The following appeared in a memorandum from the general manager of KNOW radio station.
"Several factors indicate that radio station KNOW should shift its programming from rock-and-roll music to a continuous news format. Consider, for example, that the number of people in our listening area over fifty years of age has increased dramatically, while our total number of listeners has declined. Also, music stores in our area report decreased sales of recorded music. Finally, continuous news stations in neighboring cities have been very successful. The switch from rock-and-roll music to 24-hour news will attract older listeners and secure KNOW radio's future."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted
The general manager of KNOW radio station suggests that the radio station KNOW should shift its base from rock-and-roll music to a continuous news format in order to attract its lost older listeners and secure KNOW radio’s future. However, I find the argument logically unconvincing in several aspects.
Firstly the author claims that the reduction in listeners of the radio station is due to the fact that there are more number of people above fifty years of age. This theory seems to overlook the fact that it is not necessarily important that senior people are more interested in listening to radio stations instead of rock-and-roll music. Hence the author has created a weak stereotype mentioning an illogical analogy between increase in number of people above fifty years of age and loss of interest in rock-and-roll music.
Secondly, it is assumed that the decrease in the sales of the music in the music stores will greatly influence the reduction in the no of audience of KNOW radio station. However, there may be some other reasons for less number of sales in the music stores for example the music copies sold in these stores could be highly expensive, bad quality of music copies or there may be less collection of music’s in these stores failing to attract more number of audience. Hence we cannot jump to hasty conclusion of shifting KNOW radio station’s base from rock-and-roll music to continuous news channel.
Finally, the general manager thinks that continuous news stations in neighboring cities have been very successful and so shifting the station’s programming to news format will attract older listeners and secure KNOW radio's future. But we cannot count on this unnecessity assumption as there can be various reasons why the continuous news stations in neighboring cities are successful like they may have better business/promotion plan.
In order to make his point stronger, the manager needs to reinforce/ prove with data as of why its total no of listeners of rock-and roll music has been declined. This will make the argument stronger.
However, with the given assumptions, the argument is ill-considered and fallacious. In conclusion, the manager’s recommendation of shifting to continuous news format for the betterment of the KNOW radio station lends little credible support to his claim.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Hence,
...tations instead of rock-and-roll music. Hence the author has created a weak stereotyp...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'for example', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.30985915493 0.25644967241 121% => OK
Verbs: 0.117370892019 0.15541462614 76% => OK
Adjectives: 0.107981220657 0.0836205057962 129% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0399061032864 0.0520304965353 77% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0258215962441 0.0272364105082 95% => OK
Prepositions: 0.138497652582 0.125424944231 110% => OK
Participles: 0.037558685446 0.0416121511921 90% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.95469047584 2.79052419416 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0305164319249 0.026700313972 114% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0892018779343 0.113004496875 79% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0258215962441 0.0255425247493 101% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00469483568075 0.0127820249294 37% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2370.0 2731.13054187 87% => OK
No of words: 377.0 446.07635468 85% => OK
Chars per words: 6.28647214854 6.12365571057 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.57801047555 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.376657824934 0.378187486979 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.283819628647 0.287650121315 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.206896551724 0.208842608468 99% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.143236074271 0.135150697306 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95469047584 2.79052419416 106% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 207.018472906 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.461538461538 0.469332199767 98% => OK
Word variations: 48.4203067935 52.1807786196 93% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.039408867 70% => OK
Sentence length: 26.9285714286 23.2022227129 116% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.4001529097 57.7814097925 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 169.285714286 141.986410481 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.9285714286 23.2022227129 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.724660767414 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 3.58251231527 195% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 55.3105342933 51.9672348444 106% => OK
Elegance: 2.65384615385 1.8405768891 144% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.585180388969 0.441005458295 133% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.170210948886 0.135418324435 126% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0980074582031 0.0829849096947 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.675440319958 0.58762219726 115% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.180581753264 0.147661913831 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.264461393084 0.193483328276 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.149478634058 0.0970749176394 154% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.314813634208 0.42659136922 74% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.114172376331 0.0774707102158 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.381390661864 0.312017818177 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.130846544468 0.0698173142475 187% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 9.0 6.46551724138 139% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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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