The manager claims that it is necessary for WWAC radio station to change its present rock-music format since the number of listeners are declining. However, this argument is too weak to be convincing because it is based on fallacious causality. Stated in this way, the argument reveals leap of faith and poor reasoning. It also fails to mention several key factors based on which it could be evaluated.
Firstly, the manager claims that change of the current rock-music format is important because number of listener is declining. However, this does not necessarily mean that the entire population is actually not interested in music. What we need to know is what is the timing for the rock-music format or what type of songs are being played. The radio station might be playing songs repetitively, which will anyway reduce the number of listeners. Also, the radio station might have changed the timing recently. Probably, the new timing does not suit to the daily routine of the population of the town. In this case, replacing rock-music format with new-and-talk will not fetch a large listener base for the radio station.
Secondly, the manager claimed that the retired population, who oincreased the popu seem to have no interest in music because local music shops selling recorded music have closed down. This assumption is rather based on a imagination than some valid survey statistics. The manager cannot really assume that the shops closed down because the retired population do not have interest in music. The shops might have relocated to different parts or the piracy took a toll on their business. Presently, people have access to music on digital platforms and radio and they prefer to listen music over internet or radio. In this scenario the manager's claim would be proved wrong.
Thirdly, the manager is seen to be looking for alternative solution instead of looking into their own services. The manager should first take a look on his or her own show and determine if it is anymore interesting at all. Probably the radio jockeys, who used to entertain in between the rock-music format, have been replaced and the new recruited radio jockeys are not at par. Hence, WWAC radio station must analyse their own services first before deciding on an alternative solution.
In conclusion, the argument is flawed for the above-mentioned reasons. It could have been strengthened to an extent if the manager provided enough evidence and statistics to support his or her assumption. Without the answers to these questions and evidences, the argument remains unsubstantiated and open to debate.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 427 350
No. of Characters: 2128 1500
No. of Different Words: 211 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.546 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.984 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.588 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 159 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.792 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.813 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.542 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.29 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.505 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.075 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 220, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...own. This assumption is rather based on a imagination than some valid survey sta...
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Line 5, column 238, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...on is rather based on a imagination than some valid survey statistics. The manage...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, anyway, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, really, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2188.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 427.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12412177986 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67631193013 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512880562061 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 683.1 705.55239521 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
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.7759544682 57.8364921388 50% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.1666666667 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7916666667 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.45833333333 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285781163642 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0808106284955 0.0743258471296 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0989116800139 0.0701772020484 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149975025489 0.128457276422 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0693209150623 0.0628817314937 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.12 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => 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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