'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.
In the memorandum, the decision taken by the manager to restore the time previously devoted to weather and local news seems quite apt but st the same time do leave space for the opportunists to cast severe doubts on the argument.As evident from the various complaints claimed by the managers regarding the coverage of weather and local news which certainly does not provides adequate supporting proof in order to say so with certainty that the decision taken is quite correct in the given context. Moreover,the retraction of the advertising contracts by the companies which are claimed by the company are not accompanied with the justification for the cause of such a course of action and these revoking of the advertisement contracts in the late-night shows and are assumed to be due to decrease into time for weather news.
In the opening statements of the argument as put forth by the manager, the claim that the complaints regarding the weather and local news is not justifiably accompanied with the relevant quantitative data to back the claim in order to put a concrete case where these complaints may be limited to a certain small region of the country and would not affect the revenues of the company even if ignored for which an adequate weighing of the situation is not presented in the argument. Moreover,it may also be the case that the television station has a unique stance in delivering the local news which do not reciprocate in the national news that is being broadcasted which is cherished by the people. Lastly, it may also happen that there are invesmany news channels which do broadcast the national news but the concerned news channel is the only channel which communicates the weather and local news indifferently.
Apart from these chores ,the revoking of advertisement by the local businesses as stated must be backed with enough qualitative or quantitative data in order to claim the effect is to due to a decrease in timings with certainty.As it may also happenthat the viewership of this late night show is relatively less when compared to the shows broadcasted during the day time as a result of which the investment in these day time shows seems to provide more revenue than advertising in the late night show . These aspects can surely cast doubt on the argument for making claims in the thin air and trying to bring about a policy for personal gains.Alas, the cause of the decision taken by these businesses should be investigated by discussions with them in order to forecast the appropriate course of action.
In concluding this remark about the argument, I would say that the above argument can adequately be strengthened if backed by appropriate figures and redefining the scope of the argument will help to look into previously unexploited corners of the argument.
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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: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 477 350
No. of Characters: 2307 1500
No. of Different Words: 205 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.673 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.836 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.76 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 150 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 53 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 27.039 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.43 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.678 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.169 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 230, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: As
...s to cast severe doubts on the argument.As evident from the various complaints cla...
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Line 1, column 367, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'provide'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: provide
...and local news which certainly does not provides adequate supporting proof in order to s...
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Line 1, column 367, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'provide'
Suggestion: provide
...and local news which certainly does not provides adequate supporting proof in order to s...
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Line 1, column 507, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...e correct in the given context. Moreover,the retraction of the advertising contracts...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eather and local news is not justifiably accompanied with the relevant quantitati...
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Line 5, column 472, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...of the situation is not presented in the argument. Moreover,it may also be the ca...
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Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , it
...not presented in the argument. Moreover,it may also be the case that the televisio...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ifferently. Apart from these chores ,the revoking of advertisement by the loc...
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Suggestion: As
...to a decrease in timings with certainty.As it may also happenthat the viewership o...
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Line 9, column 411, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this day' or 'these days'?
Suggestion: this day; these days
... as a result of which the investment in these day time shows seems to provide more revenu...
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Suggestion: .
... than advertising in the late night show . These aspects can surely cast doubt on ...
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Suggestion: Alas
...bring about a policy for personal gains.Alas, the cause of the decision taken by the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, lastly, look, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, apart from, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 77.0 55.5748502994 139% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2344.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 472.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96610169492 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85438883732 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.447033898305 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 740.7 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 19.7664670659 40% => 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: 59.0 22.8473053892 258% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 117.567467333 57.8364921388 203% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 293.0 119.503703932 245% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 59.0 23.324526521 253% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 11.0 5.70786347227 193% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.272180037703 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125848906788 0.0743258471296 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.084031325338 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151352886925 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0876739601553 0.0628817314937 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 31.5 14.3799401198 219% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 11.59 48.3550499002 24% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.1628742515 181% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 26.3 12.197005988 216% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.43 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.01 8.32208582834 120% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 28.0 12.3882235529 226% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 25.6 11.1389221557 230% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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