The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
"Over the past year ,our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news .During this time period,most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news.In addition ,local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night program have just cancelled our advertising contracts with us.Therefore in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues ,we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The given memo is totally flawed for various reasons.The author makes many unwarrented conclusions which totally flaws the memo.
The memo sheds no light on why the late night program started devoting more time to national news and less time to weather and local news.This leaves an unexplained void in the memo.It fails to provide evidence on why more time was devoted to national news.Maybe there was a state wide election going on or some important things going on ,which made them devote more time on national news.There is no explanation on this.
The main point of this argument is the complaints received from the viewers regarding their coverage of weather and local news.The author fails to substantiate why there is a less coverage on weather and local news.Probably,they didn't have trained reporters to cover this news or some other news channel provides better coverage on these issues.So if there is an evidence on another news channel with a late night program which provides a better coverage,this memo is totally flawed.
Since the late night program fails to provides a better coverage on the local news,local businesses rescinded their advertising contracts.The local viewership must have drastically dropped due to their less coverage of local news and because some other program or channel provides a better coverage .So the local business firms might have made a contract with some other channel which has high local residents viewership.If this evidence is provided this would further weaken the argument.
Eventhough they devote less time on weather and local news,there might have been no proper coverage of the news ,which lead to a drop in their viewership.They might not have enough trained reporters to cover those news.So even if they devote more time to weather and local news,without proper reporters they will not be able to provide better coverage even if more time is devoted.The memo provides no information on the reporters and the source ,so this stance also fails.
Even if they devote more time on the coverage of weather and local news,there is no assurance that it would attract more viewers .Now they might be interested in another program or channel which is doing far better.
A survey can be conducted among the local residents to find out what are the aspects that should be improved.Maybe the results of the survey may provide further insight to the issue.
To conclude,the author fails to substantiate proper evidence on what lead to the change in past year.Due to many assumed facts and conclusions,the argument is flawed.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, regarding, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2215.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 422.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24881516588 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75389402512 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.421800947867 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 681.3 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 19.7664670659 40% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 52.0 22.8473053892 228% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 149.744730709 57.8364921388 259% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 276.875 119.503703932 232% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 52.75 23.324526521 226% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 5.15768463074 155% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 36.0 5.25449101796 685% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.343099083395 0.218282227539 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157424039895 0.0743258471296 212% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124860574733 0.0701772020484 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157424039895 0.128457276422 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.124860574733 0.0628817314937 199% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 29.7 14.3799401198 207% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 18.7 48.3550499002 39% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 23.6 12.197005988 193% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.06 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 22.8 11.1389221557 205% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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