...ed from viewers were concerned with the stations coverage of the same, but he doesnt pro...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e stations coverage of the same, but he doesnt provide with the necessary details rega...
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Line 3, column 430, 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.
... representation of the local incidents. If this is true then the authors argument ...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...cal incidents. If this is true then the authors argument is flawed. He needs to address...
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Line 5, column 123, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'businesses'' or 'business's'?
Suggestion: businesses'; business's
...news, there has been a decline in local businesses advertisement contracts with them. This...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... the decrease in their profit, then the authors assumption will prove to be invalid as ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, regarding, second, so, then, well, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2088.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 408.0 441.139720559 92% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11764705882 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67146968696 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.424019607843 0.468620217663 90% => OK
syllable_count: 621.9 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 86.7107615746 57.8364921388 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.0 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6666666667 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.05555555556 5.70786347227 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.268664748046 0.218282227539 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.089141529015 0.0743258471296 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119975752907 0.0701772020484 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176723334016 0.128457276422 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128734478877 0.0628817314937 205% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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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.