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. In 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."
The writer of the argument concludes that the radio station should stop world music and Latino then should start broadcasting only American music. However, this conclusion cannot be accepted because it rests on a number of premises all of which can be challenged in one way or another.
The first problem with the argument is that the writer assumes as there were some complaints about broadcasting un-American music there will be reduction in listeners of that radio station. However, it cannot show that there is reduction in radio listeners. Maybe they want more American music in a way that they enjoy world music or Latino too. Therefore, as a result of omitting every kinds of music from the list of broadcasting apart from American music the number of listeners may not be augmented. Maybe they should add more American music in addition to other kinds of music.
The second issue with the argument is that the writer writes about the long-term supporters of the radio station but not the ordinary people, so there is no evidence to show public do not like the kinds of music which is broadcasting. Maybe the supporters' tastes are different from ordinary people and they reflected only their private opinion. Hence the critics cannot be accepted.
The third problem with the argument is that the writer of the argument thinks recent complains are reliable that they should change the programs according to them. However, in the statement it is mentioned that these kinds of music have been broadcasted through past year, while the complaints are dedicated to recent months. Maybe the bad quality of other programs in recent months led to dissatisfaction and it cannot be completely related to music tastes of people.
To conclude, the writer's conclusion cannot be taken to be correct because, as it was shown in the body paragraphs above, it depends on a number of assumption each of which is questionable. The conclusion can only be accepted if the weaknesses already referred to are all removed.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 336 350
No. of Characters: 1642 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.281 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.887 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.581 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 116 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.995 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.733 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.371 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.607 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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The writer of the argument concludes tha...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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... be challenged in one way or another. The first problem with the argument is t...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... in addition to other kinds of music. The second issue with the argument is th...
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Line 5, column 351, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
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Suggestion: Hence,
...y reflected only their private opinion. Hence the critics cannot be accepted. ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...Hence the critics cannot be accepted. The third problem with the argument is t...
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Suggestion:
...y related to music tastes of people. To conclude, the writers conclusion cann...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...es of people. To conclude, the writers conclusion cannot be taken to be correc...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...es already referred to are all removed.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, third, while, apart from, in addition, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1680.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 336.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64706168926 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.46130952381 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 522.9 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => 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: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6588811338 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.0 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.73333333333 5.70786347227 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
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: 0.0987252359958 0.218282227539 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0380075026825 0.0743258471296 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0328899151476 0.0701772020484 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.057599948316 0.128457276422 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0387977785683 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.