The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a listener-supported public radio station.
“For the past year, as part of an effort to broaden our supporter base, our Folk on the Air program has allocated less time to traditional American folk music and more time to Latino music and world music. In recent months, many long-term supporters of our station have written to complain about what they describe as the un-American bias of the program. ln addition, the local newspaper has published a recent editorial critical of our shift in programming. Therefore, in order to forestall any further adverse publicity for the station and to avoid the loss of additional listener-supporters, we should discontinue our current emphasis on Latino and world music and restore the time devoted to traditional American folk music to its former level.”
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The proposed change by the manager seems to be decision done out of haste and with no second thoughts. The evidence provided seems weak as there must be things which were not thought by the manager. The manager must have been pressured by the incoming critical reviews and other distress calls from few of their consumers. So, it would be wise to reassess the situation again, in the below paragraphs I have pointed only few of the weak evidence that the above argument analyses.
In the argument it is stated that many long-time supporters of the station have been complaining about the change in the program. But, the argument lacks number and the word many lacks credibility here as we cannot make a count of actually how many listeners complained. It could have been 10,20 or even a 100. But, if the radio had gained more than 1000 listeners due to change in the program schedule than it is for the best.
It would be a mistake by the management of the radio to discontinue the current changed program. As, it is important to point out that many people listen to latino and world music more than American folk music. So, this change may have led the radio to be more listener friendly as it has most likely gained more listeners than lost them.
As the shifted program has been happening for about a year. we can say that there has been a good response. As this particular radio is a Listener-Supported radio. So, it works because of contributions from its listeners and their support. So, had the program actually tanked with the local audience it would have been evident a long time ago. So, the proposed change will only make a good radio show lose its grip over its audience.
So, I would like to conclude that the manager must reassess the situation and analyse the benefits from the changed situation and take a call with the proposed proposal.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 330 350
No. of Characters: 1493 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.262 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.524 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.446 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 90 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 73 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 22 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.412 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.657 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.332 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.577 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 200, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... which were not thought by the manager. The manager must have been pressured by the...
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Line 7, column 61, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: We
...am has been happening for about a year. we can say that there has been a good resp...
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Line 7, column 109, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
...ay that there has been a good response. As this particular radio is a Listener-Sup...
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Line 7, column 345, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ould have been evident a long time ago. So, the proposed change will only make a g...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ow lose its grip over its audience. So, I would like to conclude that the mana...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, may, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1537.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 330.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.65757575758 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47813023802 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.490909090909 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 478.8 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.74329774 57.8364921388 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.3888888889 119.503703932 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3333333333 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.88888888889 5.70786347227 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161682849452 0.218282227539 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0597986537877 0.0743258471296 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053903596437 0.0701772020484 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0891443591829 0.128457276422 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0476997316441 0.0628817314937 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 14.3799401198 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 12.5979740519 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.16 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 98.500998004 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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