over the past year our late night news program has devoted increased time to time to national news and less time to weather and local news. during this time period , most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news . in addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late night news program have just cancelled their advertising contracts with us. therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.
In the given argument the author is trying to enforce the fact that, by giving so much time on the national news rather than the weather and the local news they loss their contracts from the advertisers and there have been less audience because of their schedule about late night program. The argument is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station and there are impressive fallacies about the argument.
As given, over the past year, their late night news program has devoted increased time to national news rather than weather and local news and this might seen the major problem to the audience whoever are listening or watching their program. By broadcasting or presenting too much news in the late night might cause a boredom to the audience and they have been complaining towards them. The author is trying to say that less viewers because of the earlier program; does not mention about the population ratio on that area. Without counting the population or without doing survey on the population this fact could not be true.
Basically, in the argument there is another doubt too that local businesses that used to advertise during their late night news program had just canceled their advertising contracts. This might seen doubtable because the business manager of the television might not want to give too much interest on the advertising sector while broadcasting the news in the late night news program. If the business manager should restate that the local news and the weather information should broadcast equally to the national news at late night program then that will be laudable and there would be lesser complaints from the viewers and they had not lose any further advertising revenues so the program would go easily.
Therefore there would be some sorts of correction might be essential for not to lose any viewers and no more complaints and not to lose any advertising from the local sectors. Hence, they should restore the time devoted to weather and local news and the national news equally to its former level.
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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: 11 15
No. of Words: 346 350
No. of Characters: 1689 1500
No. of Different Words: 146 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.313 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.882 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.401 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.455 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.758 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.44 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.644 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.14 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 155, Rule ID: PRP_PAST_PART[2]
Message: Did you mean 'have seen' or 'see'?
Suggestion: have seen; see
...n weather and local news and this might seen the major problem to the audience whoev...
^^^^
Line 5, column 421, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun viewers is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... them. The author is trying to say that less viewers because of the earlier program;...
^^^^
Line 9, column 195, Rule ID: PRP_PAST_PART[2]
Message: Did you mean 'have seen' or 'see'?
Suggestion: have seen; see
...their advertising contracts. This might seen doubtable because the business manager ...
^^^^
Line 9, column 637, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'lost'.
Suggestion: lost
...aints from the viewers and they had not lose any further advertising revenues so the...
^^^^
Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...s so the program would go easily. Therefore there would be some sorts of correction...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, if, so, then, therefore, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1727.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 346.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99132947977 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4331140755 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.424855491329 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 518.4 705.55239521 73% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.9670557046 57.8364921388 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 157.0 119.503703932 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.4545454545 23.324526521 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.36363636364 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.372948296334 0.218282227539 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155138886487 0.0743258471296 209% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120449743475 0.0701772020484 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250211772878 0.128457276422 195% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0387493552457 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 98.500998004 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.9071856287 151% => 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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