"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 cancelled 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 restore the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs to the former level."
The author concludes that they should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. The author's line of view is that this will lead to attract more viewers and avoid losing any further advertising company.However, this argument is not convincing due to a number of reasons and I find it unconvincing in several respects.
First of all, restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level will attract more viewers and advertisers. However it is very likely that even after restoring the time to its former level , they might not get more viewers and may also lose more advertisers.They first need to conduct a proper study and make out a plan to how to retrieve the viewers and advertisers .Hence the author's generalisation is unreliable.
Second of all, a reason that author mentions to restore the time is that most of the complaints received were concerned with their station's coverage of weather and local news telecast. However, the author doesn't provide exact numbers and data for the number of complaints received .Also, the number of complaints in absolute numbers isn't a reliable parameter as proportion of complaints to actual number of users might be very less , for example if the number of complaints is less than 1% of the total number of users , then there's no need to worry as majority of viewers are satisfied with the telecast and have no complaints regarding that.
Thirdly, author states that the local buisnesses who used to advertise during the late night news programs have cancelled their advertisings. However, the author fails to establish a direct relation between the cancellation of advertisings and the time devoted to weather telecasts and local news. Also, author does not give any evidence regarding the same. It might be any other scenerio which led to cancellation of the advertisings such as local buisnesses might have been under a loss due to ongoing economic recession and hence they decided to stop the advertisings. Or,it might be the case that it is in very personal interests of the buisnesses to stop the adverstisings.So until and unless author corroborates the cancellation of advertisings due to the increased time to national news with an evidence , these cancellations might not be strong arguments and reasons.
In conclusion, the argument states is not a strong argument.The author must provide support for the assumption that restoring the time of weather and local news telecast to former level will attract its viewers and restore advertiseres and increase the revenues.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 430 350
No. of Characters: 2112 1500
No. of Different Words: 184 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.554 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.912 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.729 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 150 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 35.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.42 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.917 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.425 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.675 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 232, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
... losing any further advertising company.However, this argument is not convincing due to...
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Line 3, column 131, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...l attract more viewers and advertisers. However it is very likely that even after resto...
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Line 3, column 211, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...r restoring the time to its former level , they might not get more viewers and may...
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Line 3, column 281, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: They
...wers and may also lose more advertisers.They first need to conduct a proper study an...
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Line 3, column 389, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... to retrieve the viewers and advertisers .Hence the authors generalisation is unre...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Hence
...o retrieve the viewers and advertisers .Hence the authors generalisation is unreliabl...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...o retrieve the viewers and advertisers .Hence the authors generalisation is unreliabl...
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Line 3, column 401, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... the viewers and advertisers .Hence the authors generalisation is unreliable. Second...
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Line 5, column 206, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ocal news telecast. However, the author doesnt provide exact numbers and data for the ...
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Line 5, column 281, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ta for the number of complaints received .Also, the number of complaints in absolu...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Also
... for the number of complaints received .Also, the number of complaints in absolute n...
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Line 5, column 334, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...umber of complaints in absolute numbers isnt a reliable parameter as proportion of c...
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Line 5, column 432, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ctual number of users might be very less , for example if the number of complaints...
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Line 5, column 519, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ess than 1% of the total number of users , then theres no need to worry as majorit...
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Line 5, column 527, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: there's
... 1% of the total number of users , then theres no need to worry as majority of viewers...
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Line 7, column 575, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , it
...hey decided to stop the advertisings. Or,it might be the case that it is in very pe...
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Line 7, column 679, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: So
...he buisnesses to stop the adverstisings.So until and unless author corroborates th...
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Line 7, column 811, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...d time to national news with an evidence , these cancellations might not be strong...
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Suggestion: The
...rgument states is not a strong argument.The author must provide support for the ass...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, then, third, thirdly, for example, in conclusion, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2157.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 423.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09929078014 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89144570975 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.446808510638 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 672.3 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 35.0 22.8473053892 153% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 104.430199974 57.8364921388 181% => OK
Chars per sentence: 179.75 119.503703932 150% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.25 23.324526521 151% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0 5.70786347227 193% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 19.0 5.25449101796 362% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295263619205 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139806895224 0.0743258471296 188% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0926146875409 0.0701772020484 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170599829236 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.013689389926 0.0628817314937 22% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.2 14.3799401198 140% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.95 48.3550499002 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.9 12.197005988 139% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 11.1389221557 144% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
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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