The business manager believed that in order to attract more audience and avoid losing possible advertising revenues, the television station should expand the range of weather and local news on all news programs based on the complaints about the coverage of weather and local news and the decline of numbers of local businesses willing to advertise. However, the assumptions made in the argument are unreliable and unreasonable. To examine the argument, we need more information to assess these assumptions.
According to the manager, most complaints received from viewers are about the coverage of weather and local news. Assuming that they complain about the limited range of these news, he think the station need to focus more on these news. However, there is a possibility that the number of complaints is quite small, and there is no need to change the content of programs because of the small number of complaints. Perhaps most audience are satisfied with current arrangement of the structure of news. In addition, maybe the complaints still focus on the relatively big range of weather and local news, so viewers wish to cut the time down. In that case, the argument is flawed and it may be wrong to increase these news.
Local businesses canceled their contacts with the television station recently, and the manager think that it is because the limited range of weather and local news. But maybe there is a new television program that is better than the current one, so many local businesses try to advertise during the new program. It is possible that the prices of advertising during the manager’s late-night news program have increased significantly in the last year so businesses decide not to continue their contacts. The assumption that the decrease is due to the content of news programs is not strong enough and we still need to collect more information to examine the assumption.
The manager also suggests that they should expand their coverage of weather and local news on all new programs. It is assumed that this behaviour is feasible and will result in more viewers and revenues. However, it might be impossible to add these news to all new programs. For example, it may be unreasonable to add weather news to sporting news. And the complaints received and decrease in revenues are about the late-night programs. Maybe most audience are satisfied with other kinds of programs, so it might be unreasonable and counterproductive to expend their coverage of these news on all new programs.
In conclusion, the argument is based on some unreliable assumptions and we still need to collect more information to examine these assumptions to assess the validity of the argument.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 445 350
No. of Characters: 2207 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.593 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.96 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.713 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.251 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.361 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.541 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.11 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 170, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this news' or 'these newses'?
Suggestion: this news; these newses
...hey complain about the limited range of these news, he think the station need to focus mor...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 185, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'thinks'.
Suggestion: thinks
...out the limited range of these news, he think the station need to focus more on these...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 225, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this news' or 'these newses'?
Suggestion: this news; these newses
...think the station need to focus more on these news. However, there is a possibility that t...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 708, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this news' or 'these newses'?
Suggestion: this news; these newses
... flawed and it may be wrong to increase these news. Local businesses canceled their con...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 244, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this news' or 'these newses'?
Suggestion: this news; these newses
... However, it might be impossible to add these news to all new programs. For example, it ma...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 580, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this news' or 'these newses'?
Suggestion: this news; these newses
...rproductive to expend their coverage of these news on all new programs. In conclusion, ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, still, for example, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2261.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 445.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0808988764 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79127900433 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.370786516854 0.468620217663 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 705.6 705.55239521 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.6682809568 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.05 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.25 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.95 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.384317046204 0.218282227539 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127603157838 0.0743258471296 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0910900387283 0.0701772020484 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.218082480348 0.128457276422 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11734355364 0.0628817314937 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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