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 would be needed in order to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument argues that for the business of television station to prosper; to attract more viewers to the program and avoid losing any further advertising revenues, the station should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.
Stated in this way, the arguments fails to mention several key aspects on the basis of which it could be evaluated further. To justify this conclusion, the author reasons that they are facing a stampede in their business because of its client retracting from its chanel. However, a careful scrutiny reveals that it provides a little credible support to validate the author claims. Hence, this srgument is incomplete and unsubstantiated.
First of all, the author readily claims that occurence of event happened over year year before and it would likely forsee the same intended effects. This is mere a assumption without a solid ground. For example, one year is a long period and a lot of changes might have occoure. Perhaps, the people have realised that national news is of greater significance rather than local and weather news. Maybe, local news are full of fallacy and scandal and merely severes any useful news. Another reason might be weather news is not so important as in the weather of the place remains constant so, its a moot to have a watch over weather neews. Hence, if the author had provided more convincing reason that the conditions are same this duration and the weather is very unpredictable, it would ahve been more convincing to the readers.
The argument readily assumes the author also cites that what happened for this particular television station would happen to a general case. This again is weak and unsupported claim as it fails to demonstrate a correlation between this particular ancetodal evidence to the general case. To illustrate further, mayble where the television station is situated people might have a strong inclination towards weather and local news over national news. Other business might be doing good as people are happy for such a change as they believe local news is full of scandals.
In conclusion the argument is unpursuasive as it stands. To bolster it further, the author must provide a more concrete evidence, perhaps in the form of detailed survey involving the poll globally. Finally, to better evaluate this claim, it would be better to indicate that there have been no changes happend over one year duration and the demographics of the country should have been mentioned.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: To justify this conclusion, the author reasons that they are facing a stampede in their business because of its client retracting from its chanel.
Error: chanel Suggestion: channel
Sentence: Hence, this srgument is incomplete and unsubstantiated.
Error: unsubstantiated Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: srgument Suggestion: argument
Sentence: First of all, the author readily claims that occurence of event happened over year year before and it would likely forsee the same intended effects.
Error: forsee Suggestion: foresee
Error: occurence Suggestion: occurrence
Sentence: For example, one year is a long period and a lot of changes might have occoure.
Error: occoure Suggestion: occur
Sentence: Perhaps, the people have realised that national news is of greater significance rather than local and weather news.
Error: realised Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: news Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: Maybe, local news are full of fallacy and scandal and merely severes any useful news.
Error: news Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: severes Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: Another reason might be weather news is not so important as in the weather of the place remains constant so, its a moot to have a watch over weather neews.
Error: news Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: neews Suggestion: needs
Sentence: Hence, if the author had provided more convincing reason that the conditions are same this duration and the weather is very unpredictable, it would ahve been more convincing to the readers.
Error: ahve Suggestion: have
Sentence: This again is weak and unsupported claim as it fails to demonstrate a correlation between this particular ancetodal evidence to the general case.
Error: ancetodal Suggestion: ancestral
Sentence: To illustrate further, mayble where the television station is situated people might have a strong inclination towards weather and local news over national news.
Error: news Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: mayble Suggestion: marble
Sentence: Other business might be doing good as people are happy for such a change as they believe local news is full of scandals.
Error: news Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: In conclusion the argument is unpursuasive as it stands.
Error: unpursuasive Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: Finally, to better evaluate this claim, it would be better to indicate that there have been no changes happend over one year duration and the demographics of the country should have been mentioned.
Error: happend Suggestion: No alternate word
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 15 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 413 350
No. of Characters: 2036 1500
No. of Different Words: 206 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.508 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.93 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.534 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.737 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.503 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.474 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.513 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.053 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 79, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: year
...s that occurence of event happened over year year before and it would likely forsee the s...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 163, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...the same intended effects. This is mere a assumption without a solid ground. For ...
^
Line 7, column 449, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...news are full of fallacy and scandal and merely severes any useful news. Another ...
^^
Line 7, column 592, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...ather of the place remains constant so, its a moot to have a watch over weather nee...
^^^
Line 7, column 829, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ve been more convincing to the readers. The argument readily assumes the author ...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, so, for example, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2097.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 413.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07748184019 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60184560883 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506053268765 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 657.0 705.55239521 93% => 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: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.9849252611 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.368421053 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7368421053 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78947368421 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264572745806 0.218282227539 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0770454262718 0.0743258471296 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0789474977442 0.0701772020484 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146075865635 0.128457276422 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0914084332543 0.0628817314937 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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