evidence to nevaluate an argument and how the evidence strenghthens or weakens the argument
The argument is that the television station should devote more time to local and weather news as it has previously done to attract more viewers and avoid losing any further advertising revenues. While the manager comes to a reasonable conclusion, the argument made to reach this conclusion is flawed.
First, the manager appears to believe that there is a direct tie between the decreased time devoted to local/weather news and loss of viewers. Although this is plausible, could it also be the case that another television sation was created during this time which is more appealing to viewers? Evidence showing this will render the conclusion invalid. Also, there is no data showing that the reduced time dedicated to showing local and weather news is responsible for the loss of advertising revenues. Without this information in place, the argument made by the managers is pretty unconvincing.
Furthermore, the manager merely assumes that restoring the time dedicated to local and weather news will attaract more viewers. The manager however did not consider that its possible that viewers have lost interest in local and weather new. Any piece of nformation proving this to be the case would render the conlusion erroneous.
While the aforementioined assumptions are certainly enough to question the validity of this conclusion, the argument contains other quite unwarranted assumptions. For example, the argument also believes that local businesses cancelled their contracts because of the reduced time dedicated to showing local and weather news. Perhaps the businesses went bankrupt or had no more need for the advertisements. Evidence proving this to be true will seriously jeopardize the conclusion of this argument.
However, the manager can streghthen his case if he provides data cited from reputable or reliable sources while also being statistically significant or sufficiently representative that demonstrates causation between the reduced time devoted to local\weather news and loss of viewers and advertising revenues. With this data, his conclusion not only becomes plausible, but convincing.
This lithany of unsupported assumptions renders the argument baseless and there is no guarantee that restoring the time devoted to local and weather news will attract more viewers and prevent loss of advertising revenues.
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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: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 359 350
No. of Characters: 1941 1500
No. of Different Words: 167 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.353 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.407 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.834 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 148 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 136 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.118 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.818 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.365 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.6 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.061 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, then, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1991.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 358.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.56145251397 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94715506547 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.474860335196 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 625.5 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.783124593 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.117647059 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0588235294 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23529411765 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.102469715342 0.218282227539 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0464731474357 0.0743258471296 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0566284834433 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0666994850693 0.128457276422 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0575625716952 0.0628817314937 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.5979740519 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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