The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night 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 and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level."
This argument has many unsupported assumptions. For one, the manager mentions that most of the complaints received were about weather and local news coverage but fails to mention the quantity. The argument also assumes that there is a connection between the lack of weather and local new coverage, to the decrease in advertising contracts. Finally, there fails to be a concrete argument that increasing weather and local news coverage will increase viewership.
The manager states that the station has received complaints that were mostly concerned with the coverage of weather and local new. But the number of complaints were never given. If there were only a small amount of complaints then it wouldn't accurately represent the feelings of its viewers. Thus it would be unwise to change the late-night news program to cater to the minority while ignoring the majority. In order to strength the argument, the manager should give a number of complaints rather than just the proportion.
It is assumed that the decrease in the local business advertisement is due to the decrease in local news and weather coverage. This fails to account for any other factors that could influence advertising revenues. A reasonable factor could be that the local businesses no longer have the budget necessary for advertisement. This would decrease advertising revenues regardless of the contents during the late-night news program. If there were complaints directly from the local businesses stating that the lack of local and weather coverage was the reasons that they discontinued businesses then their argument would have merit.
At last, as an attempt to attract more views and avoid losing further advertising revenues, the manager suggests a solution to the problem---the program should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. Unfortunately, the solution has no support. If there are not many complaints about the coverage or there are other reasons for the loss of advertising revenues, the proposed solution would have no effect.
For all these reasons, the manager's assumptions and thus solution does not have adequate support.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 180, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... number of complaints were never given. If there were only a small amount of compl...
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Line 3, column 236, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...ly a small amount of complaints then it wouldnt accurately represent the feelings of it...
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Line 3, column 294, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... represent the feelings of its viewers. Thus it would be unwise to change the late-n...
^^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.261455525606 0.25644967241 102% => OK
Verbs: 0.148247978437 0.15541462614 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.088948787062 0.0836205057962 106% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0485175202156 0.0520304965353 93% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0188679245283 0.0272364105082 69% => OK
Prepositions: 0.10781671159 0.125424944231 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0296495956873 0.0416121511921 71% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.78289003252 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0350404312668 0.026700313972 131% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.132075471698 0.113004496875 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0242587601078 0.0255425247493 95% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00539083557951 0.0127820249294 42% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2161.0 2731.13054187 79% => OK
No of words: 342.0 446.07635468 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.31871345029 6.12365571057 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.57801047555 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.391812865497 0.378187486979 104% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.336257309942 0.287650121315 117% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.248538011696 0.208842608468 119% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.131578947368 0.135150697306 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78289003252 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 207.018472906 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.46783625731 0.469332199767 100% => OK
Word variations: 47.6753968425 52.1807786196 91% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.2022227129 82% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3133760744 57.7814097925 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.055555556 141.986410481 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.2022227129 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.444444444444 0.724660767414 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 52.6257309942 51.9672348444 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.85 1.8405768891 101% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.520960568994 0.441005458295 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.14120582253 0.135418324435 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0680916452458 0.0829849096947 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.601235585516 0.58762219726 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.177233286931 0.147661913831 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.222219211401 0.193483328276 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111850087686 0.0970749176394 115% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.454372470911 0.42659136922 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.119308177389 0.0774707102158 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.338255000916 0.312017818177 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117197001674 0.0698173142475 168% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.33743842365 36% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.87684729064 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 2.0 6.46551724138 31% => OK
Negative topic words: 12.0 5.36822660099 224% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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