The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this time period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have just canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The first evidence I would look for is the nature of the complaints from the viewers. The excerpt mentions that the complaints were concerned with the local and weather news, but it does not mention if the complaints were specifically about the duration of the news segments. If there is evidence that viewers are complaining about reduced duration of local and weather news, that would help to strengthen the argument. On the contrary, if the complaints were about the quality of the news, the television station should focus on improving upon that, instead of just increasing the time devoted to these news.
The second evidence that would be required is the complaints from the advertisers. Although the passage mentions complaints from its viewers, there is no mention of the type of complaints that they received from the advertisers. If the feedback from these advertisers is also regarding the limited duration of local and weather news, the argument provided in the memorandum could be considered to be valid.
The third piece of necessary evidence would be a numerical statistic about the number of viewers of the TV show over the past year and the number of viewers in the period before that. If there is evidence of a significant decline in the number of people who viewed the show over the past year, taking their complaints into account may increase the viewer count. Once again, the station would need to confirm that the reason of this reduced number of viewers is actually about the duration of the local and weather news, and not anything else. On the contrary, if the viewer count of the show has not been significantly reduced despite the complaints, the station cannot assume that simply remedying the issues raised by their viewers would increase their audience. In this case, taking the complaints into account would just help them to retain the people who already watch the show.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 320 350
No. of Characters: 1556 1500
No. of Different Words: 134 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.229 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.862 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.491 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.968 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.448 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.601 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.165 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 599, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this news' or 'these newses'?
Suggestion: this news; these newses
... of just increasing the time devoted to these news. The second evidence that would be ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, look, may, regarding, second, so, then, third, on the contrary
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 : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1589.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 320.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.965625 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53960619179 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.44375 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 477.0 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.6502467646 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.416666667 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6666666667 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.83333333333 5.70786347227 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.234374045233 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0939210404534 0.0743258471296 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.074024567345 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16138656105 0.128457276422 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0719383481656 0.0628817314937 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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