"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.
In a memo, the director of a production company asserts that since last year, although the number of people attending the movies produced by them decreased, the percentage of positive reviews by the reviewers increased. thus, he concludes that there is no problem with the quality of their content but they need to invest more in in order to reach to more people. However, the author is making some bold assumptions that, if not substantiated, can dramatically weaken the author's argument. The author needs to answer three questions before any compelling case can be made in favour of the argument.
Firstly, what is the guarantee that the profits brought in by implementing this proposal will compensate for the money allocated in the budget ? it might be possible that the money invested in overruns the actual profits it brings to the company. The author presumes that will indeed be the case but doesn't provide any justification or data to substantiate his claim. thus, the author needs to provide answer to the above question before we can come to a solid conclusion.
Secondly, on what premise is the author basing his claim that there is nothing wrong with the quality of the movies being produced? it might be possible that their quality has deteriorated over time which explains the dwindling number of people who came out to watch their movies. it may be possible that people are aware of all this and do not come in huge numbers for their movies. The people may have access to all the online reviews and they come to know of the movie beforehand. The author's assumption is unfounded and if this is proven true, will render the author's claim that there is nothing wrong with the quality of their movies, baseless.
Finally, the author is assuming that the increased percentage of giving positive reviews suggests more people are liking their movies. The author is not taking into the account the fact the number of people attending the movies has also reduced which suggests that only the people who actually like their movies are coming to watch them. The people who are not fond of their movies or those who are inclined to give more negative reviews are not even bothering to watch them.thus, the author needs to find answer to the question that whether their movie quality has decreased and only people who are fans of their movies are coming to watch them.
In a nutshell, the author needs to provide more justification for the assumptions in the argument. he needs to provide answer questions on three fronts: will implementing this proposal not overrun the benefits it brings, whether the quality of their movies have actually deteriorated and whether more positive percentage of reviews actually means they are producing better movies. if the author is not able to answer the above questions, it will render the author's argument unpersuasive at best and specious at worst.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 491 350
No. of Characters: 2363 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.707 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.813 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.463 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 178 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 37.769 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.888 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.419 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.599 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.193 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: in
...ir content but they need to invest more in in order to reach to more people However t...
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Line 1, column 435, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ld assumptions that if not substantiated can dramatically weaken the authors argu...
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Line 1, column 465, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...stantiated can dramatically weaken the authors argument The author needs to answer thr...
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Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... can be made in favour of the argument Firstly what is the guarantee that the p...
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Line 2, column 145, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...te for the money allocated in the budget it might be possible that the money inve...
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Line 2, column 301, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...esumes that will indeed be the case but doesnt provide any justification or data to su...
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Suggestion:
...fore we can come to a solid conclusion Secondly on what premise is the author b...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eople who came out to watch their movies it may be possible that people are aware...
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Line 3, column 488, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ome to know of the movie beforehand The authors assumption is unfounded and if this is ...
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Line 3, column 646, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ith the quality of their movies baseless Finally the author is assuming that the ...
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Line 4, column 112, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
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...g positive reviews suggests more people are liking their movies The author is not taking i...
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Line 4, column 590, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...e quality has decreased and only people who are fans of their movies are coming to watc...
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Line 5, column 156, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'implement'
Suggestion: implement
...e answer questions on three fronts will implementing this proposal not overrun the benefits ...
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Line 5, column 376, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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...y means they are producing better movies if the author is not able to answer the ...
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Line 5, column 453, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... the above questions it will render the authors argument unpersuasive at best and speci...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 28.8173652695 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2370.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 490.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83673469388 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44812570148 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.377551020408 0.468620217663 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 745.2 705.55239521 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 1.0 19.7664670659 5% => 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: 490.0 22.8473053892 2145% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 57.8364921388 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 2370.0 119.503703932 1983% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 490.0 23.324526521 2101% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 90.0 5.70786347227 1577% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 15.0 5.25449101796 285% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.122061694576 0.218282227539 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122061694576 0.0743258471296 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0701772020484 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0776038921023 0.128457276422 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390104109973 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 246.4 14.3799401198 1713% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -417.41 48.3550499002 -863% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.1628742515 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 193.2 12.197005988 1584% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.27 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 30.42 8.32208582834 366% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 53.0 12.3882235529 428% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 198.0 11.1389221557 1778% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 53.0 11.9071856287 445% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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