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 following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. Primarily the based on unwarranted assumptions like increased national news timing caused so many complains and many advertising companies pull out due to it , etc. rendering its main conclusion to avoid loss and attract customer by giving more time to weather and local news , invalid .
The argument fails to provide any justification that most complaints received from viewers concerned with weather and local news are due to increased time of national news. It has been assumed that number of people who complains reflect the mood of all local people who are watching late-night shows , which in other case would be possible that most people are satisfied with this trend and they are not complaining about it . Also , the number of complains does not mean that there are hundred of complain it can be like there are 3 compalints among them 2 are from people complaining about it. However, had the argument provided information about the reason of complaints from people with coverage of weather and local news could have supported that conclusion to a little extent that increasing local news and weather will attract more viewers .
The arguments leaves many unanswered questions based on that argument that local business that used to advertise during late night news programs have cancel their contracts . Firstly it is not stated that they cancelled contract only because the news channel increased the national news timing . Second , the contracts could have been pulled out because the news channel would have increased the amount of contract for the local businesses which they would have not been able to afford it .
Finally the argument claims without any proof that increasing time to weather and local new will attract many viewers and advertisement from local business because the mode of business by advertising company would have changed in past one year of the time .
As the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions it fails to make a convincing case that increasing the national news time will attract new visitors and attract local advertising businesses .
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 343 350
No. of Characters: 1765 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.304 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.146 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.552 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.182 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.752 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.431 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.431 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.169 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 213, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...advertising companies pull out due to it , etc. rendering its main conclusion to a...
^^
Line 1, column 331, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ving more time to weather and local news , invalid . The argument fails to provid...
^^
Line 1, column 341, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...time to weather and local news , invalid . The argument fails to provide any just...
^^
Line 2, column 299, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...people who are watching late-night shows , which in other case would be possible t...
^^
Line 2, column 424, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...nd and they are not complaining about it . Also , the number of complains does not...
^^
Line 2, column 431, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...they are not complaining about it . Also , the number of complains does not mean t...
^^
Line 2, column 487, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a hundred'.
Suggestion: a hundred
... complains does not mean that there are hundred of complain it can be like there are 3 ...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 846, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ws and weather will attract more viewers . The arguments leaves many unanswered ...
^^
Line 3, column 15, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'leaf', 'leave'.
Suggestion: leaf; leave
... attract more viewers . The arguments leaves many unanswered questions based on that...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 151, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'canceled', 'cancelled'.
Suggestion: canceled; cancelled
...se during late night news programs have cancel their contracts . Firstly it is not sta...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 173, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ews programs have cancel their contracts . Firstly it is not stated that they canc...
^^
Line 3, column 294, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...annel increased the national news timing . Second , the contracts could have been ...
^^
Line 3, column 303, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...reased the national news timing . Second , the contracts could have been pulled ou...
^^
Line 3, column 489, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ey would have not been able to afford it . Finally the argument claims without a...
^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...uld have not been able to afford it . Finally the argument claims without any proof t...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 256, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ave changed in past one year of the time . As the argument makes several unwarra...
^^
Line 5, column 195, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...and attract local advertising businesses .
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1790.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 343.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21865889213 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62549554661 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469387755102 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 546.3 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 57.8342939401 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.166666667 119.503703932 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5833333333 23.324526521 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
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: 0.408642209829 0.218282227539 187% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.172068913629 0.0743258471296 232% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0852704225079 0.0701772020484 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.240787667784 0.128457276422 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301991951129 0.0628817314937 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.3799401198 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.59 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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