The increased coverage of national news by broadcasters has become a subject of wide interest and scrutiny in the United States as of late. There are those who dispute the fact that decreased coverage of local news has led to local advertisers cancelling their contracts and those who affirm it. There are those who assert that the decrease in coverage has also led to a decrease in quality, and there are those who believe that local businesses have merely suffered from the country's recession. In the preceding statement, the author ineffectively argues that restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level will bring back local advertisers.
Though the claim may well have merit, the author presents a poorly reasoned argument based on several questionable premises and assumptions that do not hold up under a higher level of scrutiny. Based solely on the evidence at hand, we cannot accept this argument to be valid.
The elementary concern with the author's reasoning lies in his unsubstantiated assumptions. Apart from failing to provide a tangible correlation between the businesses refusing to advertise and the decrease in local coverage, the author never provides any evidence for his claim that restoring the previous order would result in the return of said businesses. The author effectively undermines his argument by failing to expand on the links between increased national coverage and local businesses cancelling their advertising contracts he claims exist.
In addition to relying on unfounded hypotheses, the author camouflages his lack of irrefutable evidence by equivocating throughout his argument. The key to understanding what has caused businesses to retreat lies in the complaints that were sent in during the time period in question. By not providing the contents of the correspondence, it is impossible to confirm that this was the sole cause of the problem. The use of ambiguous language guarantees that both the scope and validity of the argument remain unclear.
Notwithstanding the dubious information and logical fallacies, the argument is not completely untenable. If local vendors have moved their business to another television station, it would stand to reason they were not seeing eye to eye with their former network's message and strategy. Furthermore, the television station's pricing system would have to be studied thoroughly in order to properly draw any conclusions. We cannot assume that businesses have abandoned a network based on content alone. It is perfectly reasonable to argue that a decrease in coverage has led to an increase in price for advertising at specific times in the programming schedule. Even though the author's reasoning at present proves problematic, he could further strengthen his argument by conducting more extensive research and addressing several inconsistencies.
In summary, the author's fallacious reasoning is built upon baseless premises and assumptions that render his conclusion as is proves invalid. By failing to address any changes in advertising cost and not observing competing networks, the conclusion proves unsatisfactory and renders the research devoid of legitimate evidence. If the author hopes to present a strong case on the issue, he should restructure his argument and provide clear evidentiary support. Without these revisions, his viewpoint will mostly be negated.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, if, may, so, then, well, apart from, in addition, in summary
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 : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 55.5748502994 137% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2873.0 2260.96107784 127% => OK
No of words: 526.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46197718631 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00963540574 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 204.123752495 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511406844106 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 910.8 705.55239521 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.5215359605 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.913043478 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8695652174 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4347826087 5.70786347227 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.167456812486 0.218282227539 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0460782037411 0.0743258471296 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.056826718028 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0765571641703 0.128457276422 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.064637849349 0.0628817314937 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.41 8.32208582834 113% => OK
difficult_words: 156.0 98.500998004 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 53.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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