The following is a memorandum from the business manager of WLSS television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
The author of the argument has failed to convince us that the television station should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. The argument, as it stands, is based on questionable assumptions and a faulty line of reasoning, a fact which renders it over-simplistic and unconvincing.
First, the author falsely assumes that the decreased time of local and weather news were the main cause of people's complaints. To elaborate on, the author failed to provide more detail about the reason of the complaints and nebulously assumes that it is due to the decreased time. Consequently, other factors could play a role. What if the complaints were about the overall quality of the weather and local news section? What if a new novice reporter has been replaced with an old seasoned one? Not to mention the fact that the viewers could have been complaining about the raised price of the television station cable. What if the mentioned dilemma is just a coincidence? So many other factors, not taken into account, could have a voice in such an issue. As a result, enumerated evidence would dispel any ambiguity and would strengthen the argument.
Next, the author flimsily assumes that in order to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, the station should restore the time to its former level. Again, not providing enough evidence to support his assertion, the author fails to convince the reader. The stated term, regarding advertising contracts, is nebulous and needs scrutiny. So many other factors could have been involved. Maybe the television station did not live up to their partners’ expectation. What if the advertising companies wanted to pay less money for the lower time devoted to local and weather news section, but the television station refused? What if, as said before, the quality of sound and picture, presented to the viewers, had become lower over the past year? As can be seen, so many other issues could have been taken into consideration. If the author has enumerated the evidence above, the argument would have been strengthened.
To conclude, based on substantial assumptions and poor evidence, the arguer's reasoning does not provide concrete support for his/her conclusion. If the argument included the items discussed, it would have been more thorough and convincing.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'consequently', 'first', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.225581395349 0.25644967241 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.176744186047 0.15541462614 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.1 0.0836205057962 120% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0372093023256 0.0520304965353 72% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0209302325581 0.0272364105082 77% => OK
Prepositions: 0.093023255814 0.125424944231 74% => OK
Participles: 0.0604651162791 0.0416121511921 145% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.77580564033 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0372093023256 0.026700313972 139% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.120930232558 0.113004496875 107% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0279069767442 0.0255425247493 109% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0139534883721 0.0127820249294 109% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2337.0 2731.13054187 86% => OK
No of words: 380.0 446.07635468 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.15 6.12365571057 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.57801047555 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.373684210526 0.378187486979 99% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.292105263158 0.287650121315 102% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.192105263158 0.208842608468 92% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.131578947368 0.135150697306 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77580564033 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 207.018472906 91% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494736842105 0.469332199767 105% => OK
Word variations: 53.055595471 52.1807786196 102% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.039408867 110% => OK
Sentence length: 17.2727272727 23.2022227129 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.1713095749 57.7814097925 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.227272727 141.986410481 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2727272727 23.2022227129 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.409090909091 0.724660767414 56% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 46.4832535885 51.9672348444 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.61386138614 1.8405768891 88% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.514259305811 0.441005458295 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0790042063936 0.135418324435 58% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0884960321147 0.0829849096947 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.487912258624 0.58762219726 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.205855896035 0.147661913831 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.198611912952 0.193483328276 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.146749740024 0.0970749176394 151% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.54075249964 0.42659136922 127% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.120337473427 0.0774707102158 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.39043455212 0.312017818177 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102758684001 0.0698173142475 147% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.87684729064 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.82389162562 177% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 14.657635468 130% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.