"The following is taken from a memo from the advertising director of the Super Screen Movie Production Company. "According to a recent report from our marketing department, during the past year, fewer people attended Super Screen-produced movies than in any other year. And yet the percentage of positive reviews by movie reviewers about specific Super Screen movies actually increased during the past year. Clearly, the contents of these reviews are not reaching enough of our prospective viewers. Thus, the problem lies not with the quality of our movies but with the public's lack of awareness that movies of good quality are available. Super Screen should therefore allocate a greater share of its budget next year to reaching the public through advertising."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The recommendation as prescribed in the memo by the advertising director to allocate a greater sum of money for ut the public so as to increase the revenue seems quite apt in certain scenarios but whould fail to convince one as the argument that has been given to justify this recommendation lacks on various grounds. Thus, one can easily cast doubt on various aspects in the argument which needs to be addressed to ensure the concrete base for the recommendation.The argument as presented seems to lack enough proofs in the form of qualitative or quantitative figures and is more of a collection of blatant claims which can be rejected outrightly.
In the opening statement of the memo , as claimed by the director about fewer people attending the movies as compared to past years seems quite incomplete as no further information has been provided to compliment this information so that a conclusion can be made from such a claim . This decrease in people may be due to various reasons like due to relatively greater immigration of the people last year because of greater concerns regarding the safety or can also be the case that the people are not aware enough about the movies despite of the reviews made which is assumed in the argument . Moreover, the area in which these movie theaters are located and the region from where these reviews have been collected is assumed to be the same which may not be the case and such concern of scope of the argument should be taken care off.
The reasoning provided that the problem doesnot lie with the quality of the movies is based on the assumption that the reviews made are genuine enough to be considered for accessing the quality of the movies which may not be the case at the first place and it may happen that these reviews may be paid or corrupted .So,this reasoning can be easily flaked away if ignored. Also,if it is true that the awareness about movies in the public is lacking then this recommendation provided is quite apt but in case if it is not then the recommendation will only lead to wastage of money. Alas,the decrease in the people viewing the movies may also be due to a certain bigger event that took place last year like a natural calamity which has not been addressed inthis argument.Thus representing a narrow view of the director in this memorandum.
So in assessing this argument. I would suggest that the argument should be redressed so as to cover all the aspects which are ignored inthe present statement otherwise the argument may fall apart as soon as it is presented.With the above suggestions the argument and the resoning will get firm grrounds to stand on which surely would help on eto evaluate the argument .
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 475 350
No. of Characters: 2197 1500
No. of Different Words: 205 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.668 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.625 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.591 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 47.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.213 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 1 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.431 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.668 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.119 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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... greater sum of money for ut the public so as to increase the revenue seems quite apt in...
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...he concrete base for the recommendation.The argument as presented seems to lack eno...
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...ws made which is assumed in the argument . Moreover, the area in which these movie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, thus, as to, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2235.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 469.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76545842217 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65364457471 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72630725163 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.445628997868 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 712.8 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 46.0 22.8473053892 201% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 92.4532855014 57.8364921388 160% => OK
Chars per sentence: 223.5 119.503703932 187% => OK
Words per sentence: 46.9 23.324526521 201% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 8.1 5.70786347227 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.108191692093 0.218282227539 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0529251315122 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0512658755351 0.0701772020484 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0654836192794 0.128457276422 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0582951277544 0.0628817314937 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 24.5 14.3799401198 170% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.25 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 20.1 12.197005988 165% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.27 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 28.5 12.3882235529 230% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 20.4 11.1389221557 183% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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